Farm Planning Consultants in Worcestershire

Growing more from Worcestershire land

Worcestershire farmers grow fruit, vegetables, hops and cereals, and the Vale of Evesham remains one of the country's great growing areas. You might need a packhouse, polytunnels, a cold store, worker accommodation or a new life for a hop kiln or barn. A farm planning consultant in Worcestershire helps you secure permission to grow.

The barriers growers keep hitting

The Malvern Hills National Landscape, the edge of the Cotswolds, West Midlands Green Belt in the north and flood plains along the Severn, Avon and Teme all shape decisions. Horticultural buildings and seasonal worker housing often meet resistance on landscape and amenity grounds. Growers face long delays and refusals that ignore how fresh produce has to be grown, stored and packed.

Specialist help for farmers and growers

A crop ripens on its own timetable, not the council's, and we know how costly that gap can be. Our team advises growers and farmers exclusively. Prior approvals under Part 6, barn conversions under Class Q and Class R and full applications are our daily work, as is arguing for glasshouses, tunnels and packhouses where landscape is sensitive. Our approval rate is 95%.

The 3 step route

1. Pick up the phone to 01206 481981. Describe the site and the building you have in mind.
2. We set out the options. We check landscape, flood and Green Belt issues and choose the best application.
3. We manage the council. We prepare, submit and negotiate until you have a decision.

Worcestershire areas we cover

• Wychavon
• Malvern Hills District
• Wyre Forest
• Bromsgrove
• Redditch
• The Malvern Hills National Landscape
• The Vale of Evesham
• The Teme valley
• The Severn and Avon valleys

We help farms near Evesham, Pershore, Upton upon Severn, Tenbury Wells, Bewdley, Kidderminster, Droitwich, Bromsgrove, Broadway, Malvern and Worcester, and we meet many of the county's growers at Malvern each June for the Three Counties Show.

Famous for fruit and vegetables

Worcestershire is known for Vale of Evesham asparagus and plums, and for growers who supply shops across the country. Clive's Fruit Farm near Upton upon Severn built a popular pick your own and farm shop, while historic estates such as Spetchley and Madresfield still farm the county today. Each needed buildings and consent to keep growing. Your farm can do the same.

Planning advice from specialists

Worcestershire landowners often use firms such as McCartneys, Andrew Grant, Halls, Savills and Strutt & Parker. Foxes Rural concentrates on farm planning alone, so your scheme gets a specialist's full attention.

What waiting costs

Without consent for a packhouse, produce has nowhere to go, and tunnels put up on the wrong basis can be ordered down. The longer you wait, the more income slips away.

Picture the result

See new stores and packhouses busy at harvest, a hop kiln converted and earning and a business ready for the next generation. Call Foxes Rural on 01206 481981 to begin.