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Ian Thornton-Kemsley works from his home near Aberdeen as an independent consultant specialising in compulsory purchase, wayleaves and telecommunications throughout the UK. He is a consultant to Strutt & Parker.
After working his way round the world after school Ian took an HND in Agriculture at the North of Scotland College of Agriculture in 1984 and then went onto to do the respected post graduate Farm Business Organisation & Management course at Aberdeen. He still runs the 1,200 ac family farming business He has however diversified from farming; qualifying in 1989 as a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) following a correspondence course.
Ian is heavily involved in advising on valuation matters affecting telecoms leases throughout the UK and on compulsory purchase issues. He wrote the specialist chapter on the valuation of radio mast sites and telecommunication cables in the textbook Valuations: Special Properties and Purposes published by Estates Gazette Ltd (IBSN 0-7282-0418-5). He was heavily involved in the guide to telecoms masts published by the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV) in 2010.
He has given expert evidence before the Court of Session (Commercial Division), various County Courts in England and Sheriff Courts in Scotland as well as the Lands Tribunal. He is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
In 2012 he was elected as a Fellow of the CAAV under its rarely used rule 1.1.2 as a “practicing Agricultural Valuer of outstanding ability whose election, in the opinion of Council and the Branch in whose area he practices, is desirable in the interests of the Association”. He currently sits on the CAAV property committee and on the SAAVA committee. He is a committee member of the Scottish Compulsory Purchase Association.
Ian has been actively involved as a stakeholder in discussions on the reform of the Electronic Communications Code with the Law Commission and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). He has also been consulted by the Law Commission on reform of compulsory purchase in Scotland.