Rural Land

The positive impact that land can play is substantial and often underestimated, but its negative externalities are the subject of increasing public and investor scrutiny. Given the dramatically changing policy landscapes, there is a need and an opportunity for all landowners to understand and utilise the true value of their investments.

Key reasons to challenge rural asset strategy

• Internal and external stakeholders need to understand and measure the true value of the asset’s tangible and intangible economic, social and environmental contributions
• Land managers need to mitigate risks and negative impacts of the day to day activities of rural spaces
• Farmers need to identify new opportunities in environmental service provision including carbon offsetting or biodiversity creation
• Land managers need to develop benchmarks for future and comparative performance
  
  

How we can help

Rural Performance Reviews

• Natural Capital Performance – assess the natural and social assets of a rural place, with benchmarked ecosystem service scores for comparative and annual assessment, including the carbon baseline of land and property, and flood risk scores.
• Financial Performance – compare estates’ financial performance against previous years and our national benchmarks

Estate or Portfolio Strategic Reviews

• Our teams work with owners and trustees to analyse existing rural asset management strategies and determine options for improved outcomes across all rural asset classes consistent with ownership objectives and evolving policy and market expectations. 

Specific Natural Capital Advisory

• Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) feasibility assessments and brokerage
• Carbon – peatland and woodland carbon assessments, brokerage and investments
• Public funding opportunities – access to a wide range of government funded environmental improvement schemes.