Gloucestershire landowner Henry Robinson has been elected Deputy President of the 35,000-strong Country Land and Business Association.
Mr Robinson, the Association’s former Vice-President, was elected Deputy to the CLA’s new president, Harry Cotterell, at the Association’s annual meeting in London last week.
Mr Cotterell owns and manages a 1,600-acre traditional family estate in Herefordshire. The mainly arable farming operation is all “in hand” growing wheat and oilseed rape but recently planted cider orchards produce up to 10,000 tonnes of apples a year. There is also a commercial forestry operation covering 700 acres and the farm provides one million chickens per year and 25,000lbs of mushrooms a week for a supermarket chain.
Mr Cotterell, who has been CLA Deputy President since 2009, will serve as President for two years. He said: “I am honoured to have been chosen to lead the Association and am looking forward to the challenges ahead such as CAP reform, planning reform and the Water White Paper. “
Mr Robinson says, he is committed to rural life in Gloucestershire where he has farmed since 1978. He has been chair of the county’s Rural Issues Task Force, a member of Gloucestershire First and the Rural Economic Advisory Panel; a Parish Councillor and school Governor and he remains a Deputy-Lieutenant for the County. He says he farms, manages, and generally enjoys the land, cottages, workshops and woodlands that make up the family farm near Cirencester.
He has been Chairman of the CLA’s Gloucestershire Branch, represented the South West on the CLA Council, and chaired the national Business and Rural Economy and the Environment Sub-Committees.
Mr Robinson said it was a great privilege to be asked to serve an organisation which campaigned so actively for the rural economy and which was the only organisation speaking up for property rights and land ownership.
“The challenges facing the countryside are many and various - but one of the very greatest will be the question of how to protect and enhance the landscape and environment while still producing food for a world with seven billion people in it.
“Closer to home, we are very engaged with the debate on the National Planning Policy Framework and how planning needs to change in order to encourage rural business and allow it to flourish. The CLA has been – and will continue - to campaign for high speed Broadband for all rural areas and appropriate renewable energy on farms.”
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
CLA Backs Attempt to Scrap the Cash
The theft of metal from farms and rural businesses has grown to epidemic proportions according to South West landowners who have now thrown their weight behind a Private Member’s Bill which will attempt to block the sale of stolen metal.
“Scrap metal is currently big business – and its no longer restricted to the theft of lead from the Church roof, now its overhead cables, copper of all kinds – which affect the telecommunications and electricity supply industries - and even barbed wire and other fencing has been stripped out for the value of the scrap,” said CLA South West Director, John Mortimer.
Lancashire MP, Graham Jones, will today (Tuesday 16 November) bring his “Metal Theft (Protection) Bill” before the House of Commons next week – and the CLA says it offers a solution to the problem.
Mr Jones says that the reason this type of crime is flourishing is because the regulatory framework surrounding metal recycling is so weak and that - in combination with the soaring international price of metal –effectively creates an incentive to steal.
“Farm yards and rural businesses have always been a prime target for thefts and landowners are currently suffering an epidemic of metal theft. Mr Jones’s proposed changes to the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964 and his other proposals are essential if this blight is to be ended quickly and effectively,” said Mr Mortimer.
Mr Jones’s Metal (Protection) Bill proposes six changes:
• Amend the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964 and replace the current registration scheme with a robust licensing regime, with scrap metal dealers paying a licence fee to fund the regulation of the licence.
• Allow property obtained through theft to be regarded as criminal assets; that would allow the provisions in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to apply.
• Grant police authorities the power to search and investigate all premises owned and operated by a scrap metal dealer, and to close scrap metal dealers where criminally obtained materials are discovered.
• Restrict the trade in scrap metals to cashless payments, and introduce a requirement that scrap metal must not be sold or processed until payments have been cleared. Photo identification and CCTV should be mandatory to identify sellers of scrap and their vehicles.
• Magistrates should have powers to add licence restrictions and prevent closed yards from re-opening.
• Amend The Theft Act and related Acts so that suspects caught should be charged and if found guilty, sentenced in such a way that is proportionate to the consequences of the crime, not the scrap metal value.
“The true cost of the theft is more than simply the value of the items taken due to lost production time, repairing damage caused, livestock straying due to gates left open or fencing taken down so we support this effort to bring about a change in the law,” said Mr Mortimer.
