Richard Turner & Son, Bentham (Nr Lancaster),

Thanks to our expertise and long experience of working with farmers across the North West, Cumbria and Yorkshire, Richard Turner & Son can help you with any agricultural, machinery and livestock dispersal sales. We can provide on-farm and on-site dispersal sales for both livestock and machinery. This is often ideal for those who are wishing to retire or reduce their on-farm commitments.

In addition to this, we are also long standing auctioneers and secretaries for Bentham Auction market, which conduct regular weekly livestock and seasonal machinery sales.

Richard Turner & Son Estate Agents have a team of experienced valuers who are ready to provide clients with accurate, point of market valuation advice.

Over the decades, we have built up a strong relationship and links with rural communities. As a result of this, our valuers have an unrivalled depth of knowledge of the rural industry, with a primary focus on farms and estates. This includes residential and commercial properties, development land and planning as well as land with sporting rights.

Richard Turner & Son can offer valuation services for a variety of purposes, including:

• Bank Valuations
• Sales and Acquisitions
• Tax Planning and Accounting
• Annual Reports
• Dispute Resolution
• Secured Lending
• Investment Portfolios
• Statutory Tax Purposes and Transfers
• Appraisals and Strategic Reviews

Richard Turner & Son provides clients with specialist professional representation with regards to any utility or compensation matters. Our experienced team will act on behalf of individuals affected by compulsory purchase on road schemes or any other compensation matters arising out of water, electricity, gas and any other linear infrastructure schemes. We can advise you on the best ways to protect your interests as well as identifying ways in which schemes can be used to maximise the potential of a holding.

There is a right to claim compensation if a utility company takes entry under the statute to lay pipes across your land. In every case, utility companies and statutory undertakers have a duty to pay compensation for crop losses, damage, loss of development potential and the value of the easement they are acquiring.

The qualified Land Agents at Richard Turner & Son specialise in matters relating to pipelines, compensation, compulsory purchase, Wayleaves and Easements and would be happy to help you with a claim.

Examples of the things we can help with include:

• New gas or water pipeline schemes
• Highway improvement or widening schemes
• Accommodation works, early entry negotiations and general supervision
• Ownership notice enquiries
• Compensation assessment and negotiation including land taken, disturbance, inconvenience and land & surface damage
• Record of conditions
• Environment Agency watercourse improvements
• Blight and purchase notices

Qualified experts at Richard Turner & Son are trusted by a number of landlords and tenants across the Lancashire, Cumbria and Yorkshire regions. Working closely with a range of landowners, our experts can provide professional guidance with regards to agricultural tenancies and the letting of farm holdings.

Whatever your requirements, Richard Turner & Son are on-hand and will deliver a personable service from a team that you can trust. Our roots within the agricultural industry go back hundreds of years, so you can relax safe in the knowledge that your requirements will be handled by somebody with unrivalled expertise.

We can provide landlord and tenant services for:

• Preparation of tenancy and licence agreements
• Rent Reviews
• Surrender of tenancy agreements
• Tenant right valuations
• Tenancy successions
• Tender applications for farms and land
• Schedules of condition
• Dispute settlement
• Overseeing repairs and maintenance
• Long term estate planning
• Diversification
• Tax planning
• Dilapidation claims

Richard Turner & Son regularly carry out independent auction sales of agricultural and residential property, land, farms and estates. Our end-to-end auctioneering service makes for a quick and hassle-free process for no-obligation advice and valuations right through to marketing the whole package from start to finish.

Choosing whether to sell your property through an auction depends on a range of circumstances. Benefits of choosing the auctioneering method include greater transactional speed, certainty and transparency over a private treaty sale. Because of this, auctions are a popular way of achieving these goals and Richard Turner & Son are best placed to help with your requirements.

Here are just a few examples of properties that we have provided auctioneering services for:

• Agricultural land and buildings
• Farms
• Rural Estates
• Residential Property
• Paddocks and woodland
• Development property and land (with or without planning consent)
• Commercial units with part residential
• Time-pressured sales
• Ground rents
• Commercial property
• Licensed trade - pubs, clubs, guest houses, hotels and restaurants

Richard Turner & Son are also auctioneers and secretaries to Bentham Auction Mart in the Yorkshire Dales. We facilitate the weekly sales of fatstock, breeding stock, store stock and machinery auctions at both sites.

We are also able to offer an on-farm dispersal, progeny and deplenishment sales on behalf of our clients.

Richard Turner & Son has been working closely with farmers across Northern England for many decades. As such, many farmers in the area rely on us to provide expert, specialist and practical advice on the preparation of accurate stocktaking valuations which comply with RICS Valuation, in line with professional standards.

We look after any complicated matters so that you can get back to doing what you do best. Here are just a few examples of what our livestock stocktaking service can offer:

• Preparation of valuations for Income and Corporation Tax purposes
• Advice to farmers and accountants in the preparation of valuations
• Assistance in investigations into annual stock valuations (ASV's)
• Advice on record-keeping for the farmer
• Cost-efficient preparation of valuations

Richard Turner & Son are able to provide professional advice regarding all aspects of the basic payment scheme and environmental schemes (old and new). This includes Countryside Stewardship, Capital Grant Schemes, Hedgerow and Boundary Grants, Countryside Productivity Schemes and the Historic Higher Level and Entry-Level Stewardship. We offer assistance with applications, entitlements, annual claims, capital works claims as well as land transfers and amendments.

At present, we are trusted by over 500 existing basic payment scheme clients across our three offices in the North West of England, with clients ranging from individual farmers and landowners to rural estates. Our experienced team possesses the expertise and knowledge to provide comprehensive advice on Scheme Registration, entitlements (including national reserve applications), land mapping issues, land and entitlement transfers, completion of annual claims/applications, the Young Farmer Scheme, checking claim statements and entitlement status as well as Cross-Compliance and Greening requirements. For anybody looking to take land or farms on longer-term agreements we can prepare business plans and budgets to support tenancy and contract farming tenders. Richard Turner & Son can also handle short term land occupation arrangements from finding occupiers to managing existing agreements.