Invalid applications are frustrating for applicant and Local Planning Authority alike. Neglectful applicants often submit substandard applications, but equally Local Planning Authorities commonly request superfluous documents.
Before you submit always make sure you have reviewed the national and local application requirements. This is commonly referred to as a Validation Checklist. [...]
Continue Reading →We were approached by a local developer hoping to convert a redundant church into a polyclinic, providing a range of health services all under one roof.
Council
Worthing Borough Council
Issues
The church had been vacant for a couple of years, with a history of failed schemes including [...]
Continue Reading →The proposed development consisted of a detached bungalow on an infill plot in the Podsmead area of Gloucester.
Council
Gloucester City Council
Issues
The application had been previously refused with the decision notice stating that the development was overly cramped due to the narrow nature of the plot. [...]
Continue Reading →Our client wished to build a tennis court on estate land for his own use, but which could also be used by the local village community.
Council
Cotswold District Council
Issues
The land earmarked for the tennis court was within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), [...]
Continue Reading →We have secured planning consent for 15 luxury apartments at a hotel on the Isle of Wight. Our client was faced with difficulty selling his hotel as a going concern, so approached us for help with trying to make his property a more attractive investment.
Plainview Planning managed the whole planning application process – pre-application [...]
Continue Reading →Our client had built an outbuilding 8 metres by 6 metres in a relatively small back garden for use as a gym (with bathroom), playroom and storage space. An Enforcement Notice was issued by the London Borough of Brent requiring its complete demolition. We took the case to an Enforcement Appeal [...]
Continue Reading →The impact and importance of public consultation and political lobbying is often overlooked by developers and householder applicants alike. It can be incredibly frustrating when a planning application is vociferously objected to by the noisy minority – at Plainview Planning we always aim to encourage the silent majority to support your application, and [...]
Continue Reading →Our client approached us to regularise her residential occupation of a Public House despite the fact that the pub had not traded for 7+ years. We recommended a Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use which required us to prove that the pub had been lived in exclusively and continuously for 4+ years.
Council
Over the past two years we have seen a stark rise in outbuilding enforcement cases across England. This has been caused by the misunderstanding of Schedule 2 Part 1 Class E of the General Permitted Development Order. Homeowners think that as long as they remain within the dimensional restrictions then then can build [...]
Continue Reading →The planning element of the Localism Bill seeks to make the planning system clearer, more democratic and more effective. On paper this seems like a good idea, but is it actually making things more complicated?
Regional Strategies scrapped
These strategies set out where new development was needed throughout the country, including [...]
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