Our Planning Services and Expertise
Discover more about our extensive range of professional services. We constantly update this page, but if you still can’t find what you’re looking for, please feel free to get in touch with us – we will be more than happy to help.
Planning Applications
o Project Leadership and Management: We can provide leadership on the preparation, submission and negotiation of planning applications. As some leading King’s Counsel advise, the preparation of any appeal starts with how the original application was compiled. Whilst the objective will always be to gain permission without resorting to the appeal system, we consider it is important to follow this advice.
o Project co-ordination: The planner can have a key role in ensuring that the whole project team understand the relevant planning objectives and constraints that underpin any development strategy. This also requires an understanding of the requirements of the promoter. We are experienced at leading and coordinating projects, as well as providing the necessary supporting planning evidence.
Planning Appeals
o Teamwork: Appeals are often complex and require teamwork, and we are well versed in leading, coordinating and participating in professional teams.
o Leadership: We can organise and lead appellants and their team of consultants though the appeal process. We are experienced in instructing and briefing planning counsel and can assist appellants on the selection of counsel as well as organise the case and other consultants.
o Negotiation: We will continue to negotiate with the other parties to reduce areas of disagreement where possible to save inquiry time.
o Preparation of Proofs evidence / Appeal Statements: We produce specialist planning evidence as part of the wider appeal team. We also produce the full planning statements for appeals by Written Representation. o Preparation of Appeal Statements: We produce the full planning statements for appeals by Written Representation.
o Specialist reports: We also have experience of working alongside other planning consultants when required to provide specialist inputs.
o Expert Witness: We have extensive experience appearing as expert witnesses at Informal Hearings and Public Local Inquiries (planning, enforcement, footpath, Highways, CPO) including instructing/briefing and working closely with counsel to provide professional evidence
Enforcement
o We are experienced in undertaking enforcement appeals in terms of advising on the different grounds of appeal as well as the type of procedure to be followed and the nature of evidence that maybe considered by an enforcement appeal inspector.
o We understand that Enforcement Appeals require a particular attention to detail, time lines, nature of evidence and case law and the obligations on us as expert witnesses
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