Planning & Development

Town and country planning is now based upon a 'plan driven' system founded upon Planning Policy Guidance Notes issued regularly by Central Government, County Structure Plans and finally Local Development Plans produced at District Council level.

The Local Plan governs development that is likely to occur in your district during the next ten years. It is therefore important as a landowner (and even as a land occupier) to understand the procedure and to chart and monitor the progress of the Local Plan as it proceeds through the various stages, before it becomes the 'Adopted Local Plan'.

As a firm of regional Chartered Surveyors we monitor the Local Plans with considerable care, and we are well placed to represent your views and to make objections to the Draft Local Plan during its various stages. For any individual who owns land adjacent to a settlement it is important that every opportunity is used to promote whatever land use scheme you may have in mind to ensure that a prospect is not lost. It is not just land for residential development that needs to be considered, but land for employment uses, recreational purposes as well as a myriad of other diversification possibilities.

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