RURAL Solutions, the Skipton-based company headed up by chairman Roger Tempest, 31st generation of the Tempest family of Broughton Hall, is well on the way to realising his vision of luring businesses back to the countryside and is worthy of a close look by judges in the best environmental company category.

Within his own countryside estate at Broughton Hall, he has converted listed outbuildings into high-spec offices and is now developing a network of rural business parks, village business centres and business homes in out-of-town locations throughout the United Kingdom.