Petersfield Update 2011
Annual Briefing for Rural Practice Surveyors and Agricultural Valuers
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| Programme | |
| 09:15 | Registration and Coffee |
| 09:45 | Welcome to conference delegates |
| Andrew Ford, Chairman, Agricultural Valuers Association of Hants, Wilts and Dorset | |
| MORNING SESSION | |
| 09:50 | Introduction |
| Chairman Morning Session: David Slack MRICS, Rural Professional Board Chairman | |
| 10:00 | Community Infrastructure Levy and Localism Bill |
| Jason Clemons, D&M Planning Partnership, Godalming, Surrey | |
| 10:35 | Renewable Energy at the Sharpe End - Making a Project Happen |
| James Miles-Hobbs, Rural Development Associates, Devizes, Wiltshire | |
| 11:10 | Coffee |
| 11:30 | Agricultural Law Update |
| William Neville, Partner, Burges Salmon, Bristol | |
| 12:05 | Questions to Panel of Morning Speakers |
| 12:35 | RICS Rural Professional Group Update |
| David Slack MRICS, Rural Professional Board Chairman | |
| 12:45 | Light Buffet Lunch |
| AFTERNOON SESSION | |
| 13:50 | Introduction |
| Chairman Afternoon Session: William Wolmer, Blackmoor Estate, Selborne, Hampshire | |
| 14:00 | Filming Locations: A Landowner's Perspective |
| Bill Biddell, Hampton Estate, Farnham, Surrey | |
| 14:35 | Managing/Mitigating Risk |
| Jeremy Mitchell, CLA Insurance Services/RK Harrison Insurance Services Limited, Salisbury, Wiltshire | |
| 15:10 | Forestry: An Overview and Opportunities |
| Crispin Golding MICFor, Woodland Investment Adviser, UPM Tilhill, Cullompton, Devon | |
| 15:45 | Questions to Panel of Afternoon Speakers |
| 16:15 | Tea and Disperse |
| Biographies | |
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Jason Clemons had 10 years experience with local planning authorities before moving into the private sector as a planning consultant. As a local authority conservation officer he provided technical advice on the repair of historic buildings, advised on the impact of development on the architectural and historic interest of a building and was involved in the development of conservation planning policy. As an area planning officer, Jason gained considerable experience of enforcement procedures and legislation. Trained in urban design, he has experience of appraising and developing the design of development proposals. He is experienced in the preparation of Design Statements which are often required by local planning authorities for non-householder applications. He has been successful in obtaining planning permission for two substantial enabling development schemes, which will result in the restoration of two important listed buildings. |
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Crispin Golding is a chartered forester with almost 30 years of experience working with trees and forests in the UK and Africa, as both a tree surgeon and a forester. He studied forestry at Aberdeen and Oxford and now works for UPM Tilhill, the largest private forest management company in the UK, as one of their four woodland investment advisors. He is also their regional forestry manager with responsibility for the company’s forestry business in central and southern England. Crispin is the lead author of the company’s annual Forest Market Report, produced in late autumn in conjunction with Savills, as well as the company’s Forestry Tax Guide. |
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James Miles-Hobbs has practised as a business consultant for the last 25 years, as a partner with Andersons, before starting his own company, Rural Development Associates, in 2004. Originally he specialised in strategic financial planning for farmers and landowners but now focuses on renewable energy, rural diversification and grant funding. He has been involved with renewable energy since 1994 which now constitutes over 75% of his business, focusing on his core business skills, with over 150 projects during this time. James is an ex-chairman and committee member of the Wiltshire Branch of the CLA. He also sits on the CLA National Business & Rural Policy Committee, the National Policy Council and the National Renewable Energy Working Group. He is chairman of the Land & Farming Discussion Group in Salisbury and a committee member for the Business Management Division of the British Institute of Agricultural Consultants. James is also a director of Pucknall Energy Generation Limited and Wadswick Energy Limited. |
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Jeremy Mitchell started working in Insurance as an Underwriter in the late 1980s , and moved in to the broking sector in the mid 90s. He was a senior account executive for Aon Private Clients for seven years and following a move just ov er 15 months ago is now a divisional director for RK Harrison & CLA Insurance Services. Jeremy specialises in Insurance for Historic Houses , Farms & Country Estates and is now based in the Salisbury office, where he looks after a portfolio of rural clients based all over the UK. |
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William Neville is a solicitor advocate (Higher Courts) and was a practising barrister from 1979-87. He is a partner at Burges Salmon dealing with food and agriculture. He works for clients across the whole industry, bringing his specialist commercial and property skills. William is a contributing author to Halsbury's Laws of England on Agriculture. He has also published A Guide to the Reformed Common Agricultural Policy and was joint author of Mid Term Review - A Practical Guide. He is a member of the Agricultural Law Association, Law Society Food Law Group, Property Litigation Association, British Institute of Agricultural Consultants, Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers, National Farmers Union Professional, National Institute of Agriculture and Botany and is a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society. |
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David Slack is an accredited valuer under the RICS Registered Valuer Scheme. He has considerable expertise in rural estate management, property portfolio management, farm agency, agricultural valuation and rural planning and development. He undertakes a wide range of rural valuations for private individuals, banks, charities and trusts for inheritance tax, capital gains tax, lending and investment purposes, and has recently been appointed as an expert valuer in a number of litigation cases. David is a partner of Smiths Gore based at the firm’s Maidstone office with responsibility for farm agency and valuation across the South East. In 1999 he became head of the country house and farm agency department of John D Wood & Co. in London specialising in the sale, acquisition and valuation of country houses, farms and estates across the United Kingdom and Ireland. He joined the rural division of Cluttons LLP in 2005 which merged into Smiths Gore in 2008. David is currently the chairman of the RICS Rural Board, a member of the Institute of Agricultural Management and a governor of the Royal Agricultural College. |
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William Wolmer is the managing director of Blackmoor Estate near Selborne in Hampshire. The main farming activity at Blackmoor is apple, pear and plum growing. With its range of fruit enterprises, from rootstock and fruit tree and soft fruit production and online tree sales at Blackmoor Nurseries, to orchards, fruit storage and grading, to on-farm and farmers market fruit sales, Blackmoor is involved in every link of the production chain. As well as the fruit enterprises the estate has an arable enterprise and a number of agricultural and non-agricultural businesses and tenants. Before farming full-time William spent ten years working in rural development in Africa as a research fellow at Sussex University. |
| CONFERENCE INFORMATION |
FEE The conference fee of £75.00 (including £12.50 VAT) includes coffee both on arrival and mid morning together with a light buffet lunch and tea at the end of the afternoon. All registrations will be acknowledged by e-mail wherever possible. A receipted invoice will be mailed if requested. If you do not receive confirmation please telephone our Cambridge office to ensure we have registered your booking. |
| CANCELLATIONS Cancellations may be made by telephone but should be confirmed in writing and will be subject to a 25% administrative charge. No refunds can be made by cancellations notified after 9 November 2011. Substitute delegates will be accepted at any time. |
| CPD The conference may qualify for up to 5 hours CPD Pace Projects reserves the right to change the venue and/or the speakers at any time and without prior notice. Pace Projects also reserve the right to cancel the conference, in which case all monies will be refunded in full. |
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