Planning and Regeneration Consultancy Services
As a professionally qualified town planner with over thirty years' experience I can help you get the positive outcome you need for your project. I specialise in finding creative solutions to challenging problems
Understanding the planning and development process and especially understanding how local government works, can often be a daunting task - you may not know who you need to approach, what information you need or the best strategy to get the outcome you want.
I can help you with the answers. I have worked in local government for over thirty years, managing the planning process - dealing with planning applications as well as local plans - and delivering regeneration projects and with this experience I can help you navigate a route to the successful delivery of your project.
I've managed multi-disciplinary teams including planning, building control, economic development, property and housing with the focus on end to end delivery of projects.
Since setting up my own consultancy in 2022 I have been working on a diverse range of planning work with private clients, local authorities and parish councils. I have developed a network of fellow professionals who can provide the wider support services required to ensure successful planning
outcomes - ecology and Biodiversity Net Gain, landscape design and visual appraisals, topographic surveys, structural reports, heritage reports and conservation design as well as general plan and drawing preparation.
With this background I can offer support in the following areas:
- putting together and making planning applications (including pre application enquiries), including advocacy at planning meetings
- undertaking development appraisals and advising on the potential to gain planning approval
- responding to the threat of enforcement action
- promoting land for development through the local plans process
- lodging objections to undesirable development proposals either through local plans or against planning applications
- overseeing the delivery of complex regeneration projects including engaging with the process for considering Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP)
- land and property acquisition and site assembly
- managing and coordinating multi-disciplinary professional teams to deliver projects
- preparing and submitting funding bids and business cases using the Green Book model
- policy and strategy writing
- analysing complex information and preparing briefing papers.
Examples of Projects Undertaken
- preparing & submitting applications and gaining planning permission for a variety of projects including new residential development, agricultural buildings, Listed Building Consent, sports facilities and domestic extensions
- advising on pending enforcement matters
- preparing and submitting appeals
- advising on Class Q conversions from agricultural to residential
- supporting local authorities through the Development Consent Order process for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects
- preparing appraisals for redevelopment of land for residential purposes
- providing advice in support of residential Permission in Principle application
- advising on commercial redevelopment potential
- advising on redundant farm building redevelopment potential
- supporting parish councils in their response to development proposals
- advising parish councils on the implications of new local plan consultation
- providing support to local authority on revising local plan timetable
- interim local authority support for restructuring and improving service delivery
- advising local authority in responding to Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP)
How Can I Help?
With over 30 years of local government experience at Director level and successfully establishing my consultancy business since 2022, I have the experience to help you deliver projects across a variety of multi disciplinary professions including planning, economic development, regeneration, property, facilities management and housing. No challenge is too difficult, it's just a matter of finding the right way to achieve the solution you are looking for.
