Please contact us to see how we can help you with any of the following services:
Planning
- Development appraisals providing a strategy for your development following a review of local and national planning policy and relevant constraints, such as Green Belt and Conservation Areas
- Planning pre-application submissions to the Local Planning Authority for Council advice on your proposal
- Public Consultation events; organising, hosting and preparing public consultation statements for complex or large projects
- Planning Applications; planning statements, and project management of the preparation and submission of application documents, and the management, negotiation and liaison with the Local Authority post submission
- Objection letters to development proposals adversely affecting you
- Representations on emerging local plans on policy and land allocations
- Certificates of Lawfulness for proposals that are permitted development
- Prior Approvals for agricultural and residential developments
- Applications for the release of planning conditions on your planning permission
- Planning Appeals; Householder, Written Representations, Hearings and Inquiries, including acting as a professional witness
- Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) advice and appeals under Regulation 113, 114 and 117 of the 2010 CIL Regulations (as amended)
Enforcement
- Certificates of Lawfulness for existing developments that are immune from Enforcement Action
- Responding to Planning Contravention Notices and requisitions for information
- Appeals against the serving of an Enforcement Notice
- Representation in Court as a professional witness
Viability
- Planning Viability Statements to reduce the burden of affordable housing on your project
Sequential Tests
- Sequential Tests to justify development in constrained locations such as flood risk zones, replacing community uses or justifying the loss of a commercial use
ET planning specialise in the following development areas:
- Residential; new build, replacement and conversions
- Commercial; independent businesses and mixed use schemes
- Education; expansion of school teaching and sport facilities
- Equestrian; commercial and sporting proposals
- Caravan sites, including Gyspy and Traveller related development
- Constrained sites in the Countryside or Green Belt
- Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) challenges
- Resolving Enforcement disputes
- Viability appraisals
- Sequential tests