Town and Country Planning has been the cornerstone of my business throughout my professional career. Your problem may be new and personal to you, but almost certainly I will have dealt with many similar issues over the years.

My task is to first put your proposal into context, and in particular the Local Planning Authority’s Development Plan and National Planning Policy, to agree a strategy with you.My input can range from writing supporting application/appeal statements to managing the application or appeal from start to finish. I have frequently given expert evidence at planning public inquiries. Much of my work involves sites within the Green Belt, National Parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Conservation Areas.  

Over the years, I have  developed a strong network of Barristers, Ecologists, Environmentalists, Highway Consultants, Noise & Lighting Consultants, Draughtsmen and Landscape Architects to ensure that every case is fully supported by the appropriate technical information.  

Notable successes include:

• Quashing an Enforcement Notice with a full costs award in East Sussex.
• Gaining Planning Permission for a holiday let conversion in East Sussex;
• Removing an AOC and associated S106 Agreement on a dwelling outside Lewes;
• Winning a High Court Judicial Review to quash a Lawful Development Certificate issued by the South Downs National Park Authority;
• Gaining Planning Permission on appeal, with costs, for a supervisory dwelling on an equestrian establishment in Devon; 
• Obtaining Planning Permission for an expansion of commercial units on a farm in East Sussex;
• Obtaining Planning Permission to change the use of a workshop to residential on an equestrian unit in the Surrey Green Belt;
• Successfully applying for a Lawful Development Certificate to regularise a residential annex in West Sussex;
• Removing an Agricultural Occupancy Condition on a former farmhouse in Suffolk;  
• Acting for private clients to secure the sale of land for residential development in Mid Sussex; 
• Obtaining Planning Permission for a 200 bird racing pigeon loft in the South Downs National Park;
• Securing Planning Permission on appeal to change the use of farm buildings in the Wokingham Green Belt;
• Obtaining Class Q consent to convert a farm building in East Sussex for residential dwellings);
• Winning a s78 Panning Appeal for a supervisory farmhouse on a beef unit in Kent;
• Winning a similar Appeal for a supervisory dwelling on a Stud Farm in West Sussex;
• Removing Agricultural Occupancy Conditions on a former nursery dwelling in West Sussex;
• Obtaining retrospective Listed Building consents for works to a Grade II listed farmhouse in East Sussex;
• Obtaining Planning Consent for an estate yard, stable complex and ancillary dwelling in West Sussex;
• Obtaining Planning Consent for a caravan and camping site in the Surrey Green Belt;
• Obtaining on Appeal planning permission for a stockman’s dwelling in the South Downs National Park; 
• Obtaining retrospective Listed Building consent for works carried out to a farmhouse in East Sussex;
• Relocating a local rugby club to a new pitch in the National Park. 

There are, and will be, others!

Planning Consultant at Batcheller Monkhouse. More information here.