Planning Services

• Agriculture Developments
• Barn Conversions
• Development Applications
• Diversification
• Estates
• Farms
• Horticulture
• Liveries
• Small Holdings

• Advertisements / Canopies / Blinds
• Change of Use
• Extensions / Alterations of Premises
• Lawful Development Certificates
• New Premises
• Offices
• Working from Home

• Affordable Housing
• Appeals
• Applications
• Boundaries/Curtilage
• Car Parking
• House Extensions
• Housing Design Layout
• Objections
• Residential Developments
• Social Housing

• Adverts
• Car Boot sales
• Changes of Use
• Markets
• Out of Town Sites
• Shops
• Town Centres

• Caravan Parks/Camping Sites
• Fast Food/Take Away Outlets
• Guest Houses/B&B
• Hotels
• Public Houses
• Restaurants
• Tourism

• Assessing the development potential of land
• Planning strategies
• Promoting sites for allocation within the Local Plan
• Planning appraisals

• Advertisement Consents
• Certificates of Lawful Development/Use
• Changes of Use
• Conditions (discharge, variation and removal of)
• Design and Access Statements
• Listed Building Consents
• Permitted development
• Planning applications
• Planning Statements
• Prior notification applications

• Your clients’ Planning Application or Planning Appeal Prepared, managed and submitted
• Provision of supporting planning statements
• Site planning appraisals
• Full support on planning advice

Why Would You Need Retrospective Planning Permission?

• You may have been issued with an enforcement notice that requires immediate action
• You may not have been aware that formal permission was needed before you went ahead with a previous development.
• You’d like to sell your property but a prospective purchaser needs to see your planning approval.

• The building must have been solely in agricultural use on 20 March 2013.
• The building must be part of an established agricultural unit.
• Maximum floor space – 465 sq. metres. This means the cumulative floor space of the existing building or buildings allowed for conversion within the whole of the agricultural unit. Farmers therefore with a range of barns and options need to consider carefully which ones they put forward as there are definite limits.
• There are some other special rules including where there is a tenancy involved.
• If you have used other permitted development rights recently on the farm, you may not be able to use the new rules to get a barn converted to a dwelling.