* Please note these are the 2021 speakers, updated lineup coming soon
CLA Speakers
Diversification into new areas of business – making your land, property and business assets work harder – is increasingly popular, and brings new income streams. However, many landowners have been talked into new ventures by salesmen and consultants that then go on to become costly mistakes. It is vital that you have independent, impartial, and expert help and advice. And that is where the CLA can help.
The CLA not only has its own advisers in all the core areas you need – land use, law, taxation and planning – but they almost certainly have members around the country who have already undertaken a similar venture. They understand what income you could realistically earn and, more importantly, they know the potential pitfalls. All this advice is free to CLA members.
At the show, CLA experts will be presenting seminars on a range of topics that will be essential for anyone considering a diversification project.
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Wednesday
Hermione Warmington - CLA
Decarbonising rural buildings
10.45 - 11.15
With buildings accounting for nearly one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK, and the government committed to reaching its ambitious net-zero target by 2050, emissions from buildings need to be almost entirely eliminated. The next ten years will be full of regulatory changes to drive decarbonisation. This seminar will look at current and future policy and examine the three core ways to decarbonise buildings, to help businesses prepare for the upcoming changes.
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Dr Charles Trotman - CLA
Rebuilding your business in the “new normal”
11.30 - 12.00
Rural businesses will have been dramatically affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, some to the point of closure. More than ever it is important for businesses to be able to rebuild at a time of fundamental change. This seminar will examine what businesses need to consider when operating in the changed marketplace and how they can remain sustainable.
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Andrew Shirley MRICS - CLA
Making the most of your assets
12.15 - 12.45
It is important to constantly reassess the potential of your business. How can you make your assets work harder to maintain income and increase profitability? This seminar will take you through how to review your assets and prepare an Asset Management Plan, identify opportunities and create an action plan
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Fenella Collins MRICS - CLA
Planning for the future
13.30- 14.00
This seminar will provide an assessment of the Government’s planning white paper “Planning for the future” and those elements of the Environment Bill that will impact planning applications, and what this means for rural businesses.
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Cameron Hughes - CLA
New farming markets and innovations
14.15 - 14.45
This seminar will explore some of the developing markets and innovations in agriculture including aeroponics, bioenergy crops and data gathering techniques.
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Harry Greenfield - CLA
Environmental markets: new opportunities for farmers and land managers
15.00 - 15.30
As environmental issues rise up the agenda, the Government, the public and businesses are looking at ways to improve the natural environment. Farmers and land managers are uniquely placed to deliver a wide range of environmental public goods – from clean water to thriving wildlife – and to be rewarded for doing so. This seminar will look at a range of opportunities including new ecological markets, government-funded schemes and private sector investment in natural capital.
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Thursday
Andrew Shirley MRICS - CLA
Making the most of your assets
10.45 - 11.15
It is important to constantly reassess the potential of your business. How can you make your assets work harder to maintain income and increase profitability? This seminar will take you through how to review your assets and prepare an Asset Management Plan, identify opportunities and create an action plan
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Fenella Collins MRICS - CLA
Planning for the future
11.30 - 12.00
This seminar will provide an assessment of the Government’s planning white paper “Planning for the future” and those elements of the Environment Bill that will impact planning applications, and what this means for rural businesses.
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Alice Green - CLA
Climate change resilience – opportunities for mitigation and adaptation
12.15 - 12.45
Land managers are facing the dual pressures of reducing emissions while also adapting to a warmer world. The water environment will bear the brunt of the climate crisis, with summers 7.4°C hotter, summer rainfall decreasing by up to 62% and winter rainfall increasing by 59% by 2050. This seminar will cover the ways land managers can start increasing resilience to climate change, covering water quality, water management, flood and drought.
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Dr Charles Trotman - CLA
Rebuilding your business in the “new normal”
13.30 - 14.00
Rural businesses will have been dramatically affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, some to the point of closure. More than ever it is important for businesses to be able to rebuild at a time of fundamental change. This seminar will examine what businesses need to consider when operating in the changed marketplace and how they can remain sustainable.
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Harry Greenfield - CLA
Environmental markets: new opportunities for farmers and land managers
14.15 - 14.45
As environmental issues rise up the agenda, the Government, the public and businesses are looking at ways to improve the natural environment. Farmers and land managers are uniquely placed to deliver a wide range of environmental public goods – from clean water to thriving wildlife – and to be rewarded for doing so. This seminar will look at a range of opportunities including new ecological markets, government-funded schemes and private sector investment in natural capital.
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Graham Clark MRICS - CLA
Why create woodlands? The potential of trees in rural enterprise
15.00 - 15.30
This seminar will look at the main opportunities and constraints presented by the key funding opportunities for creating woodlands, including the England Woodland Creation Offer, carbon funding and the possible role for woodlands in Defra’s emerging Environmental Land Management schemes.
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