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The Impact Of Adventure Tourism On The Welsh Economy
The Impact Of Adventure Tourism On The Welsh Economy. In 2014, the North Wales outdoor activity business was worth £480m with approx 600 providers, creating just over 8000 jobs.
What will Gove’s ‘Green Brexit’ mean for Rural Wales?
What will the Environment Secretary’s ‘Green Brexit’ announcement mean for farmers and landowners in Wales? We consider the post-EU challenges and opportunities for estates in rural Wales.
Council Tax changes to second homes and holiday properties in Gwynedd
From 1st April 2018 second home and holiday cottage owners in Gwynedd will pay 50% more on their council tax bill. We look at the changes & exemptions.
Try-before-you-buy: 1040 Acres of Land and Sporting Rights | Bugeilyn Moor
A North Wales agent is inviting potential buyers to experience a tutored wilderness immersion weekend in order to ‘test-drive’ being the landowner.
Top Ten Tips For Buying Rural Property in North Wales
Here are our top ten tips for buying rural property in North Wales. Considerations such as utilities, infrastructure and local planning restrictions.
Time to change how we assess business rates for hydro
Anticipating the Chancellor’s Budget in March 2017, the chief executive of the British Hydropower Association (BHA) – of which we are members – Simon Hamlyn, warned that the business rates system for hydroelectric schemes was “fundamentally flawed” and needed “urgent attention”. We’re inclined to agree. Simon’s voice was one of many in the industry that has expressed concern about the Government’s business rates re-evaluation recently. As a result of the recent changes, some small businesses in the renewables sector will now see their business rates increase by as much as 900%. Clearly, this kind of hike in taxation could be devastating…
A Source of Clean, Efficient and Reliable Energy | All Power To Hydro Power
Ever since man first used a waterwheel to break grain around two thousand years ago, water has been used as a source of clean, efficient and reliable energy. As early as the 1770s – and well before our Victorian forefathers had hydroelectricity figured out – water was powering spinning wheels in Lancashire cotton mills and the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. It was the Victorian industrialist and inventor William Armstrong who first managed to generate electricity from falling water in 1878. Within just twenty years of his ground-breaking discovery hydropower had ‘boomed’ and there were hundreds of hydroelectricity plants in…
Timber Business Investment Scheme | Financial support through the RDP
Timber Business Investment Scheme. Financial support available from the Welsh Government through the RDP (Rural Development Programme).
Reimagining the land: how to breathe new life into old industry
Wales has a proud industrial heritage: from coal, iron, steel and slate to cotton, wool, copper and tinplate, it has left an indelible mark on our landscapes and culture. It’s part of who we are. It might surprise you to know that – in this great farming nation of ours – two thirds of Welsh families in the mid-19th century made their living outside of agriculture. A little more than a century and a half ago, Wales was the world’s second industrial nation. But whilst farming is still a very significant part of our economy, those heavy industries of the…
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