Specialists in Rural Projects & Diversification

Professional Project Management From Concept to Completion
Independent, Objective Advice Tailored To Your Long-Term Success
Funding, Finance & Partnership Solutions

Gain insights towards your next project…

Specialists in Rural Projects & Diversification

Professional Project Management From Concept to Completion
Independent, Objective Advice Tailored To Your Long-Term Success
Funding, Finance & Partnership Solutions

Gain insights towards your next project…

Concept to Completion, under one roof - Your Partner for Rural Diversification Projects

We help rural landowners, farms and estates across the UK to unlock the full potential of their assets through the delivery of projects and diversification.

Your Project – Comprehensively Planned – Seamlessly Delivered

Our three specialist departments, Rural Project Consultancy, Funding & Finance, and Construction Project Management, are uniquely integrated to optimise rural project and diversification delivery, from concept to completion. The result, rural diversification projects completed as planned, without compromise.

Rural Project Consultancy

Estate and Project Masterplanning
Business Planning
Investment Appraisals
Class Q Prior Approval – Agricultural to residential use
Class R Prior Approval – Agricultural to commercial use
Planning Advice
Diversification and Project Advice
Market & Feasibility Analysis

Funding & Finance

Capital Structuring
Raising Finance
Grant Applications
Budget Forecasting
Joint Ventures & Concessions
Operators & Leasehold

Construction Project Management

Tendering & Procurement
Stakeholder Management
Project Team Management
Contractor Oversight
Construction Management
H&S Risk Management
Principal Designer Roles
Cost Control & Monitoring

A Proven Path from Concept to Completion

Every project is different, but our structured approach flexes to your goals. The result is seamless progress and the confidence that cost, time, and quality stay in your control from day one to delivery.

This stage enables the definition of our client’s vision, projects and tests whether they are viable in principle. This early scoping avoids abortive time and capital, ensuring each project has a clear direction and purpose prior to investment. We offer two bespoke masterplanning products tailored to client requirements.

Estate Masterplanning
A holistic, estate-wide report for landowners with multiple overlapping projects, defining long-term strategy and priorities.

Project Masterplanning
A focused assessment of a single building, site, or plot, giving clarity on viability, opportunities, and constraints to move forward with confidence.

We shape the brief, assemble the right professionals for the project team, and source the key site information. This forms the foundation for smooth planning, budgeting, finance, and design.

We manage the project team to shape design and delivery options that balance creativity with practicality. This includes coordinating early technical advice, such as ecology, highways, and flood risk, so that opportunities and constraints are fully understood from the outset.

Where appropriate, we prepare and submit a pre-application to the local authority, giving valuable clarity on planning prospects, risks, and potential further costs. This process helps establish the right design direction, planning, and delivery strategy before committing further resources, ensuring confidence in the project’s progression. At this stage, more detailed feasibility analysis takes place, and the funding and finance strategy is considered.

We coordinate all the technical inputs and reporting required for planning applications, managing input from professionals and consultants in areas such as design planning, ecology, flooding, and highways. We manage submissions and liaise with consultants to ensure the project stays on programme, while continuously reviewing costs and financial viability to ensure the project remains deliverable. Once planning is achieved (where required), lenders are approached to begin the procurement of funding and finance.

Additionally, where appropriate, we engage with potential operators, joint ventures, or Chartered agents to ensure the security of income once the project is handed over, an important factor for clients and lenders.

We prepare everything required for contractors, lenders, and grants, managing the transfer of technical information, specifications, and pre-construction information required for procurement and construction mobilisation. Final budgets are developed and tested through tendering and value engineering, ensuring an appropriate balance between cost, quality, and objectives.

We manage the contractual matters required for construction and ensure regulatory compliance, such as Building Regulations 2010, Building Safety Act 2025, and Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (non-exhaustive). By addressing these key details and responsibilities up front on behalf of clients, we help prevent future liabilities and give them and their lenders confidence in the project’s deliverability.

We manage the construction or implementation phase on your behalf, overseeing contractors and maintaining strong stakeholder relations throughout.

Our role spans cost control, programme management, H&S auditing, compliance with CDM and Building Regulations, while also providing proactive oversight and reactive on-the-ground problem-solving when challenges arise. We safeguard our clients’ projects’ time, budget, quality, and long-term objectives throughout.

We manage the project completion and handover to enable our clients to commence operations with confidence. This includes coordinating inspections, managing snagging lists, and ensuring all statutory sign-offs, such as certification of practical completion, discharge of planning conditions, and contractual close-out, ensuring warranties, health and safety files, and operation manuals are in place. We also support the mobilisation of independent operators, concessions, or joint venture partners where required.

Stronger Project Outcomes Through Collaboration

We work alongside rural surveyors, legal advisors, planning consultants, architects, and other professionals, strengthening project outcomes through shared expertise and joined-up thinking. With a deep knowledge of the rural sector, diversification, construction, and the unique needs of farmers and landowners, we bring sector-specific insight that complements the skills of fellow professionals. We see advisors as partners and welcome opportunities to combine strengths to deliver the very best results for clients.

Projects We’ve Delivered

Victorian Courtyard to Rural Hub

Estate Masterplanning, feasibility analysis, funding and grant acquisition and construction project management of a redundant courtyard, transforming it into a farm shop, café, venue space, short term accommodation and concessionary business units.

On Farm Distillery, Cooperage and Visitor Centre

Estate Masterplanning, feasibility and options analysis, funding and grant acquisition, business planning and turnkey project management from concept to completion of a farm distillery, cooperage and visitor centre, including a 12-acre orchard.

Mixed Estate

Masterplans

Various Estate Masterplans for clients of varying scales, locations and types, including stakeholder and site appraisals, local planning, mobility and demographic analysis and tailored recommendations for outlined projects.

Have a conversation with us

If you are a landowner, or are representing a landowning client, and are in need of some specialist rural project advice, we’d welcome an initial conversation to explore how we can best add value.

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