Professional Advice
Adviser ContactsChristopher Price – Legal and Policy Director A solicitor, advises on national and European public and administrative law issues including human rights, judicial review, planning and compulsory purchase, public rights of way, rating and council tax and various regulatory matters. Also advises on the law concerning field sports. Helen Shipsey – Senior Legal Adviser Called to the Bar in 1991, in Chambers until 1997 when she joined the CLA. Advises on grazing tenancies, agricultural holdings legislation, farm business tenancies, residential landlord and tenant, public rights of way and the Treasure Act. Harry Flanagan – Legal Adviser A solicitor, advises on all aspects of residential landlord and tenant legislation including farm cottages, the housing of agricultural workers and service occupancies. Also advises on public rights of way and ballooning. Roger Tetlow – Legal Adviser A solicitor, advises on general property law, including land registration, conveyancing, business tenancies, easements, private rights of way, commons, water and drainage and sporting rights. Roberta Sacaloff – Legal Adviser A solicitor, advises on areas including employment, litigation, contract and sale of goods. Sarah Slade MRICS – National Access Adviser A chartered surveyor with responsibility for CLA policy on public rights of way and access issues. Provides advice to members on issues arising from public access to the countryside. Adrian Baird – Chief Taxation Adviser Formerly an Inland Revenue Tax Inspector in Leicestershire. He was promoted to the Inland Revenue Policy Division at Somerset House, London, and was an Inspector Principal when he joined the CLA. Richard Williams – Taxation Adviser A tax consultant with over 30 years’ experience in the legal profession and with the CLA, where he worked between 1976 and 1986. He is the editor of two technical newsletters, "Farm Tax Brief" and "Trusts and Estates". Patricia Powell – Taxation and Rural Business Adviser Formerly a private banking consultant working in London, Guildford and Norwich for some 20 years. She has a broad range of experience in financial issues.
In addition to advising on taxation issues, also advises on potential solutions to rural business problems and assesses specific members' queries for referral to relevant CLA advisers. Emeritus Professor Allan Buckwell – Policy Director Has overall responsibility for the co-ordination and delivery of all policy affecting land use. Ensures that the CLA promotes policies that are distinctive and benefit members. Is responsible for strategic thinking on major land use issues and promoting CLA profile across relevant UK and EU institutions. He chairs the European Landowners Organisation (ELO) Policy Group and co-ordinates CLA relations with the ELO. Derek Holliday – Head of Environment Lead adviser on European and national environmental issues including water quality (Water Framework Directive, Catchment Sensitive Farming, Nitrates Directive), water resources, fluvial and coastal defence, soil resource, climate change and fisheries. Claire Collyer – Conservation Adviser Advises on agri-environment grant schemes, SPS, cross compliance, designated areas (including SSSIs, SACs and SPAs) and the greening of the CAP. Mike Seville – Forestry and Woodlands Adviser Advises on aspects of forestry and woodland management including grants, regulation, marketing and utilisation, timber transport, non-timber forest products, wood fuel, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, plant health, deer and squirrels. Oliver Harwood FRICS – Chief Surveyor Responsible for national land use policy issues, and lead author of the draft renewable energy policy. Also provides advice to members on land use issues, including farming, alternative enterprise, minerals, shooting and wayleaves and easements. Dr Charles Trotman – Head of Rural Business Development An economist, advises on rural economic issues, particularly food policy, rural tourism, equine issues and telecommunications policy. Fenella Collins MRICS – Head of Planning A chartered surveyor with responsibility for CLA policy on planning and housing issues. Advises on policy including national, regional and local planning and the community infrastructure levy. Jonathan Thompson MA MBA DipM – Heritage Adviser Advises on heritage policy, historic and listed buildings, scheduled
monuments and archaeology, parks and gardens, viable uses and grants. Jim Webster – Livestock Adviser Advises on livestock movements, livestock register, veterinary medicines, TB, British Cattle Movement System, RPA and livestock based cross compliance issues. Andrew Shirley MRICS – Regional Surveyor A chartered surveyor. Rob Wise – Regional Adviser A regional adviser who handles environmental issues affecting landowners, including implementation of the Water Framework Directive and Nitrate Vulnerable Zones, waste, fly-tipping and agri-environment schemes, rural grants, coastal defences and coastal access. He will also be dealing with political matters at all levels of local, national and EU government.
Rob grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and went on to work on farm policy in the U.S. government in Washington D.C. before returning to the UK where he worked in agricultural government relations before joining the CLA.
Tim Isaac MRICS FAAV – Regional Adviser - Eastern Region Tim has a degree in agriculture and is a qualified rural surveyor, specialising in farm and estate management. He runs a number of small-scale livestock and forestry enterprises on his family's livestock farm in north-east Essex.
Tim is also the CLA's Eastern Region Surveyor, advising and representing members on all aspects of rural business management and lobbying all levels of government on key rural issues. Jane Harrison – Regional Adviser - Yorkshire A regional adviser, covers Yorkshire. Helen Lancaster MRICS – Regional Adviser - North West & East A chartered surveyor, covers Cheshire, Cumbria, Durham/Cleveland, Lancashire, Northumberland. Charlotte Sealy MSc MRICS – Regional surveyor - South West Chartered Surveyor. Graham Clark MSc MRICS – Regional surveyor - South West Chartered Surveyor. Donna Tavernor – Regional Adviser - West Midlands A regional adviser, covers Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire. Tim Broomhead – Regional surveyor Tim Broomhead is regional surveyor and covers the whole South East region. He is based at Forton. Dawn Harding-Maddocks MRICS – Assistant Director Wales (North) A chartered surveyor, Dawn covers Anglesey, Caernarfon, Clwyd, Meirionnydd, Powys (Montgomeryshire). A Welsh farmer's daughter, she read land management at Harper Adams University College. She is a specialist in rural property management and runs a smallholding with her husband. Sue Evans MRICS MCIArb – Policy Adviser - Wales A chartered surveyor, Sue is a Welsh-speaking farmer's daughter from Anglesey. She studied Estate Management at Harper Adams University College and is also a qualified mediator.
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