Our offices at Leek, Hanley, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Sandbach have been serving the farming and agricultural communities going back to 1666!

We can provide you with expert, practical and cost-effective advice on all aspects of agricultural and environmental law including:

• Purchasing and selling farms, agricultural land and estates whether with xiivacant possession or subject to tenancies;

• Creation of farm business tenancies and advice as to the application of xiithe Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, with particular reference to succession xiirights;

• Estate planning with particular reference to preserving Agricultural xiiProperty Relief for inheritance tax purposes;

• Milk quota transfers and the legal aspects of all EEC subsidy schemes xiiincluding the single payment scheme and the various stewardship xiischemes;

• Share farming, contractors and joint venture agreements including xxformation of companies and limited liability partnerships;

• Partnership agreements whether family or non-family;

• Grazing agreements and licences;

• Sporting and mineral rights;

• Tied cottages and the planning implications of owning or buying xxagricultural land;

• Raising finance for the purchase or development of agricultural land or
xiire-financing the family farm;

• Environmental law as it is applicable to agricultural land.

We are members of the Agricultural Law Association and the Country Land and Business Association. We have very close links with the leading agricultural valuers and surveyors serving the areas in which we practice.

Our agricultural specialist Paul Hawksworth is a senior partner in the firm and has been advising the agricultural communities of North Staffordshire, South Cheshire and the Staffordshire Moorlands for upwards of 35 years.
He lives in the countryside and speaks the language of farmers and landowners.

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