“Scrap metal is currently big business – and its no longer restricted to the theft of lead from the Church roof, now its overhead cables, copper of all kinds – which affect the telecommunications and electricity supply industries - and even barbed wire and other fencing has been stripped out for the value of the scrap,” said CLA South West Director, John Mortimer.
Lancashire MP, Graham Jones, will today (Tuesday 16 November) bring his “Metal Theft (Protection) Bill” before the House of Commons next week – and the CLA says it offers a solution to the problem.
Mr Jones says that the reason this type of crime is flourishing is because the regulatory framework surrounding metal recycling is so weak and that - in combination with the soaring international price of metal –effectively creates an incentive to steal.
“Farm yards and rural businesses have always been a prime target for thefts and landowners are currently suffering an epidemic of metal theft. Mr Jones’s proposed changes to the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964 and his other proposals are essential if this blight is to be ended quickly and effectively,” said Mr Mortimer.
Mr Jones’s Metal (Protection) Bill proposes six changes:
• Amend the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964 and replace the current registration scheme with a robust licensing regime, with scrap metal dealers paying a licence fee to fund the regulation of the licence.
• Allow property obtained through theft to be regarded as criminal assets; that would allow the provisions in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to apply.
• Grant police authorities the power to search and investigate all premises owned and operated by a scrap metal dealer, and to close scrap metal dealers where criminally obtained materials are discovered.
• Restrict the trade in scrap metals to cashless payments, and introduce a requirement that scrap metal must not be sold or processed until payments have been cleared. Photo identification and CCTV should be mandatory to identify sellers of scrap and their vehicles.
• Magistrates should have powers to add licence restrictions and prevent closed yards from re-opening.
• Amend The Theft Act and related Acts so that suspects caught should be charged and if found guilty, sentenced in such a way that is proportionate to the consequences of the crime, not the scrap metal value.
“The true cost of the theft is more than simply the value of the items taken due to lost production time, repairing damage caused, livestock straying due to gates left open or fencing taken down so we support this effort to bring about a change in the law,” said Mr Mortimer.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Downton Star Joins CLA “Can’t Get Online” Campaign
Rural Champions, the CLA, have launched a campaign designed to highlight the problems of rural areas still struggling to access broadband.
The campaign is a counter balance to the Government’s week-long promotion encouraging people to get online, and is timed to coincide with it - the CLA’s: ‘Can’t Get Online’ week runs from 30 October to 6 November. The Association’s aim is to ensure that every rural business and household can access a broadband connection of at least five megabits per second.
The problem, according to CLA experts, is that a fifth of rural England still cannot access even modest broadband speeds.
The campaign has already won the backing of Downton Abbey star, Hugh Bonneville, who plays the Earl of Grantham in ITV1’s popular period drama. Hugh lives in a village just 40 miles outside London but he says the broadband connection is “pretty pathetic” and wants infrastructure companies to give the countryside a chance.
He said: “I'd love to run aspects of my work from home; I'd love to sign up for services that stream content but the connection's just too unreliable. Some days I can't even send an email and there doesn’t seem to be much I can do about it.”
The week-long ‘Can’t Get Online’ roadshow, which is sponsored by the CLA, will see IT and social media expert, John Popham, touring rural communities across England to highlight the difficulties they face in getting online. He will be encouraging people with inadequate or non-existent broadband to find a friend with a broadband connection and sign the CLA petition calling for a minimum universal service commitment of 5 megabytes.
CLA South West director, John Mortimer, said: “In today’s world it is just not acceptable that broadband providers can choose to ignore rural areas. The Government wants us to fill in tax returns online because it’s more cost-effective and schools expect children to do homework online. This is only possible if homes and businesses have access to superfast broadband - internet service providers must be persuaded to bring broadband ‘not-spots’ up to speed rather than making the already fast even faster.”
People can sign the CLA petition at http://www.cla.org.uk/Policy_Work/Petitions/
Anybody who cannot access the petition can call the CLA regional office and leave their details to be added to the petition. The CLA in the South West can be contacted on
01249 700200.
Notes:
• Up to 20 percent of rural areas are still unable to receive an effective and affordable broadband connection.
• Up to 35 percent have no access to superfast broadband.
• Over 100,000 rural businesses do not have a broadband connection, leading to a clear rural-urban digital divide.
• Average broadband speeds in the UK are 6.2Mbps. But rural areas are lucky if they can receive 500kbps.
