Carver Knowles General News
Carver Knowles are delighted to be supporting the Pershore and Upton upon Severn Branch of the NFU at their annual conference next week. The Pershore Conference will be held at its usual venue at Pershore College on Thursday 16th January 2020 at 7:30 pm. Ray Foster Morrison, NFU group secretary, has as usual organised what […]
Posted on January 7th, 2020 by Ellen Cottrell
Carver Knowles are seeking new tenants on behalf of one of our clients to occupy either all of part of two buildings in Beckford on the Worcestershire/Gloucestershire border. There are two buildings available, both of which are former agricultural buildings available to let for a storage use. The buildings consists of one former poultry shed […]
Posted on December 23rd, 2019 by Ellen Cottrell
Earlier this month the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) launched three new grants available to farmers under the RDPE Growth Programme. The grants are designed to provide funding for projects in rural areas which create jobs and growth in the rural economy. What grants are available? The RDPE Growth Programme provides grant funding for […]
Posted on November 22nd, 2019 by Ellen Cottrell
Whilst our future relationship with Europe is uncertain, we are certain that the Basic Farm Payment will be gone in 6 years. To many this is a critical part of their farm income and replacing it will be a challenge. Whilst there will be a new environmental scheme to replace the Basic Payment Scheme, the […]
Posted on July 10th, 2019 by Andrew Troughton
Carver Knowles are delighted to offer to the market 0.92 acres of land in the North Cotswold village of Ebrington with outline consent for 3 open market dwellings. The Outline consent (ref 18/00996/OUT) from Cotswold District Council approved a courtyard style layout of one 2 bed, one 3 bed and one 4 bed dwelling. The […]
Posted on July 10th, 2019 by Andrew Troughton
The second round of the Countryside Productivity Small Grant is now open for farmers in England. The Rural Payments Agency introduced the first round of its Small Grant Scheme under the Countryside Productivity programme last year with great success. The grant is part of the Rural Development Programme for England and gives grant funding towards […]
Posted on July 9th, 2019 by Andrew Troughton
Director of Carver Knowles, Julie Newton, is delighted to confirm that outline planning consent has been granted by Cotswold District Council for a three dwelling site together with village car park in Ebrington near Chipping Campden. In planning terms this site was outside of the village development boundary and within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding […]
Posted on June 5th, 2019 by Andrew Troughton
Planning enforcement Planning enforcement is a procedure undertaken by Local Authorities where development has occurred without the correct planning permission. Once a notice of planning enforcement is served by the Local Authority the land owner has a limited amount of time to comply. Compliance can involve removing the structure or ceasing a use. Failure to […]
Posted on February 18th, 2019 by Andrew Troughton
2018 was an extremely popular year for agricultural and rural grants with Carver Knowles securing over £500,000 worth of funding for local farmers and businesses. The majority of these grants such as LEADER and the Rural Development Programme grants were funded with European money and the schemes have now started to close to new applications. […]
Posted on February 1st, 2019 by Ellen Cottrell
When it comes to horses the question of whether planning consent is required or not can become confusing. Most people are unsure what their permitted development rights are and what they may or may not need planning for. Change of use Horses can be grazed on agricultural land as long as they are not being […]
Posted on January 28th, 2019 by Ellen Cottrell