For Businesses & Individuals

We have helped a wide range of businesses and private individuals successfully navigate their way through the planning system.

Examples of our work include:

Judicial review of a decision to allocate a planning appeal to the informal hearing route rather than a public inquiry;
Judicial review of the grant of planning permission for the erection of a water storage reservoir at a golf club situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty where a neighbour had not been consulted about the application;
Judicial review of the grant of planning permission for polytunnels in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty;
Advising a homeowner on potential judicial review challenge to the refusal to remove an enforcement notice;
Acting for a claimant campaign group in a s288 appeal against the decision of the Secretary of State to grant planning permission for the erection of over 120,000m² Class B8 floorspace;
Advising a business on the application of the advertisement regulations to roadside adverts;
Successfully defending the owners of a property prosecuted following the removal of a tree protected under a Tree Preservation Order;
Advising a planning consultant as to whether a planning permission granted in the 1970s had been implemented such that the owner could now continue with the development;
Representing a landowner in connection with his appeal against the service of a s215 notice;
Representing a business in connection with their appeal against the service of an Advertisement Removal Notice;
Negotiating s106 planning obligations for a wide range of development proposals from one house to large scale development sites.

Business and Corporate clients have included: