Planning & the Environment

Experience

Our team has wide experience and a sound track record in all types of planning and environmental matters, both large and small.  For example, we can help with planning proposals, conservation issues, concerns about un-neighbourly development and noise nuisance.

Very often solutions can be found by negotiation and persuasion but where necessary we can provide advocacy at public inquiries and in the courts.

In some cases we work with colleagues in other teams, for example construction and property teams, to provide a comprehensive service to all concerned with planning and environmental matters.

Main Services

• Appeals
• Certificates of lawfulness
• Conservation areas
• Highways issues
• Judicial review 
• Listed buildings
• Local plan, structure plan and unitary development plan representations
• Planning contravention, breach of condition, enforcement and stop notices
• Planning obligations
• Planning permission
• Prosecutions
• Tree preservation orders
• Nuisance (noise, smell, dust, etc) 
• Statutory nuisance and abatement notices