Meet the Team
Chartered Surveyor & Agricultural Valuer
Sheamus Machin FRICS FAAV
With over 35 years' experience, Sheamus has built a trusted reputation for delivering expert advice to farmers, landowners, and public bodies. After qualifying in Leicestershire, he joined Devon County Council as an Assistant Land Agent, later becoming Principal Land Agent. In 2004, he founded the firm from scratch, steadily growing it into a respected rural consultancy.
Outside of work, the winter is taken up with a bit of shooting (which he tries to convince his wife is ‘networking’), and in the summer he uses the same excuse to watch Somerset play cricket. In between he runs a smallholding with his wife Sarah and their two sons which includes a menagerie of poultry, a few pigs and some fat Hereford cows.
Chartered Surveyor & Agricultural Valuer
Lucy Brooke BSc (Hons) MRICS FAAV
Lucy joined the team in 2018 and has quickly become an integral part of the business. A qualified Rural Surveyor and Valuer, Lucy studied Rural Enterprise and Land Management at Harper Adams University via the apprenticeship pathway, graduating with First-Class Honours. She advises on planning, grants, compensation, and general professional matters. Raised on a dairy farm, Lucy brings practical insight and a genuine passion for the countryside.
Sarah Machin BSc (Hons)
Sarah Studied at Seale Hayne Agricultural College and met Sheamus whilst on her placement year. After graduating, Sarah worked at Exmoor National Park Authority for a couple of years and then moved to Natural England helping farmers secure agri-environmental agreements and more recently helping on the National Nature Reserves in the South West. In 2022 she left to join the office and help Lucy in supporting farmers and landowners in accessing rural grants and she wishes she’d made the move years ago!
Charlotte Broom BSc (Hons)
Charlotte studied Rural Resource Management at the University of Reading. With prior experience in both surveying and estate agency offices, she brings a strong administrative and practical background to the team. Charlotte and her husband live on their family farm near Honiton and have two children. When not at work (or looking after the children!) she enjoys running and riding her horse, Daisy. Now based part-time in the office, Charlotte assists Lucy, Sarah and Sheamus in all aspects of client work.