Who we are
WebbPaton is a dynamic and thriving partnership established in 1999 by Mark Webb and George Paton. The WebbPaton team offer professional advice and action to farmers, landowners and occupiers throughout the UK.
We appreciate the complexities and challenges facing agriculture and the countryside. We have the experience and expertise to advise and act on a wide range of the day-to-day and major issues that our clients face.
We focus on developing personal working partnerships with our clients based on a friendly approach and specialist know-how. Our aim is to provide you with action, advice and results that are simultaneously practical and cost-effective. Your success is crucial.
Mark Webb FRICS FAAV grew up on his parents’ dairy and beef farm on the Wiltshire/Gloucestershire border and was educated at Rendcomb College, Cirencester before going to the Royal Agricultural College. He spent 2 years with ADAS before returning to North Wiltshire in 1985. Mark deals with a range of matters including valuations, landlord and tenant issues, milk quotas, farm and land sales, agricultural planning appraisals and mortgage funding for farmers. He also runs WebbPaton XS Ltd, the firm’s diversification collecting waste plastic for recycling from farmers in southern England, and is a director of the company which owns FarmXS nationally. Mark is an AMC agent and valuer, and has sat on the RPA’s Milk Quota Experts Group since its inception in 1995. He is also heavily involved in our professional body, the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers, having served as chairman of the local branch and been elected as national Vice President in 2008.
George Paton MRICS FAAV is the son of a Buckinghamshire arable and dairy farming family. He has worked with Mark since 1992. He specialises in advising Clients on the promotion and disposal of residential development land. Today George acts for farmers, builders, and city institutions in this field. He is very interested in renewable energy and the environment, and is currently advising on sustainable building projects. George has also built up WebbPaton’s single payment transfer department which is one of the UK’s leading traders of entitlements. Alongside this he is a land agent who deals with compulsory purchase and compensation claims, farm tenancies, contract farming arrangements, farm management, the letting of business units, diversification to maximise income, rural property taxation matters and runs the Udder XI, the office cricket team. He sees that in the future farmers will trade Carbon Credits as they do in the USA, and WebbPaton will be at the forefront of this market.