For further information on this news release contact:
Paul Millard CLA SW Communications Manager on 01380 830179
For further information on the CLA go to: www.cla.org.uk
The campaign is a counter balance to the Government’s week-long promotion encouraging people to get online, and is timed to coincide with it - the CLA’s: ‘Can’t Get Online’ week runs from 30 October to 6 November. The Association’s aim is to ensure that every rural business and household can access a broadband connection of at least five megabits per second.
The problem, according to CLA experts, is that a fifth of rural England still cannot access even modest broadband speeds.
The campaign has already won the backing of Downton Abbey star, Hugh Bonneville, who plays the Earl of Grantham in ITV1’s popular period drama. Hugh lives in a village just 40 miles outside London but he says the broadband connection is “pretty pathetic” and wants infrastructure companies to give the countryside a chance.
He said: “I'd love to run aspects of my work from home; I'd love to sign up for services that stream content but the connection's just too unreliable. Some days I can't even send an email and there doesn’t seem to be much I can do about it.”
The week-long ‘Can’t Get Online’ roadshow, which is sponsored by the CLA, will see IT and social media expert, John Popham, touring rural communities across England to highlight the difficulties they face in getting online. He will be encouraging people with inadequate or non-existent broadband to find a friend with a broadband connection and sign the CLA petition calling for a minimum universal service commitment of 5 megabytes.
CLA South West director, John Mortimer, said: “In today’s world it is just not acceptable that broadband providers can choose to ignore rural areas. The Government wants us to fill in tax returns online because it’s more cost-effective and schools expect children to do homework online. This is only possible if homes and businesses have access to superfast broadband - internet service providers must be persuaded to bring broadband ‘not-spots’ up to speed rather than making the already fast even faster.”
People can sign the CLA petition at http://www.cla.org.uk/Policy_Work/Petitions/
Anybody who cannot access the petition can call the CLA regional office and leave their details to be added to the petition. The CLA in the South West can be contacted on
01249 700200.
Notes:
• Up to 20 percent of rural areas are still unable to receive an effective and affordable broadband connection.
• Up to 35 percent have no access to superfast broadband.
• Over 100,000 rural businesses do not have a broadband connection, leading to a clear rural-urban digital divide.
• Average broadband speeds in the UK are 6.2Mbps. But rural areas are lucky if they can receive 500kbps.
For further information on this news release contact:
Paul Millard CLA SW Communications Manager on 01380 830179
For further information on the CLA go to: www.cla.org.uk
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Planning Policy has Undervalued the Countryside
National planning policy has undervalued the countryside and failed to meet the needs of rural areas for years – according to the CLA, the Country Land and Business Association.
The CLA has now thrown its weights behind the Government’s attempt to rebalance sustainable development in its consultation response to the draft National Planning Policy Framework. The Association warns that if the preservationist lobby gets its way, there is a risk that the 90 percent of countryside currently not built on will simply close down due a lack of inward investment.
CLA South West Director, John Mortimer, said: “Rural businesses and communities have the same needs for jobs, homes and services that urban areas have - but rural England has suffered from urban-centric policies for decades, leading to a countryside that is less sustainable and less self-sufficient.”
The CLA, he said, strongly supported the Government’s attempt to rebalance the economic, social and environmental pillars of sustainable development. The draft NPPF proposes that each pillar should be given equal weight in all planning decisions.
What is needed is a clearly-worded planning policy that encourages a living and working countryside. Management of the landscape and biodiversity so cherished by the public will only happen if it is underpinned by a profitable, sustainable and broader rural economy.”
NOTES TO EDITORS:
1. Read the CLA’s full response to the National Planning Policy Framework consultation
2. The CLA is one of the founding members of the Rural Coalition. The Coalition was brought together by the now defunct Commission for Rural Communities to implement the recommendations made in the Taylor Report “Living Working Countryside”. The group produced its own report entitled “Rural Challenge” in 2010 which set out to show what rural communities need in order to survive. Please visit the CLA website for more information.
3. For more information about the CLA, visit: www.cla.org.uk or follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CLAtweets
4. For Further information on this press release, please contact Paul Millard CLA SW Communications Manager on 01380 830179.
The CLA has now thrown its weights behind the Government’s attempt to rebalance sustainable development in its consultation response to the draft National Planning Policy Framework. The Association warns that if the preservationist lobby gets its way, there is a risk that the 90 percent of countryside currently not built on will simply close down due a lack of inward investment.
