In Wales the work for farming businesses includes sale and purchase of farms, agricultural tenancies and grazing licences, landlord and tenant disputes, lending and security, succession and estate planning for rural businesses, contract farming and diversification projects, claims and compliance for devolved farm payments and grants, environmental regulation enforced by Natural Resources Wales, planning and development administered through local planning authorities and Welsh Ministers, employment of farm workers, and disputes over rights of way and sporting rights. Solicitors prepare sale contracts and transfers for registration, advise on the effect of agricultural tenancy legislation as applied locally, draft and negotiate tenancy, licence and joint‑venture agreements, structure farming businesses and trusts for succession, help compile and manage farm payment and grant claims administered through the Welsh payments body, advise on environmental permitting and cross‑compliance with Welsh schemes, and represent clients before local planning authorities, Welsh Ministers on appeals, and in civil courts or alternative dispute resolution. Welsh agricultural funding arrangements, environmental stewardship schemes and planning policy shape timing and risk in many matters.
What a solicitor handles in these matters
Advisory and transactional work turns on devolved funding rules, register and title formalities and planning and environmental permissions administered by Welsh bodies. A solicitor handles drafting and negotiating tenancy and commercial agreements, preparing deeds and registrations, structuring partnerships or corporate vehicles for farms, navigating Welsh payments and grant application and compliance procedures, and dealing with planning and environmental consents where Welsh policy and scheme rules affect viability.
Your solicitor
Sarah Jarrett
Partner - Head of Commercial, Agriculture & New Build Conveyancing
