Farm Planning Consultants in Staffordshire
Your Staffordshire farm, ready for its next chapter
You milk cows in the Moorlands, run beef and sheep on the hills or farm arable land in the Trent valley. Either way, you need buildings that keep pace with the business and the freedom to make use of what you already have. A farm planning consultant in Staffordshire can help you get the green light.
The council process that stands in your way
Staffordshire farmers are squeezed between Green Belt around Stoke on Trent and the West Midlands, the Peak District to the north and Cannock Chase National Landscape in the middle. Each brings extra hoops. Councils ask for more evidence, take longer to decide and refuse schemes that make perfect sense on a working farm. Good farmers end up waiting, worrying and losing money.
The guide Staffordshire farmers need
We know how it feels to be stuck in planning limbo. Foxes Rural is a rural planning consultancy that only works with farmers and landowners. We handle agricultural permitted development, Class Q, Class R and full planning for dairy, livestock and arable farms, and we know how to answer Green Belt and landscape objections. Our 95% approval rate shows the difference expert preparation makes.
Getting started is simple
- Phone 01206 481981. Tell us about your farm and your plans.
- We work out the best route. Prior approval, Class Q, Class R or full planning, we find what fits.
- We see it through to the end. We manage the application and the council until you have a decision.
Staffordshire districts we cover
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- East Staffordshire
- Stafford
- South Staffordshire
- Lichfield
- Newcastle under Lyme
- Cannock Chase
- Tamworth
- The rural fringe of Stoke on Trent
- The Staffordshire edge of the Peak District
We help farms around Stafford, Stoke on Trent, Leek, Cheadle, Uttoxeter, Stone, Eccleshall, Burton upon Trent, Lichfield, Rugeley, Cannock and Tamworth, in a county whose farmers come together every year at the Staffordshire County Show.
Staffordshire's estates and farming families
Staffordshire's farming landscape is shaped by historic estates such as Shugborough, the Sandon Estate and Weston Park on the Shropshire border, alongside dairy and livestock families across the Moorlands and the Dove valley and long running local events such as the Leek Show. Those businesses have adapted for generations. Yours can too, with the right permission in place.
Choose a guide who only does farm planning
Staffordshire farmers can go to firms such as Bagshaws, Fisher German, Acorus, The Rural Planning Co and The Rural Planning Practice. Foxes Rural is different: we are rural planning consultants first and last, focused entirely on getting your farm the consent it needs.
Do not let the opportunity slip
Delay means another winter in buildings that do not work, more value lost in empty barns and more risk if work starts without the right consent.
Your farm, sorted
Picture the new dairy unit up and running, the old barn earning and a business with a clear future. Call Foxes Rural on 01206 481981 to get going.
Staffordshire Farmers: Let Us Win Your Planning Case
From the Moorlands to the Trent valley, we help Staffordshire farmers get the planning approval their businesses need. Call Foxes Rural on 01206 481981 and let us handle the council for you.