CLA South West Director, John Mortimer, said: “Rural businesses and communities have the same needs for jobs, homes and services that urban areas have - but rural England has suffered from urban-centric policies for decades, leading to a countryside that is less sustainable and less self-sufficient.”
The CLA, he said, strongly supported the Government’s attempt to rebalance the economic, social and environmental pillars of sustainable development. The draft NPPF proposes that each pillar should be given equal weight in all planning decisions.
What is needed is a clearly-worded planning policy that encourages a living and working countryside. Management of the landscape and biodiversity so cherished by the public will only happen if it is underpinned by a profitable, sustainable and broader rural economy.”
NOTES TO EDITORS:
1. Read the CLA’s full response to the National Planning Policy Framework consultation
2. The CLA is one of the founding members of the Rural Coalition. The Coalition was brought together by the now defunct Commission for Rural Communities to implement the recommendations made in the Taylor Report “Living Working Countryside”. The group produced its own report entitled “Rural Challenge” in 2010 which set out to show what rural communities need in order to survive. Please visit the CLA website for more information.
3. For more information about the CLA, visit: www.cla.org.uk or follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CLAtweets
4. For Further information on this press release, please contact Paul Millard CLA SW Communications Manager on 01380 830179.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Tax Planning & Asset Preservation - Opportunities & Challenges for the Rural Sector
9.30am registration - 10am presentations – 1pm lunch – 2.00pm tours
Cost £15 CLA members; £25 non-members
At Ugbrooke there is an additional charge payable at the venue for the afternoon tour of £5.00 pp
Wednesday 12 October – Ugbrooke Park, Chudleigh, Devon TQ13 0AD
Tuesday 18 October – Chavenage House, Tetbury, Gloucestershire GL8 8XP
Wednesday 19 October – Hamptworth Estate, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP5 2DR
We are continuing the tradition of holding our annual finance events at some wonderful settings in the West Country. This autumn you can join us for a morning of essential financial advice followed by a two course lunch of local produce and an exclusive guided tour of the venue with our hosts.
The seminars will look at the following topics:
• The latest ideas on minimising Inheritance Tax
• Planning for succession – what to consider
• Agricultural and Property Reliefs – an update
• How to hedge the single farm payment
• Tax efficient trading structures
• Effective management of pensions and investments
Following each seminar there will be a Q&A session with a panel of experts including representatives from CLA Tax Management Services, Roger Halle from CLA Independent Financial Planners, Tom Barclay from CLA Foreign Exchange Services and Will Richards from CLA Fine Art. In addition we will also hear from Jeremy Mitchell from CLA Insurance Services who will talk specifically about insuring estates, farms and diversified businesses.
Ugbrooke House
Ugbrooke House has been the home of the Cliffords since 1564 and is the present Clifford family’s private home. The nation’s history has sported Clifford names in war, politics and religion. The present house was re-modelled in the 1760’s by Robert Adam, the Chapel and Library Wing (where we will hold our seminar) are authentic and characteristic of Adam’s castle style.
Ugbrooke Park is a good example of the work of Capability Brown. The gardens include a box parterre planted over two hundred years ago, a secluded Spanish garden, unusual semi-tropical trees and shrubs and a lakeside walk to the waterslash.
The house contains fine furniture, paintings, beautiful needlework, porcelain and an extremely rare family military collection. Ugbrooke has appeared in television programmes such as David Starkey’s ‘Monachy’. The house has been beautifully restored by Lady Clifford and featured in many leading ‘interiors’ magazines.
Chavenage House
Originally built in 1383, there have been additions and renovations to the property over the centuries. Since Tudor times, only two families have owned Chavenage, the current owner David Lowsley-Williams having inherited the House from his uncle.
Chavenage has been used as a film/TV location on many occasions – an episode of Poirot was shot there, the comedy series ‘Grace & Favour’, an episode of the BBC medical drama Casualty, and recently the house doubled as Sir Timothy Midwinter’s Manor House in ‘Lark Rise to Candleford’. It was seen in the BBC series Bone Kickers and Tess of the D’Urbervilles and featured in BBC3’s ‘For the Love of Barbara’.
We will tour this wonderful Elizabethan home and learn of the two families that have occupied the house since the reign of Elizabeth I together with the legends and stories including the ghosts!
