Oswestry-based Roger Parry & Partners have announced that Peter Daborn has qualified as a Chartered Surveyor, joining the professional qualification in land, property, construction and infrastructure.

This means the Minsterley-based employee Peter can now use the designation MRICS after his name, an internationally recognised and respected mark of excellence and integrity.

He joined Roger Parry & Partners in 2016 and has recently been made an Associate of the firm. Peter’s qualification means the firm now has nine RICS members and one graduate working towards gaining the qualification.

Roger Parry said: “I am so proud of Peter and his achievement. He is such an integral part of our team in the Minsterley office. It’s been an absolute pleasure to watch him going from strength to strength during his time with Roger Parry and Partners.”

Born and brought up in Kinlet, south Shropshire, Peter was educated at Ellesmere College and graduated from Harper Adams University with a BSc (Hons) Rural Enterprise and Land Management Degree in 2012. Peter is now the fifth generation member of his family to be practicing as a Chartered Surveyor in Shropshire.

Meanwhile, the company is urging farmers to use the recent introduction of new Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) measures to review their heat strategies as there are economic advantages, as well as wider environmental benefits, to be had.

The long-awaited reforms of the RHI passed their final parliamentary hurdle last week and have been implemented with immediate effect. The initiative, originally launched in 2011, has been instrumental in kick starting the UK’s push towards a target of 11 per cent of its heat requirement coming from renewable sources by 2020.

Richard Corbett said: “The new government policy opens up opportunities for farmers in England and Wales, most notably, tariff guarantees for certain systems will provide certainty to projects with long lead-in times. The measures also increase the viability for anaerobic digestion projects, where tariffs are set to increase.

“However, with any new government policy it brings challenges to farmers including those who diversified as wood fuel drying, waste drying/processing, and domestic swimming pools have been removed as eligible uses of heat and there’s new Biogas/biomethane feedstock restrictions.”