Tim Barker
MSc MRICS FAAV ASAg
e:tim.barker@wreyland.com t:07850361598
Tim Barker is a Chartered Rural Surveyor and Director of Wreyland Rural Planning, a specialist consultancy dedicated to securing robust and practical planning outcomes for clients across the rural sector. He is a Professional Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers, and an Advisory member of the Society of Agriculture, combining formal professional standing with broad experience in rural land, development, and valuation.
Educated at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, Tim holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Rural Land and Estate Management and is currently undertaking further advanced postgraduate study in the Conservation and Management of Historic Buildings. His academic formation is matched by practical grounding, having worked in sheep, beef, and dairy enterprises across Dartmoor, South Wales, and New Zealand before entering professional practice. This union of scholarship and lived agricultural experience underpins advice that is both technically rigorous and firmly rooted in the realities of land management. Alongside consultancy work, he has also contributed to professional education, lecturing at both the University of Worcester and the Royal Agricultural University.
Since founding Wreyland Rural Planning, Tim has advised a wide spectrum of rural clients, from family farms and private landowners to charitable and institutional estates. His work encompasses agricultural development, rural workers’ dwellings, diversification, heritage reuse, Certificates of Lawfulness, and the resolution of restrictive occupancy conditions. Across these fields he is guided by a clear purpose: to unlock sustainable economic opportunity in the countryside while respecting landscape, heritage, and community.
Beyond professional practice, Tim serves operationally with the Severn Area Rescue Association, contributing to search and rescue, flood response, and specialist river operations across the Severn catchment. He lives in Cheltenham with his wife, Natalie, and their young daughter, India. Family life, public service, and professional duty together reflect an enduring commitment to stewardship, continuity, and the long-term resilience of rural places.
Measured in judgement, practical in outlook, and grounded in the working countryside, Tim brings to each project a balanced union of professional discipline, agricultural understanding, and thoughtful custodianship.
Jonathan Scott-Smith
FRICS FAAV
e:jonathan.scott-smith@wreyland.com t:07704141626
Jonathan qualified as a Rural Practice Chartered Surveyor in 1990, becoming a Fellow in 2011, and is a Fellow of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers and member of the Compulsory Purchase Association. He started his career in Oxford, assisting in the management of mainly rural properties for private and institutional clients, before beginning to focus on rural infrastructure and spending a couple of years in international farmland investment work. Before joining Wreyland he was a Partner in Knight Frank’s Rural Consultancy division and before that he worked with Tim Barker in another rural consultancy.
Jonathan lives in the Cotswolds, on the Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire border, with his wife and teenage son. He has completed several building projects and will generally tackle anything practical. The re-use of traditional buildings and recycling and re-purposing of architectural features are an interest, as are travel, shooting and cooking. He has recently completed a barn conversion in Transylvania, is trying to learn Hungarian, and occasionally acts as a tutor to the Royal Agricultural University and the local CAAV branch.
Jonathan joined Wreyland in 2025 and will split his time between compulsory purchase & compensation work and rural planning.
Charles Board
BA MA
e:charlesboard@hotmail.co.uk t:07811739727
Charles began by studying traditional furniture design and interiors at what is now Buckinghamshire New University, with dissertations on Post-Modernism and Brutalism. His first major job was 12 years in commercial architecture at Project Design Partnership in Epsom, mainly on large office and industrial schemes.
After reading, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” Charles studied for an MA in Urban Design at the University of Westminster, with a dissertation analysing the population densities of different building types around Marylebone, sparking a continued interest in statistics.
Moving to Cheltenham for family reasons, Charles worked for Fabric Architecture, designing, arranging production of, and going out on site to erect steel and tensile fabric structures. Switching back to urban design, Charles did 11 years as a senior designer for Nicholas de Jong Associates, working at different scales on projects mainly in Ireland including the main throughfares of the city of Limerick.
Married, with two grown up children, Charles has worked with Wreyland since 2020 in 2D and 3D, using mainly Autocad, Sketchup and Photoshop, and is involved on and off with certain environmental and libertarian causes. His heroes are Arthur Wellesley, Jane Jacobs and Thomas Sowell.
