⁠

Get in touch with our Directors and Consultants

Here are our direct contact details. We’d love to hear from you.

We are alway happy to have a friendly and completely confidential chat with you to discuss how we might be able to help you.

Chartered Surveyors

Office: 01233 506201

Vicky Hutton-Squire (née Phillips)

Director

Sam Snart

Managing Director

Jon Rimmer

Group Chairman

Development Consultants

Office: 01233 506201

Planning Consultants

Office: 01233 506201

Elizabeth Welch

Associate Director and Chartered Town Planner

Steve Davies

Associate Director and Chartered Town Planner

News and views

Government publishes draft Inheritance Tax BPR and APR legislation

By Matthew Sawdon

We have been waiting for this moment for some time.  On the 21st July, the Government published its much-anticipated draft legislation reforming Agricultural Property Relief (APR) and Business Property Relief (BPR), which will apply from April 2026.   We set out some of the key points below.

Find out more

Outlook - Summer 2025

By Matthew Sawdon

Our Summer Edition of Outlook is out now.  In this edition we cover recent planning successes for new agricultural buildings, the impact of UK trade deals on farming and the importance of online bidding at farm dispersal sales.

Find out more

EFRA Recommends Delay of Inheritance Tax Reforms until April 2027

By Vicky Hutton-Squire

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (EFRA) has today published its recommendations to Government in their paper “The Government’s vision for farming”. Key amongst those recommendations are suggestions to review and delay the current government proposals on Inheritance Tax (IHT). Will the Government listen to reason?

Find out more

Would you gamble £40,000 to win £1,000,000?

By Bill Lightfoot

If you have a small piece of land or old farmyard, how do you go about creating the development value? Who takes the risk? Who does the work? Who reaps the rewards?

Find out more

DEFRA Capital Grants Update

By Matthew Sawdon

Following the closure of the Capital Grants scheme last year, DEFRA have announced new funding for 2025/2026.   Previously submitted applications that were put on hold will now be processed.

Find out more

Outlook - Spring 2025

By Matthew Sawdon

Our Spring Edition of Outlook is out now.

Find out more