Diversification

From glamping to galleries, festivals to farm shops, rural diversification can take many forms. Our land agents have a portfolio of successful diversification projects, including establishing golf courses, restaurants, art galleries, renewable energy schemes, farm shops, theatres, dance schools, business centres, recording studios, wedding venues, festivals of food, drink, music and classic cars, and even a disused railway resurrected on a Scottish estate.

Rural diversification services

Strategic advice

Successful diversification requires thoughtful planning, thorough research, and in-depth local knowledge. Our long-established teams combine deep-rooted local insights and business planning expertise to advise on the options best suited to your land and your long-term strategy, providing market analysis, preparing feasibility studies and identifying the impact on existing enterprises. This can form part of our fuller strategic estate planning offering.

Planning services

Our planning teams will work with our rural diversification specialists to help bring your project to life. Our planners can navigate change-of-use for redundant buildings using Permitted Development Rights. They will also manage the more complex process of obtaining full planning permission for a rural diversification project, working around any site constraints and delivering proposals that enhance your estate and the natural environment.

Project management

Implementation is key to any successful rural diversification project, and requires attention to detail, unwavering commitment, and keen operational knowledge. Our teams can deliver the project in full, leveraging our property and business management skills to get schemes up and running, including securing funding and grants and overseeing contractors.

Accounting

Our rural client finance team supports land and estate owners establishing and running rural diversification projects on a wide range of accounting, bookkeeping and taxation issues, using the latest technology to ensure accurate, compliant and operationally smooth finances.

Natural capital

Our dedicated natural capital teams help landowners utilise their natural assets to create new, sustainable revenue streams, strengthen their business resilience, and build a legacy for future generations. This can include converting land from agricultural to environmental use, planting new trees and creating wetland habitats.

From wind farms to wineries, forests to festivals

No two of our clients are alike, and neither are the diversification plans we build for them. We work with our clients to thoroughly understand their land and their legacy. We work with local businesses to deliver value to their communities. And we always work with the environment in mind, leaving a positive, lasting impact on any land we touch.