Updates to Permitted Development Rights: Class Q, Class R and Agricultural Development

Rural Housing: Changes to Class Q: Class Q is a Permitted Development Right allowing the conversion of all types of agricultural buildings to dwellings. Under the updated Class Q legislation, you can now: The policy includes a year long grace period during which time, Class Q developments which no longer accord with the new criteria […]
Farm Diversification – Looking for a Low-Cost, Low-Risk Planning Option?

We are often asked in the Rural Planning Department if you have to be wealthy to gain planning permission? The answer should be “no”, but unfortunately the answer is invariably “yes” merely due to the general cost of obtaining all the information required to support a planning application including wildlife survey, structural survey, topographical survey […]