Projects

Delivering outstanding design

The vision for this project was to create an outstanding private country home in a heritage park and gardens landscape setting.

Nevill Holt Opera

A stunning rural theatre created to house an opera charity dedicated to introducing young people to classical music.

Wiston: a precedent for the estate and planning sectors

The Wiston WEP (whole estate plan) was the first estate strategy formally accepted as a material planning consideration.

An exceptional lakeside country house

A lakeside Paragraph 84e home in rural Surrey with particularly challenging planning and landscape constraints.

Farm shop, café & play

Expansion of an established family farm shop and Pick-Your-Own business in the Green Belt.

The Angel Inn at Hetton

Redevelopment of a 15th Century Inn to create a contemporary fine dining destination with original features retained and restored.

A new community for Cambridge

Green space design for 2,500 new homes for one of the UK’s largest housing developers.

New HQ for Thwaites Brewery

A new headquarters capable of accommodating this growing family business.

A landmark development for a national organisation

The redevelopment of British Naturism’s flagship venue to create high-end camping and glamping facilities, a new events space, and a luxurious day spa.

A dramatic Paragraph 84 family home

A contemporary, net-zero family house integrated with the landscape, built from local natural stone and timbers.

Award-winning replacement house design

A planning application for a replacement dwelling in a National Landscape (AONB), which had been refused twice and dismissed at appeal.

Shaping heritage restoration for the future

The development of four individual country homes within an estate’s listed park and gardens.

Sensitively designed estate-led housing

Planning achieved for high-quality village housing in a conservation area for the Belsay Estate.

Reinstatement of a country house

An innovative new country house created from the ruins of a country manor with significant heritage assets restored.

Estate scale strategies

Strategies, masterplans and whole estate plans for a range of rural estates

A bold and innovative approach to circular farming

Planning achieved for a large-scale strawberry-growing glasshouse complex for Dyson Farming in Lincolnshire

Natural capital baselining at Castle Howard

Supporting the transition to a land management approach to protect and regenerate the 9,000 acre site for future generations, with a science-led natural capital baselining exercise.

Redeveloping redundant agricultural buildings to create a unique family attraction

The redevelopment of a farmyard and associated buildings at Hockerhill Farm into a children’s play attraction.

Rural estate business park

Prestwick Hall Farm, located just north of Newcastle Airport, is one of Rural Solutions’ longest standing clients. We first started working with the Wilson family in 2005 and continue to work with them now, almost 20 years later.

Watatunga Wildlife Reserve

Regeneration of a redundant quarry to create a unique new conservation facility and visitor attraction, providing habitats for rare species and offering accommodation and guided tours to visitors.