Mike Cluley Rural Surveying

03/04/2026

Grazing / Cutting Grass available at Tirley and Chaceley.

Deadline for offers - Midday 22nd April.

09/03/2026

Last Wednesday it was the Gloucestershire and District Agricultural Valuer Association's AGM at the RAU and I was delighted (and somewhat surprised) to recieve the Christopher Graham Memorial Award for 2026. The award was for my contribution to the association and for representing the GDAVA on the CAAV Council for the past 10 years and also sitting on the Electricity and Telecoms Working Groups. If I'd known I was getting the award then I "may" have dressed up a "bit" smarter?!

26/02/2026

Grant Updates for 2026:

24/02/2026

There have been a few announcements as to the grant offerings for 2026. The first launch being another round of the FETF Scheme opening on 17th March. It is confirmed that this will be the last FETF round in its current form. Further details here:

Applications for the next round of the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF 2026) open on 17 March. The guidance is now live, and we’re hosting a webinar to help you prepare.

22/05/2025

Approx 135 acres of mowing grass for sale by Tender - Severn Ham Hay Sale 2025.

Please message if you would like further details.

05/01/2025

In this post I wanted to set out the type of work that I can assist with. Future posts will go into more detail of each subject so that a better understanding of the work can be had.

The general types of work I do include are as follows:

🪻Sustainable Farming Incentive, Countryside Stewardship

🚧Compensation, Compulsory Purchase and Rights over Land

💷Property Valuation for Taxation and ⚖️Expert Witness

📱Telecoms site negotiations

☀️⚡️🔋Renewable Energy matters

📑Tenancy and Contract Farming Agreements

📊Farm Business Consultancy

The list is not exhaustive......

05/01/2025

Welcome to Mike Cluley Rural Surveying!

I’m planning to use this page to post general updates and my thoughts on what is going on in the rural world as well as a few posts to go into more detail about what types of work I undertake. This may include some simple descriptions of the areas of work I do as well as some examples of recent instructions completed (suitably redacted of course!).

To kick off - a little background as to how I got here.…… I set up my own Chartered Surveying business in April 2024 having been working for another local firm of surveyors and valuers for the previous 11 years. For me, the time felt right to “go it alone” and to utilize my experience and knowledge built up from both my chartered surveying experience over the 17 years as well as my previous Farm Consultant experience and on-farm experience dairy farming in New Zealand and arable farming in east Gloucestershire. Nine months in and I haven’t regretted the decision…..😊