Eleanor Griggs

NFU Adviser (Land Management)

Eleanor Griggs joined the NFU in 2008 as a Legal and Technical Adviser offering NFU members advice on various aspects of land related legal queries. In 2016 she became the NFU Land Management Adviser dealing with tenancy matters, business rates and telecommunications issues.

Eleanor was part of the Farm Tenancy Forum Expert Working Group tasked to draft the new Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Code of Practice and has been working with DEFRA on access to ELMS and land resumption.

Eleanor has worked on the government consultation on taxation of environmental markets and more recently the call for evidence on addressing poor behaviour in the tenanted sector and the need for a Tenant Farming Commissioner. As well she deals with day to day tenant farmer issues.

Eleanor has a degree in politics and a Graduate Diploma in Law as well as having taken the Legal Practice Course.