Farm Planning Consultants in North Yorkshire

England's biggest county, and its farms

North Yorkshire is farming on a grand scale. Sheep and beef work the Dales and the moors, dairy herds graze the lowland valleys, and the Vale of York and the Vale of Pickering grow wheat, barley, sugar beet and potatoes. You might need a new cattle building, a grain store, a second home on the farm for family or a holiday business in a stone barn. With a farm planning consultant in North Yorkshire on board, the clearest path to approval comes into view.

The constraints you are up against

The 2 National Parks, the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors, have their own planning authorities and strict rules. Nidderdale and the Howardian Hills are National Landscapes, and the Green Belt around York holds back development round the city. The Ouse, the Swale, the Ure and the Derwent all bring flood risk, and stone farmsteads raise heritage questions.

Every extra report and every month of waiting drains you. Families who shaped these landscapes deserve better than a fight to keep farming them.

A guide who knows protected landscapes

We know how difficult it is to plan ahead when the answer could take a year. Our consultancy covers rural planning only, and only for farmers and landowners. Our everyday work is agricultural permitted development, Class Q, Class R and full planning, and the way National Park and National Landscape policy treat farm buildings is familiar ground. Our applications succeed 95% of the time.

Your North Yorkshire plan, 3 steps

1. Call 01206 481981. Outline your holding, your stock and the scheme on your mind.
2. We build the strategy. We check National Park, landscape, Green Belt, flood and heritage issues before we commit to an approach.
3. We manage the council. The application goes to the right authority, prepared and submitted by us, and we see it through to a decision.

Authorities and landscapes we cover

• North Yorkshire Council
• City of York Council
• Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
• North York Moors National Park Authority
• Nidderdale National Landscape
• Howardian Hills National Landscape
• The York Green Belt
• The Vale of York and the Vale of Pickering

We help farms around Thirsk, Northallerton, Bedale, Ripon, Richmond, Leyburn, Hawes, Skipton, Settle, Malton, Pickering, Helmsley, Easingwold, Selby and Tadcaster. The Great Yorkshire Show at Harrogate is the county's farming showcase every July. Farming next door? See our pages for Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire, County Durham, Cumbria and Lancashire.

Famous names from North Yorkshire land

Wensleydale cheese is still made at the Wensleydale Creamery in Hawes, at the head of the dale that gave it its name. Castle Howard's estate shapes the farmland of the Howardian Hills. Land here has built businesses known around the world, and your farm can build on it too.

Specialists, not general agents

North Yorkshire landowners often use Cundalls in Malton, Lister Haigh in Knaresborough or Hardcastle Rural Surveyors at Kirkby Malzeard near Ripon for sales, lettings and valuations. Our firm handles farm planning exclusively, so specialists are on your scheme from the very first call.

The cost of a wrong decision

A refusal inside a National Park is hard to turn around and stays on the record. Unauthorised work brings enforcement and a bill to undo it. And every season lost means income and family plans put on hold.

Your North Yorkshire farm, approved

Picture the new shed full of cattle, the barn welcoming visitors and a new farmhouse for the next generation. Call Foxes Rural on 01206 481981 and make a start.