Town and Country Planning
&
Design Services
We make your journey through the planning system a simple experience for you.
About
Our core value is to integrate the design process seamlessly with town planning. We prepare all types of applications for submission to local planning authorities. Our design skills and expertise in planning together with our project management and community engagement experience help identify realistic development opportunities for delivery. We are therefore in a strong position to negotiate with local planning authorities on development proposals.
Why choose us
- We deliver Town and Country Planning solutions, integrated with design, in a timely manner.
- We proactively seek opportunities to address challenges in the planning system that benefit our clients and minimise unnecessary delays.
- As a small practice, we are adaptable in providing a flexible service bespoke to our clients' needs and situations.
- We take a holistic approach to resolve planning and design problems which puts us in a strong position to negotiate with planning authorities for favourable outcomes.
- We provide honest impartial advice on planning cases at a variety of scales and levels of difficulty. In cases where we feel it would not be beneficial to pursue, we will inform you of the available options.
- We collaborate with other specialist consultants when necessary and direct clients to them when required.
Professional Standards
- Our working practices abide by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and Architects Registration Board (ARB) codes of professional conduct. You can be confident that the work we do for you is to professional standards.
- We are covered by professional indemnity insurance.
- The health and safety of our clients are important to us and we comply with COVID-19 government guidelines.
- We take the security of information we hold on our clients seriously and abide by the General Data Protection Regulation 18 (GDPR).
- You have the right to ask us on the data we hold on you and request its removal by emailing info@plan-tecture.co.uk
Service
- General planning and associated design advice.
- Permitted Development advice for all types of uses, developments and work.
- Submission of various types of applications to local planning authorities including planning applications and prior notifications.
- Feasibility studies and development appraisals.
- Formulation of design briefs.
- Urban design and layout proposals for pre-application enquiries/submission of planning applications.
- Planning, Heritage, Design and Access statements.
- Appeals.
- Support in resolving planning enforcement issues.
- Local Plan site promotion.
- Development briefs/frameworks, masterplanning.
- Neighbourhood planning support, representations on Local Plan reviews and planning application consultations.
- Preparation of drawings to support applications submitted to local planning authorities.
Depending on the scope of work and the requirements of the client, our fees will be agreed either as a fixed fee or hourly rate prior to starting work on the project. We also provide an initial free no obligation consultation.
To arrange your free consultation, please visit our Contact page of this website.
Contact
- PLAN-tecture
- 07585 754970 -
- info@plan-tecture.co.uk
- Mon-Fri - 8:30-18:00
We are continuing to ensure we remain open for business to deliver our services effectively to all our clients following Government Covid-19 Guidelines. We abide by the General Data Protection Regulation and only use your personal information supplied to deliver our service to you. To arrange a free no obligation consultation please phone/ email /complete the contact form with details of your issues or project .
Property developers/landowners
We work with our clients to help review, maximise and balance the planning opportunities in space requirements for buildings and land use to achieve our clients’ objectives and vision. We aim to find integrated design and planning solutions for our clients.
We tailor our advice and approach on a case by case basis because there are different strategies and ways to gain support and permission from the local planning authority. We advise and submit on behalf of our clients the appropriate types of application relevant to their case. These include:
Development and land use that require formal planning permission.
We prepare planning applications to support proposals developed with our clients to obtain formal planning permission
Permitted development rights of all types of buildings and land use.
We advise on permitted development rights and the various associated legal procedures specific to each case. Permitted development rights exempt certain building works and changes of use from planning permission. However, some permitted development rights require legal onus on the developer to obtain prior agreement from the local planning authority. In such a case, we will work with our clients to assess the planning criteria and conditions to help develop a proposal for submission to the local planning authority for a positive outcome.
Certificate of lawful development/use.
In cases where permitted development rights need to be confirmed or where planning breaches are required to be regularised, we work with clients to prepare and submit on their behalf an application for lawful development/use.
Site allocation designations for the local plan.
On behalf of our clients, we can promote sites for consideration by the local authority in their Local Plan review to increase the opportunity for sites to be allocated for development. Once the proposed site has been designated for development in the adopted Local Plan it is important that individual planning applications address its requirements.
Businesses
- PLAN-tecture help businesses obtain appropriate permissions from local planning authorities to operate and/or alter premises to meet business requirements.
- We give planning advice on all types of business operation and associated development on a case-by-case basis.
- We can prepare feasibility studies on planning opportunities and options comparing premises/sites to address business operational needs.
- We help business owners to resolve planning enforcement issues.
- Reference to our pages "developers/landowners" and "communities" may also be of interest to businesses.
Communities
Neighbourhood Planning
PLAN-tecture have third sector experience working with communities on neighbourhood planning.
We tailor our professional planning and design advice and services appropriate to the profile, objectives and requirements of our clients and the communities they serve. We can provide planning and design support at any stages of the neighbourhood planning process.
Representations on behalf of parish councils/community groups/members of the public
The English planning system is "plan-led" and policies in an adopted, up to date Local Plan and Neighbourhood Development Plans are important elements in how decisions are made on individual planning applications. Once a site is allocated for development as published in the up to date adopted Local Plan there is certainty for developers that the site can be developed in accordance with this document.
However, there are window opportunities for members of the community to comment on the draft/review of the Local Plan and on individual planning applications that could influence the decision-making process. PLAN-tecture work with members of the community, whether as individuals or groups, to prepare and submit representations on their behalf to the local planning authority during the aforementioned public consultation periods. We make representations communicated and justified at a professional planning level.