I’m delighted to return to Hobbs Parker Property Consultants in 2019 as a Chartered Rural Surveyor and Director. I originally started out in the Property Consultants team as a graduate, from the University of Reading in 2008, joining to undertake my training to become a Chartered Surveyor and Fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers. Along the way, I experienced most aspects of the Hobbs Parker Group including clerking in the livestock market, collective sales, farm sales and being involved in the car auction.
The training worked, and I now sit on an RICS panel of Assessors to grill the next set of hopeful chartered surveyors!
During my time away from Hobbs Parker I worked for a national firm in their Oxford office specialising in Valuation, Compulsory Purchase and Compensation work alongside general practice consultancy.
My experiences include:
Valuation
Rural assets valuations including farms, estates, arable land, pasture land, horticultural and development land, and rural property for private clients, high street and private wealth banks and charities. Reports undertaken for a range of purposes to include secured lending, inheritance and capital gains tax and estate planning.
Compulsory Purchase
HS2 – Representing land and estate owners, tenants and businesses affected by the HS2 rail scheme from the early stages of surveys and ground investigation works, contractors compounds through to petitioning parliament, and representing clients as Petitioner Advocate at the House of Lords Select Committee.
East West Rail – East West Rail Western Section (Oxford to Bedford and Milton Keynes to London Marylebone via Aylesbury) scheme. To include the agreement of environmental mitigation works, working compounds, crop loss and disturbance claims, and submissions to Public Inquiry.
Utility Schemes- Creation, diversion and decommissioning of electricity, water and gas mains.
Landlord and Tenant
Agricultural Holdings Act (1986) Tenancies – Rent reviews, end of tenancy and request for creation of a written tenancy.
Agricultural Holdings Act (1995) Tenancies – Creation of Farm Business Tenancies, Rent Reviews, End of Tenancy Arrangements.
Agency
Purchase and sale of Farms and Land including openly marketed and off-market transactions.
Outside of work, I enjoy travelling the world and love nothing better than googling far-flung locations, booking a ‘flight’ and exploring. My favourite places so far are the Galapagos Islands off the Ecuador coast, and exploring the lost city of Petra in Jordan.
Closer to home, I enjoy trips home to our family farm near The Black Mountains in Herefordshire and wandering around the bookshops of Hay-on-Wye.
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Timbeeeeeeeer!
DEFRA have brought in a reverse auction system whereby landowners seeking to create woodland in England over the next 30 years can bid to secure government issued carbon credits, through competitive bidding to establish a […]
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More powers to tenants
Years of lobbying by the Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) has finally resulted in successful amendments to The Agriculture Act to make retirement and succession under old farming tenancies easier. Here’s a few areas that have […]
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Is your business ready for the Agriculture Bill?
The time immortal words of Mark Twain continue to strike a chord as Britain’s second agricultural revolution starts to take shape. We now know BPS is going, and much faster than expected. The first £30,000 […]
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All change for the land market?
In a past and present of uncertainty and volatility; and with increasingly negative media speculation in relation to the future economy, perhaps now is the time to sell up and move on? We have been […]
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Agricultural Property Relief - Don’t let the taxman harvest more than his due
The first-tier tribunal decision in Charnely vs HMRC centred on to what extent a 79-year-old Lancashire farmer could be considered to have been actively farming at the time of his death. Broadly, HMRC argued he […]
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Rural Funding Opportunities
Defra has confirmed £35 million of funding will be made available to rural businesses under the RDPE Growth Programme. A share of the Rural Development Programme money – minimum level £20,000 – is available to […]
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Inheritance Tax Review
While the government continues to muddle through Brexit, and the opposition is busy publishing “Land for the Many” suggesting much wider and more radical reforms, in the background the Civil Service continues to quietly review […]
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Assets for sale? Take time to qualify for relief
Under this relief, qualifying assets result in a reduced rate of Capital Gains Tax of 10% on the value of the sale, with a limit of up to £10 million during your lifetime. Compared against […]
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Vicky Phillips returns to Hobbs Parker's Property Consultants team
Having reached the position of Partner in her previous role at a national firm, Vicky has a wealth of experience in farm, land and estate valuations in the south-east and nationally, for private client, high […]
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