Rural Practice Chartered Surveyor with considerable expert witness & litigation experience, including: • Arbitration & Higher Tier Tribunals • Banking & other business & property disputes • Farm business advice, including finance & business restructuring • Agricultural insolvency & receivership • Planning & development • Agricultural tenancies, including as an adviser to Defra as a member of the Farm Tenancy Forum • Chairs the RICS Agricultural Tenancies Monitoring Group • Valuation • Boundaries • Experience includes county...

Land drainage • Flood risk • Soil surveys • Soil husbandry • Land restoration • Water holdings structures/constructed wetlands • Natural flood management • Diffuse Water Pollution from Agriculture (DWPA) • Particular experience of soils and drainage along cross-country construction projects, such as pipeline installations • Providing consultancy and expert witness for soils and drainage disputes related to land development, land severance and breaches in land drainage law in England and Wales

Mathematical/hydraulic modelling of rivers or estuaries • Hydrology, water quality, hydromorphology/geomorphology • Dam break modelling • Professional indemnity insurance claims • Professional negligence claims • Small- and large-scale drainage • Flood risk management and modelling • Impact of infrastructure failure • Planning issues associated with flood risk • Environment Agency flood zone mapping • Impact of flood defence construction • Flood risk mitigation measures • Damage caused by flooding

I specialise in all matters relating to • • Gamekeeping • Pest and predator control • Sporting shooting, including safety, competence, firearms usage and compliance with best practice • Legal and illegal traps and trapping • Poaching of gamebirds, hare, rabbit, deer and fish • Hunting with hounds, terriers and coursing dogs

Iain specialises in the valuation of residential, commercial, agricultural and forested real estate in the rural and market town sector in Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and the Home Counties. He also provides advice on many rural estate and development issues, including the value of restrictive covenants. Iain has 30 years' experience of the real estate sector, providing valuation, planning and estate management advice and services to Central and Local Government, charitable sector and private landowners. 17 years...

Rural & agricultural property: • Agricultural landlord & tenant disputes, Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 & Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 • Rent reviews, notice to quit & remedy of breaches of terms of tenancies • Valuations of farm & rural property • Freehold & tenancy valuations • Rental & capital valuations • Compulsory purchases & compensation • Divorce • Family disputes • Partnership & company valuations • Inheritance & capital gains tax valuations • Leasehold enfranchisement • Valuation for insolvency & receivership • Farm...