We specialise in pursuing planning permission for a wide range of developments including individual houses, residential, commercial
and retail development. We act for private individuals and corporate clients including ‘blue chip' international companies. Recent projects include everything from replacement dwellings in the countryside to strategic oversight of a proposed new urban extension of 6,000 dwellings.

We can provide a specialist to evaluate the development potential of your site and give advice on an appropriate strategy for securing planning permission and marketing the opportunity at an appropriate stage. We conduct development appraisals for private individuals and
a wide range of companies including numerous national house builders.

If you have received a refusal of planning permission our specialist conducts your planning appeal by way of written representations, an informal hearing or a Public Inquiry. Our service includes instructing barristers under direct access provisions. In other words you will not need the additional services of a solicitor in order to instruct Counsel. We are also able to co ordinate contributions from a wide range of other professionals as relevant to the project. We have strong established links with a wide range of professionals who practise in
the East Kent area, including architects, land surveyors, master planners, landscape architects, environmental consultants, highways and transportation consultants, hydrologists etc.

We also have first class contacts with appropriately skilled and experienced lawyers, including both solicitors and barristers who are competent to operate within the East Kent development scene.

If you have been on the receiving end of enforcement proceedings
by a Local Planning Authority, our planning specialists may assist with negotiations aimed at securing a mutually acceptable remedy or alternatively pursuing an appeal.

Our planning specialist can promote your land for development through the Local Development Framework system. Our planners have up to the minute experience of steering a wide of range development projects through the complexities the new planning process. We act for a wide range of private individuals and companies in pursuing the allocation
of land for housing and other forms of development.

Our qualified and seasoned professionals have developed considerable expertise in regard to working collaboratively with Local Authorities and a wide range of public and private sector agencies in order to secure timely delivery of planning permissions and related infrastructure packages. This includes negotiating Heads of Terms in relation Section 106 agreements and instructing relevant professionals, including solicitors.

What ever your planning issue, whether you think your garden might have potential for an additional dwelling or you have a specific development project in mind, please do not hesitate to contact
Robert Stevenson, Chartered Town Planner, on 01233 812333.