Wednesday 30 October saw Chancellor Rachel Reeves announce her first budget, with some significant changes to Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief, as well as National Insurance and the minimum wage. In this podcast, Jeremy Moody, secretary and adviser to the CAAV, breaks down the headlines which will directly impact many family farms and landowners. 

The CAAV is launching a major new campaign; Route to Rural. Despite having more qualified Fellows and members in training than ever before, demand for agricultural valuers is still outstripping supply. In a bid to attract more people into the sector, the CAAV has built this comprehensive campaign, as secretary and adviser Jeremy Moody explains.

Following Labour’s landslide election win, England is now facing what could be the biggest changes to its planning system in decades. The new Government has rolled out ambitious policies to reshape how and where homes, energy and other infrastructure are built, with a target of 1.5 million new houses for England by 2029. So how might this play out? Jeremy Moody, secretary and adviser to the CAAV, explains.

In this episode, we are discussing the valuation of telecom mast sites. Since the introduction of the 'new' Electronic Communications Code in late 2017, there has been an increase in the volume of litigation, with Tribunal cases providing determinations on a range of issues associated with the legislation.   

One such area of dispute relates to the amount of consideration or ‘rent’ for a mast site. Rebecca Collins at the CAAV explains more.

From September 1 this year there are going to be some significant changes to the eligibility tests for farm tenancy succession. The aim is to make it easier for productive land to get into the most suitable hands. But how will it work? Jeremy Moody, secretary and adviser to the CAAV, explains.

There has been an update to the Sustainable Farming

Links mentioned in the podcast are below:

Scheme Guidance: SFI

Collected Actions PDF: SFI-2024-actions-print-version.pdf

Sector Leaflets: EXPANDED

Find Funding Tool: Find funding for land

CS & HLS to SFI Transfer Guidance: Countryside

Agricultural Transition Update: Agricultural

Technical Annex to Transition Plan Update: The Combined Environmental Land Management Offer: Technical

Last week, Labour won a landslide victory in the general election, despite the second lowest voter turnout since 1918. So what is that going to mean for the rural sector? Jeremy Moody, secretary and adviser to the CAAV, has been unpicking the Party’s manifesto promises and following the subsequent activity in Westminster.

This week, we heard Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s final Budget of this Parliament – and likely the final Tory budget for a few years. Much was touted ahead of the Budget, but what has it really delivered? Jeremy Moody, secretary and adviser to the CAAV, has been trawling through the depths of the details to see what lies behind the headline figures.

Following the Defra secretary’s headline speech at the Oxford Farming Conference in early January – after which an update to the agricultural transition plan was published – Richard Sanders takes a timely look at the latest information on these schemes.