Country Land and Business Association

About the CLA:

The CLA is the membership organisation for owners of land, property and businesses in rural England and Wales.

CLA 2010 Business Directory

Business DirectorySearch for a rural business here:               

The Rural Coalition

"The Rural Challenge", a report outlining detailed proposals to give local people, entrepreneurs, community groups and councils the ability to bring about positive change that will ensure a thriving future for the countryside.

CALM Calculator

The calculator designed by the CLA to help land managers work out the balance of greenhouse gases emitted by farming businesses, and the carbon stored in their trees and soil.

Planning for Change

A CLA policy paper on how to improve the planning system for the benefit of the rural economy.

Proposals for the future CAP:

a joint position from the European Landowners' Organisation and BirdLife International concerning food and environmental security.

The Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE)

The Campaign to retain the environmental benefits of set-aside as an alternative to the regulatory route proposed by the Government.

Coalition Government

Keep up-to-date here with the latest on political appointments and shifts of policy affecting land and rural businesses.

Rural Broadband

Join our national coalition of groups and individuals to make sure that fibre optic goes to every home in the UK.

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CLA Foreign Exchange Services

CLA Foreign Exchange Services

Maximise your single farm payment. Find out more about CLA Foreign Exchange Services here.

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Latest News

CLA helps define cost-effective sea defences CLA helps define cost-effective sea defences
20 August 2010

The CLA has today (20 August) published a report to help find practical answers to tackling coastal management and sea-level rise on England’s East Coast.

"Do or Die" challenge for rural communities
16 August 2010

Home-grown biofuel best, says CLA
11 August 2010

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Events

The CLA Game Fair 2011
22 - 24 July 2011
Blenheim Palace. Oxfordshire.


Click here for The CLA Game Fair 2010 competition and championship results; listen to debates that took place and visit the virtual Game Fair.

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No responsibility for loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from action in reliance on or as a result of the material included in or omitted in this website can be or is accepted by the author(s), the CLA or its officers or trustees or employees or any other persons.

The Advisory Services are made available to members on the basis that members' rights to compensation and the liability (if any) of CLA and its officers and/or its staff advisers, are restricted in the following ways. In the event of any advice given by any CLA staff adviser being given negligently or otherwise being incorrect no liability whatsoever is accepted by the CLA or its officers or by its staff advisers concerned

(a) towards any person who is not the current CLA member to whom the advice was directly given,

(b) to any person in the respect of consequential loss or loss of profits, or

(c) to any person for any sum exceeding £50,000 in respect of any one enquiry (whether made or responded to orally or in writing and whether dealt with at one time or over a period of time).

Any person making use of the Advisory Services accepts such restrictions. Members should refer to appropriate professional advisers in private practice before taking any particular course of action potentially or actually involving any substantial amounts of money.

Please note that whilst the advisers are able to advise on a wide range of subjects relating to land ownership, they cannot act in place of a member's own solicitor, accountant, surveyor and tax specialist by, for example, drafting documents or corresponding on their behalf and may be precluded, by the rules of their own professions, from advising one CLA member against another CLA member in the case of conflict.

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