Introduction
Consultations with Client: These may cover the business overview; the layout of the site and the assessment of problems and potential; and town planning constraints and opportunities.
Application Preparation and Submission: Our experience and skill in efficiently assembling the planning documentation required for an application makes easy what can be an onerous and time-consuming task.
Application Monitoring and Negotiation: Our professional staff are skilled in monitoring your application and negotiating with your local planning authority, meeting their additional requirements by providing information or refining the planning application with constructive solutions which maintain your own requirements. It is of course in everyone's interest that a good development solution is arrived at.
The Approved Application: It is equally important we check the conditions attached to your approval to ensure that these are satisfactory from all points of view. If required, we can submit an application for removal or variation of a condition following grant of planning permission.
Applications for Certificates of Development or Use and Retrospective Applications: In cases where companies or individuals have been unaware of the need for planning approval and have carried out development without the necessary approvals we can submit a retrospective application, help gain a Certificate of Lawful Established Use, and negotiate with authorities or submit an appeal where an Enforcement Notice has been issued.
Preparing and Lodging Planning Appeals: In cases where agreement cannot be reached between an applicant or developer and the local planning authority by virtue of insurmountable differences, say in interpretation of planning policy or perhaps the views of the elected councillors being in conflict with those of the planning officers, then an appeal may be necessary. We are expert in putting together and submitting appeal documentation and in assembling the correct team to put your case at appeal. In cases where it may be required, we have considerable experience in briefing sub-consultants.
Obtaining planning approval for new developments or new uses is very important.
- It allows your business to operate and grow;
- It maximises value when selling your business.
It is impossible to say whether a development will or will not gain planning approval. We are candid with enquiries at the earliest stage as to the considerations which a local planning authority will take into account and hence the range of possibilities which are open to an applicant or developer.
