Mr A H (Hugh) Garratt

• Rural planning, development (local plans, residential and commercial applications, changes of use, conversions, planning conditions, occupancy conditions).

• Heritage property (listed buildings, ancient monuments, conservation work and alterations). RICS-Certified Historic Building Professional.

• RICS-Registered Valuer of Real Property.

• Land & estate management (landlord & tenant, leases, residential lettings, agricultural tenure, dilapidations, agricultural valuations, farming systems, rural land use, country sports).

• Compulsory purchase, compensation (highways, utilities, ransom strips, insurance losses).

• Renewable energy (wind farms, solar panel and hydro energy).

• Land use; leisure (diversification schemes, horses, golf, sports, caravans, holiday property, public access); forestry (timber growing, amenity woodland, felling licences, tree preservation orders, FC Reference Panel Member); minerals, (restoration, brownfield regeneration, coal mining, subsidence, surface remediation).

• Inheritance planning for rural assets (wills, trusts, IHT, CGT, estate valuation).

• Rural employment (pay, terms, contracts, termination, tied housing, occupational illness).

• RICS Arbiter for Boundary Disputes.

• Registered valuer of real property

Rural Estate Management at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; Law at University of Northumbria, Newcastle.

RICS, CAAV