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If you are unsure about the chances of success in achieving a Planning Permission, or whether you actually need Planning Permission for your development proposal, most local Planning Authorities (as a decision maker) provide a ‘pre-planning’ application advice service.
Rebus can, however, provide you with a full Planning Appraisal of a site’s development potential. A Planning Appraisal will provide you with everything you need to know in relation to the chances of success in achieving a Planning Permission or, indeed, whether a formal planning application submission is actually necessary. Often, a slightly longer-term strategy is required in which to achieve client aspirations and our Planning Appraisals will provide you with a more informed range of options, where options exist.
Rebus can either prepare, submit and manage your planning application (or other type of application under relevant planning legislation) or complement your own submission with a Planning Statement or supporting evidence, where appropriate.
Given the ever-increasing complexities of the planning system, Rebus will guide you through the suite of planning legislation and relevant local and national planning policy provisions, presenting a planning application with the best possible chance of success in achieving a planning permission.
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We shall not waste your money, and our time, in appealing inappropriate schemes that have no chance of success, but local Planning Authorities are not always correct in their assessment of development proposals.
A Planning Appeal process is available to aggrieved applicants; whether you have received a refusal of Permission/Consent or if the Planning Authority has failed to determine your application within the target determination date. Perhaps you have received a Planning Permission the subject of a condition that renders your development undevelopable or unviable!?
At Rebus, we will appraise your development proposal and provide you with an honest opinion with regard to the chances of success in making an Appeal to The Planning Inspectorate. Thereafter, if there is a case to be made, Rebus will either act as Agent on your behalf or provide you with a robust Statement of Case in which to mount your own Appeal (the latter dependent upon circumstances).
With our modern planning system being so complex it is no wonder that, sometimes, developments proceed without the relevant Permission/Consent in place and/or that inaccurate information is imparted to prospective applicants by Local Authorities. Perhaps you carried out a development (including a change of use of land) without realising that you needed Planning Permission and you have now been contacted by the Council’s Planning Enforcement Service?
If you are served with a Planning Enforcement Notice – don’t panic! It is, however, essential that you act quickly. The ability to appeal the service of an Enforcement Notice exists and, dependent upon the circumstances of the case, it is possible to appeal on a number of different grounds.
Rebus can provide you with non-judgemental planning-related advice with regard to your available options if you have been contacted by the Planning Authority’s Enforcement Service or if you have been served with an Enforcement Notice.
We work under a ‘Plan-led’ system. Planning Law (and Policy) therefore requires that decision makers (whether that is local planning authorities or The Planning Inspectorate) should first assess your development proposal against the policies and provisions of a Local Development Plan and, where this is the case, they should make a determination in accordance with the Plan unless ‘material considerations’ indicate that policy should be set aside.
An allocation within a Local Development Plan will often secure an ‘in-principle’ acceptance that a related development will achieve a planning permission (over the Plan period). When local planning authorities ‘call’ for potential development sites, or request that land-owners/developers/applicants promote land/sites for development, Rebus can assist you with a submission to the Council.
If you need to formally establish that your development is ‘Permitted Development’, or if your development is now ‘immune’ from planning enforcement action, then a Certificate of Lawfulness may allow you to progress with an alternative development, or simply give you peace of mind.
Many conveyancers/solicitors will not allow their clients to purchase a property/premises without ensuring that all relevant documentation is in place. A Certificate of Lawfulness may assist a smooth sale of your property, land or premises or simply assist with conveyancing issues.
Perhaps your development proposal is Permitted Development? Should this be the case, you may not need to make an application for Planning Permission. Rebus will assess whether you actually need to apply for Planning Permission or whether a different type of submission could be considered in the event that it is possible to take advantage of ‘Permitted Development Rights’.