Masterplanning Rural Diversification

Our services including preparing feasibility studies for a range of rural sites. This could include anything from a barn conversion, a development of new homes, farm shops, leisure activities, or visitor attractions. Today’s rural economy might even include holiday lets, glamping sites, or wedding venues

There are a variety of diversification options and increasingly farm businesses have a number of “strings to their bow”, providing a variety of income streams. Together with other teams in Carter Jonas, we help clients release the full potential of under-used assets.

Our Rural Diversification services include the following:

• Site context studies & baseline appraisals - Undertaking context studies to assess site locations, including baseline mapping studies – typically flood risk, heritage, planning and landscape designations

• Analysis of baseline technical reports & data - Reviewing technical reports and other site data in order to determine opportunities and constraints, and records of risks and assumptions

• Documenting site opportunities & constraints - Producing combined opportunities and constraints plans, together with supporting tables of constraints

• Commerciality - Working closely with our rural division and development consultancy teams to ensure rural development proposals are commercially viable and deliverable in a given location

• Masterplan strategies & options - Producing masterplan strategies in diagrammatic and illustrative formats - demonstrating land use and site, followed by more detailed services including:

  • Site Visions

  • Engagement and Consultation with LPA’s and Stakeholder Groups

  • Masterplan and Area Frameworks

  • Development Prospectuses

  • Town Centre Regeneration Plans

  • 3D Massing Models

  • Illustrations and Visualisations

  • Outline Applications

  • Supplementary Planning Documents

  • Design Codes or Development Briefs