Farm Planning Consultants in Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire farming, your way forward

Gloucestershire runs from the Cotswold uplands through the Severn Vale to the Forest of Dean. The hills are arable and livestock country, while the vale carries dairy, cattle, orchards and horticulture. Perhaps you need a new livestock building, a store for machinery, a house so the family can stay on the farm, or a fresh purpose for a stone barn. Choosing a farm planning consultant in Gloucestershire gives you a clear route from idea to approval.

Where Gloucestershire plans run into trouble

Most of the Cotswolds National Landscape lies in Gloucestershire, and the Malvern Hills and Wye Valley National Landscapes reach into the west of the county. A band of Green Belt keeps Gloucester and Cheltenham apart, mostly within Tewkesbury Borough. The Severn and its tributaries bring serious flood risk, as the floods of 2007 showed, and the Severn Estuary and the Cotswold beechwoods carry habitat protection. Then come the conservation areas and listed buildings that fill Cotswold villages. With a single new unitary council due in April 2028, the rules never seem to settle.

Requests for extra reports, slow validation and refusals on narrow points wear you down. Keeping a working farm working ought not to mean a running battle with the system.

Specialists in farm planning, and nothing else

Waiting months for an answer that shapes your farm's future is hard, and we see it every week. Our consultancy specialises in rural planning, with a client list made up entirely of farmers and landowners. Agricultural permitted development, Class Q, Class R and full planning are what we handle, and we know how Cotswold design expectations, Severn floodplain policy and Green Belt tests shape a Gloucestershire application. We secure approval for 95% of the schemes we take on.

3 steps to your Gloucestershire consent

1. Ring 01206 481981. Describe your enterprise and the change you are planning.
2. We shape the strategy. We work through the landscape, flood, heritage and habitat issues on your land before anything goes in.
3. We handle the council. Our team writes and lodges the application, then keeps talking to the planning officer until a decision is issued.

Covering every corner of Gloucestershire

• Cotswold District Council
• Stroud District Council
• Forest of Dean District Council
• Tewkesbury Borough Council
• Cheltenham Borough Council
• Gloucester City Council
• Cotswolds National Landscape
• Wye Valley National Landscape
• Malvern Hills National Landscape
• The Severn Vale

We support farms around Cirencester, Tetbury, Northleach, Chipping Campden, Fairford, Lechlade, Tewkesbury, Newent, Coleford and Lydney. The Moreton Show, held each September on the Batsford Estate near Moreton in Marsh, and the Royal Three Counties Show at Malvern in June are high points of the farming year. Farming next door? See Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire, or read about our wider South West coverage.

Proof of what Gloucestershire land can do

Some of the best known farm businesses in the country call Gloucestershire home. Daylesford Organic near Kingham farms organically and runs a farm shop and café. Adam Henson's Cotswold Farm Park at Guiting Power has shown visitors its rare breeds since 1971. Charles Martell & Son at Dymock makes Stinking Bishop and Double Gloucester cheese. Your own holding has that same potential.

Your application, our only focus

Many Gloucestershire landowners use rural agents such as Moore Allen & Innocent, Strutt & Parker, Savills and Bruton Knowles, with offices in Cirencester and Gloucester. Farm planning is the only service we offer, so your scheme never waits its turn behind other kinds of work.

When a Gloucestershire scheme goes wrong

A weak application in the Cotswolds can be refused on landscape grounds, and a poorly judged scheme on the Severn floodplain may never pass the flood risk tests. Build without consent and enforcement can follow. Wait too long and the barn deteriorates, the opportunity passes and the cost of every report rises.

What approval could look like

Think of the livestock building finished, the stone barn bringing in a steady rent and your successor settled in a house beside the yard. Your land is working harder and your future feels secure. Call Foxes Rural on 01206 481981 and let us get started.