Farm Planning Consultants in Surrey

Farming close to London, with ambitions to match

Farming in Surrey means working valuable land a short drive from millions of customers. You may want to replace tired buildings, open a farm shop, add stabling or give a redundant barn a commercial future. A farm planning consultant in Surrey helps you turn that opportunity into consent.

The Green Belt wall

Most of rural Surrey lies in the Metropolitan Green Belt, and the Surrey Hills National Landscape covers much of the rest of the open countryside. The Thames Basin Heaths add strict ecology tests in the west of the county. Officers start from caution, neighbours watch every change and farmers find that even a modest building can turn into a long argument. Working farms deserve better than being treated as a threat to the view.

A guide who knows Green Belt farming

We know how disheartening it is to be told a farm building is inappropriate development. Foxes Rural works only for farmers and landowners, and we know the exceptions that national Green Belt policy makes for agriculture and forestry, as well as agricultural permitted development, Class Q, Class R and full planning. With a 95% approval rate, we give your scheme the strongest footing.

How we get you to yes, in 3 steps

1. Call 01206 481981. Tell us about the farm and the change you have in mind.
2. We shape the case. We assess Green Belt, landscape and ecology issues and pick the best route.
3. We see it through. We submit, negotiate and respond to every request until there is a decision.

Surrey areas we serve

• Guildford
• Waverley
• Mole Valley
• Tandridge
• Reigate and Banstead
• Surrey Heath and Runnymede
• Elmbridge, Woking and Epsom and Ewell
• The Surrey Hills National Landscape
• The Low Weald around Cranleigh and Lingfield

We help farms near Guildford, Farnham, Godalming, Haslemere, Cranleigh, Dorking, Reigate, Oxted, Lingfield, Leatherhead, Chertsey, Shere, Chiddingfold and Ewhurst, and we know the farming families who meet at the Edenbridge and Oxted Agricultural Show each August.

Surrey's farming entrepreneurs

Surrey shows what happens when farmland is allowed to work hard. Denbies Wine Estate near Dorking grew into one of the largest single vineyards in England, Garsons near Esher built a thriving pick your own and farm shop business and estates such as Loseley Park near Guildford have long combined farming with enterprise. Your farm can follow the same path with the right consents in place.

Specialists, not generalists

Surrey landowners often use firms such as Savills, Strutt & Parker, Knight Frank, Carter Jonas and Batcheller Monkhouse. Foxes Rural is not an estate agency. Farm planning is our only line of work, so your scheme gets dedicated attention.

The price of a refusal

In the Green Belt a refusal or enforcement case can knock real value off your land and make future applications harder. Waiting rarely helps when pressure on Surrey land keeps rising.

A farm ready for the future

Picture modern buildings, a busy farm shop or rented barns and a business that suits its place on London's doorstep. Call Foxes Rural on 01206 481981 to get going.