Farm Planning Consultants in the South
You want to grow your farm business. We help you get permission to do it.
Across Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire and Buckinghamshire, farmers are looking for new ways to make their land work harder. Maybe it is a new livestock building, an empty barn with potential or a plan to let out yard space. Whatever your ambition, a farm planning consultant in the South can help you turn it into an approval.
The obstacle in your way
The planning process across the South is slow, cautious and full of hurdles. Protected landscapes, Green Belt around Oxford and the Thames valley and councils under heavy pressure from housing all add delay. Farmers are asked for more and more information, then refused on narrow grounds. It leaves good farm businesses stuck, unable to invest or adapt. Farmers should have the freedom to run a modern business on their own land.
We have been where you are
Foxes Rural knows what it is like to deal with a planning department that does not understand farming. We are rural planning consultants who work only for farmers and landowners. We use agricultural permitted development, Class Q, Class R and full planning to secure approvals other advisers write off, and we maintain a 95% approval rate across the UK.
The plan
- Pick up the phone. Call 01206 481981 and talk through your farm and your goals.
- Receive your strategy. We identify the right planning route and the evidence it needs.
- Leave the council to us. We submit, chase, negotiate and keep going until you have a decision.
Farming districts we cover across the South
- West Oxfordshire
- Cherwell
- South Oxfordshire
- Vale of White Horse
- West Berkshire
- Wiltshire
- Swindon
- Aylesbury Vale
- Wycombe and the Chilterns
- The Basingstoke area
Our farm planning consultants work with farmers around Oxford, Banbury, Witney, Chipping Norton, Wantage, Newbury, Reading, Swindon, Marlborough, Devizes, Salisbury, Aylesbury and High Wycombe, and alongside the farming families who turn out each year at the Royal County of Berkshire Show in Newbury.
The farms putting the South on the map
Few farms have done more to show the public what farming and diversification really involve than Clarkson's Farm at Diddly Squat near Chadlington in Oxfordshire. Its battles with the planning system made national headlines and showed millions of viewers how hard it can be to get a farm shop, a car park or a restaurant approved. Alongside it sit landmark estates and major arable businesses across Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire and Buckinghamshire. If planning can trip up the most famous farm in Britain, it pays to have the right guide.
Picking your planning partner
Farmers in the South can take advice from firms such as Carter Jonas, Savills, Acorus, The Rural Planning Co and The Rural Planning Practice. What makes Foxes Rural different is that we only do farm planning, and we measure ourselves on one thing: the approvals we win for working farms.
The risk of standing still
Leave it too long and the opportunity can disappear. Rules change, councils tighten their policies and buildings fall further into disrepair. A poorly prepared application can be refused and make the next attempt harder.
Where you could be
Picture a farm with the buildings it needs, a new income stream and a business ready for the next generation. Call Foxes Rural on 01206 481981 to get your southern project started.
Planning Permission for Farms Across the South
From the Cotswolds edge to the Chilterns, we help farmers win the planning permission their businesses need. Call Foxes Rural on 01206 481981 and let us show you the clearest path to a yes.