Hamptworth Estate
Situated on the northern edge of the New Forest National Park, half way between Southampton and Salisbury on the Wiltshire/Hampshire border is the beautiful Hamptworth Estate. We will be hosted by Donald Anderson, whose family home it has been for just over 200 years. Hamptworth dates back many centuries and it is thought that the first house was built on the current site of Hamptworth Lodge in around 1620 AD.
The house underwent extensive alteration during the late Georgian and Victorian period and when the present owner's grandfather, Harold Moffatt inherited the estate in 1910, he pulled the house down and rebuilt it as he thought it might well have been in its original form.
The brickwork designs are particularly fine and a feature was made of drain pipes and guttering. Some of the leaded windows have diamond cut inscriptions. Internally, Moffat made much of the furniture himself and these pieces are an accurate copy of the Jacobean Style.
The Estate itself is made up of 3,000 acres of glorious parkland, gardens and woodland and it is forestry that supports the Estate today.
To book your place go to www.regonline.co.uk/claswevents or call 01249 700200.
Cost £15 CLA members; £25 non-members
At Ugbrooke there is an additional charge payable at the venue for the afternoon tour of £5.00 pp
Wednesday 12 October – Ugbrooke Park, Chudleigh, Devon TQ13 0AD
Tuesday 18 October – Chavenage House, Tetbury, Gloucestershire GL8 8XP
Wednesday 19 October – Hamptworth Estate, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP5 2DR
We are continuing the tradition of holding our annual finance events at some wonderful settings in the West Country. This autumn you can join us for a morning of essential financial advice followed by a two course lunch of local produce and an exclusive guided tour of the venue with our hosts.
The seminars will look at the following topics:
• The latest ideas on minimising Inheritance Tax
• Planning for succession – what to consider
• Agricultural and Property Reliefs – an update
• How to hedge the single farm payment
• Tax efficient trading structures
• Effective management of pensions and investments
Following each seminar there will be a Q&A session with a panel of experts including representatives from CLA Tax Management Services, Roger Halle from CLA Independent Financial Planners, Tom Barclay from CLA Foreign Exchange Services and Will Richards from CLA Fine Art. In addition we will also hear from Jeremy Mitchell from CLA Insurance Services who will talk specifically about insuring estates, farms and diversified businesses.
Ugbrooke House
Ugbrooke House has been the home of the Cliffords since 1564 and is the present Clifford family’s private home. The nation’s history has sported Clifford names in war, politics and religion. The present house was re-modelled in the 1760’s by Robert Adam, the Chapel and Library Wing (where we will hold our seminar) are authentic and characteristic of Adam’s castle style.
Ugbrooke Park is a good example of the work of Capability Brown. The gardens include a box parterre planted over two hundred years ago, a secluded Spanish garden, unusual semi-tropical trees and shrubs and a lakeside walk to the waterslash.
The house contains fine furniture, paintings, beautiful needlework, porcelain and an extremely rare family military collection. Ugbrooke has appeared in television programmes such as David Starkey’s ‘Monachy’. The house has been beautifully restored by Lady Clifford and featured in many leading ‘interiors’ magazines.
Chavenage House
Originally built in 1383, there have been additions and renovations to the property over the centuries. Since Tudor times, only two families have owned Chavenage, the current owner David Lowsley-Williams having inherited the House from his uncle.
Chavenage has been used as a film/TV location on many occasions – an episode of Poirot was shot there, the comedy series ‘Grace & Favour’, an episode of the BBC medical drama Casualty, and recently the house doubled as Sir Timothy Midwinter’s Manor House in ‘Lark Rise to Candleford’. It was seen in the BBC series Bone Kickers and Tess of the D’Urbervilles and featured in BBC3’s ‘For the Love of Barbara’.
We will tour this wonderful Elizabethan home and learn of the two families that have occupied the house since the reign of Elizabeth I together with the legends and stories including the ghosts!
Hamptworth Estate
Situated on the northern edge of the New Forest National Park, half way between Southampton and Salisbury on the Wiltshire/Hampshire border is the beautiful Hamptworth Estate. We will be hosted by Donald Anderson, whose family home it has been for just over 200 years. Hamptworth dates back many centuries and it is thought that the first house was built on the current site of Hamptworth Lodge in around 1620 AD.
The house underwent extensive alteration during the late Georgian and Victorian period and when the present owner's grandfather, Harold Moffatt inherited the estate in 1910, he pulled the house down and rebuilt it as he thought it might well have been in its original form.
