We provide comprehensive advice and hands-on support to help land owners, managers and trustees establish new enterprises and develop existing businesses. These range across tourism, events and leisure enterprises, usually conducted in and around historic houses, heritage sites and rural estates.

This means our clients tend to be land owners, rural businesses and owners of homes and estates. We also serve major treasure houses, local authorities, charities, hotel groups, schools and colleges looking for ways to diversify and generate additional income.

Combining our learnings from clients' aspirations with over 50 years of collective experience, we offer clear strategic advice and identify innovative business opportunities. Once a project is underway, we can also provide ongoing consultancy and support, steering progress in a multitude of areas where our past experience can turn pitfalls into opportunities.    

View our latest case study below at Longstones Avebury, where we collaborated with our Architecture, Building and Surveying colleagues to support farm and land diversification into holiday accommodation. Contact us if we can support you with your diversification ideas.

Steering progress in areas where our experience of other successful rural diversification projects can turn pitfalls into opportunities

This includes advising on: day visitor enterprises, corporate and other events, including concerts and festivals, catering and retail sales, weddings and receptions, location filming and photography, holiday accommodation and glamping, sales and marketing plans, event management and contract negotiation, plus staff recruitment and training.

Our tourism, leisure and events expertise is shaped in Worcester and delivered by us across the UK and Ireland.

 

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Related Services

Consultancy

Architectural Design

Our clients benefit from a full, end-to-end architectural design service. This entails advising private individuals and corporate entities, colleges and educational institutions, urban and rural estates and landowners on architectural aspects of commercial, residential, cultural, agricultural and leisure property projects.

Valuation

Estate & Farm Valuation

Our team focuses on the valuation of property assets that make up an estate or farm. These valuations can be for the purpose of loan security, taxation, internal transfers or for dispute resolution, and so need to be accurate, informed and respected.

Consultancy

Succession & Tax Planning

For many years, protecting estate, land and farm owners’ assets has been an intrinsic part of our estate management service. We know that early, efficient tax planning can turn a liability into a lucrative opportunity. 

Property Management

Estate Management

Our national team of 320 provides a comprehensive estate management service, from ad hoc advice to full management. We work closely with owners of all sizes of estates, whether they comprise 50 acres or thousands of acres, helping to efficiently manage their business.

Consultancy

Farm Business Consultancy

We help to optimise revenues and asset values of farms and rural businesses by providing an all-encompassing advisory and management service for farmers, land owners (private individuals, corporates, institutions and charities), rural businesses and those working in food processing/retailing.

Property Management

Leisure Property Management

On behalf of our clients we manage single let, leisure parks and in-town leisure schemes, providing all aspects of property management services.

Consultancy

Rural Diversification

We help anyone who owns rural property diversify and find new sources of income by developing or redeveloping under-used assets, whether property or land.

Planning

Rural Planning

Our planning consultants are rural specialists, maximising opportunities for any client hoping to develop buildings and land in the countryside. We are instructed by land owners, estates, private clients and developers on a range of non-urban matters covering residential development, farm buildings and diversification, permitted development and renewable energy.