

Planning Direct employs a unique approach to each and every project. Following your free consultation, we will work with you to find the perfect solution to your planning needs, whether this be objecting to planning applications, securing planning approval, or appealing a planning decision. We work across the length and breadth of the UK, taking on projects of all scopes and sizes, so your enquiry is guaranteed to be considered.
Do you need a Planning Consultant?
Planning consultants are experts in their field and used by architects, developers, lawyers and private individuals to secure results. Whilst planning consultants such as Planning Direct provide a cost-effective means of applying for planning permission they are able to ‘achieve the impossible’ (as one of our clients has said) where chances of success seemed low or non- existent.
So what can a Planning Consultant help you with?
Planning Permission
If you want Planning Permission, a planning consultant can provide a cost-effective means of securing such permission or secure planning permission in difficult circumstances. Planning Direct has a high success rate in securing planning permission.
Development Site Appraisal
Often clients want to maximise the return on an investment building or piece of land. It’s best in these circumstances to get an experienced professional from a planning consultancy such as Planning Direct involved early. We can tell you what will work in planning terms and calculate the relevant return for various options through a Development Site Appraisal. Planning Direct offers an inexpensive means of benefiting from such advice that maximises return.
Planning Objection
A Planning Consultant is crucial for preparing, and where appropriate, managing the response to unwanted development. With unique experience in objecting successfully to supermarkets, ports, cement works and other smaller developments, Planning Direct is expert in stopping development you don’t wish to see.
Working Alongside Architects
Architects are experts in designing buildings with form and function in mind. However, they do not usually specialise in planning and often merit-worthy buildings are denied planning permission for lack of expert advice. Planning Direct offers planning consultancy to architects, working alongside them from an early stage in order to get clean planning permission, and to deliver the building the client needs.
Working alongside Lawyers
Most planning consultants restrict their services to what they know: applying for planning permission. Planning Direct has considerable experience working alongside lawyers in providing expert evidence (at appeal or inquiry), dealing with Rights of Way disputes, boundary disputes, preparing appeals and dealing with Government.
Planning Appeals
Often planning consultants are brought in after a client has already lost a planning application. With an enviable record Planning Direct will examine your case and make an appeal on your behalf. An appeal is made to the Secretary of State (the Planning Inspectorate). It costs nothing to appeal but a careful submission pointing out where a council has not followed policy (either local or their own) is required – the work of a planning consultant.
So what do Planning Consultants Cost?
Here at Planning Direct we offer initial advice for free. If you chose to instruct us we will outline our fee structure and agree a price with you. We offer a day rate and price each case individually. We work hard to keep clients’ costs down by assertively challenging unnecessary costs and through innovation find the cheapest route to planning success.
We offer all clients a free initial consultation, so please get in touch – we’d be delighted to hear from you, and happy to help you.
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