The brickwork designs are particularly fine and a feature was made of drain pipes and guttering. Some of the leaded windows have diamond cut inscriptions. Internally, Moffat made much of the furniture himself and these pieces are an accurate copy of the Jacobean Style.
The Estate itself is made up of 3,000 acres of glorious parkland, gardens and woodland and it is forestry that supports the Estate today.
To book your place go to www.regonline.co.uk/claswevents or call 01249 700200.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Pillars of Strength - CAP Reform Going Forward (Sponsored by Strutt & Parker)
Cost £10
The European Commission will announce its final proposals for a new direct payment, rural development and financing regulations in early October opening a consultation process likely to last until 2012.
The CLA has been one of only a few organisations fighting for a sufficiently well funded CAP – and the Agriculture Commissioner has listened to our argument that the CAP must be maintained on the grounds of food and environmental security. But a flurry of leaked documents has raised speculation about mandatory greening in pillar one, capping and the definitions of an active farmer.
There are further concerns over the issue of new entitlements and the specifics of mandatory greening.
All this is set against a backdrop of an EU budget which has already been drawn up – but the share of the CAP within the budget and how the CAP resources are to be redistributed between the Member States and between the two Pillars are areas of uncertainty which could have important implications for the UK.
But the fight on the CAP budget is not over yet and the negotiations that follow the publication of these proposals will be crucial. These proposals have now to be agreed with the European Council and the European Parliament and the questions of exactly what the CLA should be arguing for on behalf of our farmers and land managers needs to be resolved.
This is your chance to take part in that process and to hear Emeritus Professor Allan Buckwell, the CLA’s expert on CAP, speak on the subject together with Simon Butcher, a farm business consultant from Strutt and Parker, at a series of events the CLA is organising across the South West region.
Registration & refreshments from 10.00am & 3.00pm
Wednesday 23 November 2011 10.30am – 12.30pm
Tunnell House Inn, Tarlton Road, Nr Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 6PW
Wednesday 23 November 2011 3.30pm – 5.30pm
Salisbury and South Wilts Golf Club, Netherhampton Road, Netherhampton
Salisbury, Wiltshire SP2 8PR
Thursday 24 November 2011 10.30am – 12.30pm
The Monks Yard, Horton Cross Farm, Horton Cross, Ilminster, Somerset
TA19 9PT
Thursday 24 November 2011 3.30pm – 5.30pm
The Arundell Arms, Lifton, PL16 0AA
To book go to www.regonline.co.uk/claswevents or telephone 01249 700200.
The European Commission will announce its final proposals for a new direct payment, rural development and financing regulations in early October opening a consultation process likely to last until 2012.
The CLA has been one of only a few organisations fighting for a sufficiently well funded CAP – and the Agriculture Commissioner has listened to our argument that the CAP must be maintained on the grounds of food and environmental security. But a flurry of leaked documents has raised speculation about mandatory greening in pillar one, capping and the definitions of an active farmer.
There are further concerns over the issue of new entitlements and the specifics of mandatory greening.
All this is set against a backdrop of an EU budget which has already been drawn up – but the share of the CAP within the budget and how the CAP resources are to be redistributed between the Member States and between the two Pillars are areas of uncertainty which could have important implications for the UK.
But the fight on the CAP budget is not over yet and the negotiations that follow the publication of these proposals will be crucial. These proposals have now to be agreed with the European Council and the European Parliament and the questions of exactly what the CLA should be arguing for on behalf of our farmers and land managers needs to be resolved.
This is your chance to take part in that process and to hear Emeritus Professor Allan Buckwell, the CLA’s expert on CAP, speak on the subject together with Simon Butcher, a farm business consultant from Strutt and Parker, at a series of events the CLA is organising across the South West region.
Registration & refreshments from 10.00am & 3.00pm
Wednesday 23 November 2011 10.30am – 12.30pm
Tunnell House Inn, Tarlton Road, Nr Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 6PW
Wednesday 23 November 2011 3.30pm – 5.30pm
Salisbury and South Wilts Golf Club, Netherhampton Road, Netherhampton
Salisbury, Wiltshire SP2 8PR
Thursday 24 November 2011 10.30am – 12.30pm
The Monks Yard, Horton Cross Farm, Horton Cross, Ilminster, Somerset
TA19 9PT
Thursday 24 November 2011 3.30pm – 5.30pm
The Arundell Arms, Lifton, PL16 0AA
To book go to www.regonline.co.uk/claswevents or telephone 01249 700200.
