Planning & Buildings News

The Countryside Alliance has responded to the government’s proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), highlighting its key concerns and advocating for a ‘rooftop-first’ approach to solar installations on farmland.

A Derbyshire broiler unit capable of housing up to 84,000 birds has been put up for sale with a guide price of £1.1million. 

Origin Fertilisers and the Port of Tyne have announced a £7.5 million combined investment in a new fertiliser facility. 

Plans for an £8.5 million solar farm to be built in New Forest have been approved despite objections from the residents. 

“Farmland should be farmland,” said the majority of the Newark residents, while others agreed with plans for one of Britain’s biggest solar farms to be built in East Midlands. 

Plans to build a solar farm the size of 86 football pitches on high-grade farmland in Kent have been rejected. 

Controversial plans for a huge solar farm to be built on the Cambridgeshire-Suffolk border have just been approved by the new secretary of state for energy. 

Many UK family farms are achieving dreams for their businesses that previously seemed impossible, according to Rural Asset Finance experts. 

A West Lothian mixed farm has been put up for sale for over £3,595,000 as a whole or in six separate lots.

A traditional Cornish farmstead surrounded by productive farmland has been put up for rent on long-term tenancy. 

A fully equipped farm in Lincolnshire is looking for a new tenant. The arable farm owned by Crown Estate is available to let through national property consultant Carter Jonas. 

A 900-acre farm located in the picturesque village of Little Sampford in North Essex has been put up for sale for £10,950,000.