AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL BUILDINGS

We provide a complete pre-construction design and planning service for agricultural and rural buildings. Our expertise covers livestock buildings, dairy units, workshops, machinery buildings, equestrian facilities, barn conversions and change of use of existing buildings.

We can help if your project is straightforward, such as a livestock building on a greenfield site. And we can help with more complex projects. For example, you may want to set up a rural enterprise building. Or you may need change of use for a barn conversion in a sensitive area that requires bat surveys, heritage impact assessments, structural assessments, full change of use planning and detailed design works with full 3D colour visualisations.

Whichever, we’ll take care of everything to make sure your project runs smoothly and is completed with minimal impact on the local environment.

Along with all architectural and structural design, our agricultural and rural buildings service includes:

• Planning applications for livestock buildings, barns and equestrian buildings
• Planning applications for farm diversification and rural enterprise schemes
• Barn conversions including change of use, planning and building control applications
• Bat and habitat surveys
• Structural assessments and reports
• Topographical land surveys
• Tree surveys to BS5837
• 3D visualisation and presentation materials in support of sensitive schemes such as developments in national parks or areas of outstanding natural beauty
• Steelwork design and detailing to BS EN 1993 (commercial) and BS 5502 (agricultural)
• CDM (The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations) 2015 principal designer role

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