FGP InTouch

With the long awaited Agriculture Bill stuck all last year, a stop gap version, The Farm Payments Bill, has been introduced to Parliament to allow ongoing support payments to farmers in 2020.

In lighter moments FGP staff are as animated as with anything, when discussing the best car choices to fit with varied work demands.

FGP have made themselves known in a series of University Career fairs this year including ‘Ag Live’.

Throughout 2019, FGP ‘In Touch’ has “touched” upon areas of case law of relevance to the Company’s operations acting for acquirers in the infrastructure development world.

More and more, the concept of carbon neutrality is understood by the person in the street.

Amazon will take power from a wind farm in Scotland and more solar in the US, in the latest expansion of its renewable energy commitments.

Remembrance Day is a poignant moment to reflect on the supreme efforts of our forebears in the two world wars and other conflicts.

For an unwary infrastructure developer using powers of compulsory purchase, Certificates of Appropriate Alternative Development (CAAD) can lead to unexpected compensation sums to a landowner.

A draft document has been commissioned by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Doubts over the future of the HS2 Rail Project have been raised by the well-publicised Department of Transport

In a recent edition we covered Tribunal cases that tested the latest Telecom Powers.

The settlement of farmer compensation claims is a major part of FGP’s annual workload. Farm outputs are notoriously difficult to predict with so much dependant on weather during the growing months.

Or so the soft tones of actor Leslie Phillips concluded in the 90’s Heineken Advertisement, where one utility operator asks another if they can share the same trench

In December 2017 a new Electronic Communications Code took effect under the Telecoms legislation to make it easier for network operators to install and maintain apparatus

FGP are proud sponsors of Ethan Havard who at the age of 18 has been given a professional contract with the legendary Wigan Warriors