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We advise and represent landholders and developers, as well as local authorities, in relation to a variety of planning and planning-related matters:
- Planning applications.
- Enforcement notices and proceedings.
- Certificates of Lawful Use and Development (CLEUDs) and Certificates of Proposed Use and Development (CLOPUDs).
- Permitted Development rights.
- Environmental Impact Assessments.
- Local inquiries and informal hearings: appeals against refusal of permission and enforcement notices.
- Judicial review proceedings and proceedings under s.288 and s.289 Town and Country Planning Act (TCPA) 1990.
Our planning practice, perhaps unusually, has grown from our public law litigation practice, rather than being an extension of our transactional property service. We are, therefore, particularly well placed to advise and represent clients, not only at the initial stages of making an application, but before local inquiries and in the Administrative Court and higher courts.
Examples of our planning work include:
- Advice and representation in linked judicial review proceedings (to the House of Lords), two s.288 TCPA 1990 appeals and s.289 TCPA 1990 appeal before the Administrative Court in relation to a major farm diversification scheme.
- Promoting a planning application for a visitor centre, with educational facilities, for a major equestrian welfare charity.
- Advice and representation in appeals against refusal of retrospective planning permission and against an enforcement notice in relation to the only curling rink in England.
Particular areas of expertise include:
- Promotion of farm diversification projects.
- Waste planning and management.
- Highways.
- Animals - in particular, equestrian and avian land use.
- Gypsies and travellers.
- Costs, including EIA and compliance with the Aarhus Convention.
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