Chartered surveyor FRICS (Fellow of RICS), negotiator, facilitator, communicator, project management
General advice around agri-environment, planning, infrastructure.
Professional services acting for pipelaying utilities around comms and preventing compensation. Acting for owners/occupiers in claiming compensation under Water Industry Act pipelaying schemes (though not when acting for Anglian Water)
Expert in professional services (25 years) in rural project management re pipelaying (Anglian, Thames, Welsh, Veolia Water), legal notices, agricultural liaison, land drainage, compensation negotiation & prevention and land purchases etc.
Liaison and negotiation with farmers, ecologists, planners, solicitors, public, stakeholders, engineers re 30km overhead 132Kv line in Mid Wales.
Environmental and planning work within Brecon Beacons National Park and South Wales. Previously a National trust land agent.
Consultant for ADAS on environmental and planning matters.
Member of countryside and compulsory purchase RICS policy panels
About me (biography)
Sample of surveyor related articlesÂ
Oxford Farming Conference 2013
Old countryside; new demands 2011
Rural surveyors and natural capital RICS Modus 6.15
Previous professional background
1993 – 2002: Land agent for chartered surveyors in Hertfordshire (Brazier Freeth) acting for water companies on cross country pipelines and rural matters.
1990 – 93: Land agent for the National Trust in Thames Valley dealing with agricultural estates re farm effluent, agri-enviro schemes and landscape restoration.