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7th Nov 2025
Meet the Team – Duncan Howie
Duncan Howie, co-founder and Director of Howie, Kent and Co, brings a wealth of experience and passion for rural commercial agency and renewable energy projects. A graduate of the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, Duncan began his career with Strutt & Parker in their Chelmsford office. While he enjoyed his time there, he soon realised […]
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4th Nov 2025
Professional Development at CAAV Young Valuers Conference
Howie Kent and Co’s graduate surveyors and current university placement student — Dan, Joe and Emily, recently attended the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV) 18th Annual Young Valuers Conference. The event brought together emerging young professionals from across the rural surveying sector to develop their knowledge, network with peers, and gain insight into key […]
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7th Oct 2025
Are you a landowner with a site that would be perfect for poultry houses?
We have retained clients looking to acquire land to build new broiler sheds. Locations need to have: Good road access. Either A or B road and ideally not bottle necking through a local village Site must be 15 to 20 acres of flat developable land 11kv, three phase must be on the site or very […]
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7th Oct 2025
Welcome to the team Dan!
We are delighted to welcome Dan Casey Ford to our team, as our latest Graduate Surveyor. Dan joins us fresh from the Royal Agricultural University, bringing with him a wealth of farming and land knowledge from his time contract farming with a Northumberland based farming company, working with farming friends on a hill farm in […]
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29th Jul 2025
Limited Viable Grid Connections Challenge Renewable Energy Sector
Grid Reform is continuing to challenge the renewable energy sector with new viable grid connections becoming increasingly scarce. The changes have created some opportunities though with smaller projects under 5MW now being exempt from requiring a Transmission Impact Assessment (TIA). This has simplified the grid application process for sites under 5MW which should allow projects […]
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29th Jul 2025
New Team Members at Howie Kent and Co
We would like introduce two new team members to Howie, Kent & Co. Joe Langley joins us as our new Graduate Surveyor, following his Master’s degree in Rural Estate and Land Management at Harper Adams University. Emily Cobb is our 2025/2026 placement student, also studying at Harper Adams. They are getting stuck in to their […]
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21st Jul 2025
Infrastructure Impacts on Hyperscale Data Centre and Large Developments
“We need a cable from point A to point B and we are not sure who owns the land in between or how much it will cost, or if we can even get an agreement with them.” This is a question that HK&Co’s team of agents that handle infrastructure projects are increasingly being asked. So […]
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15th Jul 2025
New Sites Needed to Meet Poultry Production Demands
In the UK, there’s a significant change happening with chicken stocking density on broiler sites. The industry is moving from a standard of 38kg/m2 to a lower 30kg/m2. That means to produce the same amount of chicken, this country needs more chicken sheds! Using our Geographic Information System (GIS) we’ve been able to identify the […]
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14th Jul 2025
Farewell to Placement Student Harry
On behalf of all of us at Howie Kent and Co we’d like to say a big thank you to Harry Pennington for all the help support and laughter over the last year on his placement year. We wish Harry all the best with his last year of study at Harper Adams University. Harry truly […]
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24th Jun 2025
Increased Appetite in Power Purchase Agreements
As the availability for viable grid connections become increasingly scarce, opportunities around private wire projects, known as Power Purchase Agreements (PPA’s) are becoming increasingly more interesting for landowners, high energy users and developers. Projects can range from 500kW (circa 1.5 acres) to 20MW (circa 60 acres) and can be solar and battery or just solar. […]
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