Bringing Common Sense to Tree Management
Stock Gaylard Estate, Stock Gaylard, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2BG
Tuesday 15 November – 2pm – 5.30pm
Cost £15 CLA members; £25 non-members
The venue is CLA member Andrew Langmead’s Stock Gaylard Estate, a small traditional country estate situated between Sturminster Newton and Sherborne in Dorset. The estate is approximately 1700 acres with around 300 acres of predominantly oak woodland (Quercus robur) and ash (Fraxinus Excelsior).
Stock Gaylard has a small timber yard supplying mainly home grown timbers off the estate and other locally sourced timbers. They have worked hard to understand the importance of trying to develop a sustainable timber industry within the UK and on the estate. They pride themselves in understanding the importance of cutting the timber the right way for the purpose it is intended for. They have a timber kiln for finishing off the drying process and a fully equipped wood workshop. Stock Gaylard’s timber has many uses including woodchip for their boiler, furniture, shingles and it is also used in the manufacture of their traditional Yurts.
The afternoon will kick off with a welcome and introduction to Stock Gaylard Estate and its various enterprises by owner Andrew Langmead.
Mike Seville, CLA National Forestry & Woodlands Advisor will then explain the benefits and the impact of the newly published guidance by the National Tree Safety Group "Bringing Common Sense to Tree Management".
This guidance on trees and public safety in the UK for owners, managers and advisers has been quite brave and is trying to redraw the legal landscape relating to tree safety and put it firmly in the context of real risk, other risks to which society is exposed and the benefits of trees. The CLA has been instrumental in driving this approach forward.
Garraint Richards, Duchy of Cornwall Woodlands will share his practical experience of woodland management along with his view on the current timber market. Followed by a tree disease update and forecast from the Forestry Commission. Closing with Graham Clark, CLA Regional Surveyor; explaining how members can benefit from the new Renewable Heat Incentive.
This event is not only aimed at large woodland owners and managers but also those responsible for smaller numbers of trees where members are concerned about how proactive they need to be in regards tree safety management in order to mitigate their liability to third parties.
To book your place go to www.regonline.co.uk/claswevents or call 01249 700200
Tuesday 15 November – 2pm – 5.30pm
Cost £15 CLA members; £25 non-members
The venue is CLA member Andrew Langmead’s Stock Gaylard Estate, a small traditional country estate situated between Sturminster Newton and Sherborne in Dorset. The estate is approximately 1700 acres with around 300 acres of predominantly oak woodland (Quercus robur) and ash (Fraxinus Excelsior).
Stock Gaylard has a small timber yard supplying mainly home grown timbers off the estate and other locally sourced timbers. They have worked hard to understand the importance of trying to develop a sustainable timber industry within the UK and on the estate. They pride themselves in understanding the importance of cutting the timber the right way for the purpose it is intended for. They have a timber kiln for finishing off the drying process and a fully equipped wood workshop. Stock Gaylard’s timber has many uses including woodchip for their boiler, furniture, shingles and it is also used in the manufacture of their traditional Yurts.
The afternoon will kick off with a welcome and introduction to Stock Gaylard Estate and its various enterprises by owner Andrew Langmead.
Mike Seville, CLA National Forestry & Woodlands Advisor will then explain the benefits and the impact of the newly published guidance by the National Tree Safety Group "Bringing Common Sense to Tree Management".
This guidance on trees and public safety in the UK for owners, managers and advisers has been quite brave and is trying to redraw the legal landscape relating to tree safety and put it firmly in the context of real risk, other risks to which society is exposed and the benefits of trees. The CLA has been instrumental in driving this approach forward.
Garraint Richards, Duchy of Cornwall Woodlands will share his practical experience of woodland management along with his view on the current timber market. Followed by a tree disease update and forecast from the Forestry Commission. Closing with Graham Clark, CLA Regional Surveyor; explaining how members can benefit from the new Renewable Heat Incentive.
This event is not only aimed at large woodland owners and managers but also those responsible for smaller numbers of trees where members are concerned about how proactive they need to be in regards tree safety management in order to mitigate their liability to third parties.
To book your place go to www.regonline.co.uk/claswevents or call 01249 700200
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