Farm Planning Consultants in Wiltshire

Big skies, big farms and bigger ambitions in Wiltshire

You farm the chalk downs, Salisbury Plain or the dairy vales of the north and west. You want modern grain stores and livestock housing, a new life for old barns and income that keeps the farm strong. A farm planning consultant in Wiltshire can help you get the approvals to make it happen.

The planning obstacles in your path

Almost half of Wiltshire sits within National Landscapes, alongside the Stonehenge and Avebury World Heritage Site and phosphate rules in the River Avon catchment. That gives councils plenty of reasons to delay or refuse. Farmers are asked for heritage, landscape and nutrient evidence and still face long waits. It is a frustrating process for businesses that have farmed this land for generations.

A guide who knows Wiltshire's constraints

We know how it feels to have a good scheme held up by layer upon layer of policy. Foxes Rural is a specialist farm planning consultancy serving Wiltshire farms. We work on agricultural permitted development, Class Q, Class R and full planning every day, and we tackle landscape, heritage and nutrient issues early so they do not sink your application. Our approval rate is 95%.

How we get you there

1. Ring 01206 481981. Tell us what your Wiltshire farm needs.
2. We map out the route. We identify every constraint and the application most likely to succeed.
3. We deal with Wiltshire Council. We submit, respond and negotiate until you have your answer.

Wiltshire farming areas we cover

• Salisbury Plain
• The Vale of Pewsey
• The Marlborough Downs and the Kennet valley
• The North Wessex Downs National Landscape
• Cranborne Chase and the Nadder valley
• The Wylye valley
• The north Wiltshire vales around Malmesbury and Wootton Bassett
• West Wiltshire around Trowbridge, Westbury and Warminster
• The Cotswolds edge around Castle Combe and Corsham
• The rural fringe of Swindon

We help farmers around Salisbury, Swindon, Chippenham, Trowbridge, Devizes, Marlborough, Warminster, Melksham, Calne, Corsham, Malmesbury, Royal Wootton Bassett, Amesbury, Westbury and Bradford on Avon, and in villages such as Pewsey, Tisbury, Mere, Ramsbury, Aldbourne, Great Bedwyn, Urchfont, Lacock, Downton and the Collingbournes.

Wiltshire's great estates and family farms

Wiltshire has a long tradition of landed estates, including Longleat, the Wilton Estate, Bowood and Savernake Forest, farming alongside family businesses on the downs and in the vales. Many Wiltshire farmers also head to the Royal Bath and West Show just over the Somerset border each summer. Those estates have adapted their land and buildings over centuries, and your farm can do the same.

Choosing who guides you

Wiltshire farmers can take advice from firms such as Savills, Strutt & Parker, Carter Jonas, Symonds & Sampson and The Rural Planning Practice. Foxes Rural offers something more focused: a team that does nothing but farm planning and is measured on approvals alone.

What standing still costs

Outdated buildings slow the business down, empty barns lose value and nutrient and landscape rules are only getting tighter. A rushed or poorly evidenced application can be refused and harder to fix.

The Wiltshire farm you are aiming for

Picture the right buildings on the downs, converted barns bringing in income and a farm ready for the next generation. Call Foxes Rural on 01206 481981 to get your Wiltshire project started.