The Government’s revised planning policies offer opportunities for landowners and developers to create more homes more quickly – without compromising on the provision of essential infrastructure or abandoning high quality design.

Handing over control of the Escrick Park Estate in Yorkshire to his son, Beilby, was “quite a challenge,” Charlie Forbes Adam admits in the latest Estate Matters podcast from KOR Communications.

The management of the nine estates spread across England that make up the land holdings of The Ernest Cook Trust is carried out with a clear focus on the Trust’s primary purpose as an education-based charity. 

There is a good story to tell about the production of ‘green gas’ – and landowners and farmers producing the raw material at the start of the process can be proud of what they do and should be ready to talk about it, says Philipp Lukas, Chief Executive Officer of Future Biogas.

Creating affordable housing that is no different in quality to homes built for open market sale is a matter of huge pride for the Duchy of Cornwall at its two high-profile developments, Poundbury in Dorset and Nansledan in Cornwall.

Duchy Estates Director Ben Murphy tells the latest episode of KOR Communications’ Estate Matters podcast that more than a third of the homes built at Poundbury, the Duchy’s community on the edge of Dorchester where work began more than 30 years ago, are affordable.

Farmers must be valued for managing the landscape and protecting and enhancing nature as well as for producing food, if wildlife-depleted Britain is to improve its environment and continue to feed its population.

That’s the message from Molly Biddell, Head of Natural Capital at the Knepp Estate in Sussex, a trailblazing 3,500-acre rewilding project which abandoned traditional farming 20 years ago and has become one of the UK’s most biodiverse nature reserves.

CLA President and Cornish rural estate owner Victoria Vyvyan believes the new Labour Government and its Defra team are listening to voices from the countryside in essential areas of policy, including planning, farming and energy.

KOR Communications’ podcast, Estate Matters, is celebrating its first anniversary after a remarkable twelve months with guests providing insights across the rural and development sectors, from farming to journalism, politics to housing.

Minette Batters led the National Farmers’ Union during the most tumultuous times in decades for British agriculture, as the nation faced Brexit, the Covid pandemic and the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.