We have created a very handy guide to the Planning Application Process! If you are about to dip your toe into the world of Planning by submitting a planning application, you may well feel a little apprehensive and bamboozled about the whole process.… More >>
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Collaborative Planning and Public Participation
Planning Assistant Bethan Frazer-Denham, is in her third year of a Geography and Planning degree at Newcastle University, and is currently considering topics for her final year dissertation.… More >>
Practical Guide – Design & Access Statement
Sometimes on your journey with your planning application, you might need to consider writing a Design and Access statement.… More >>
Planning Success – Malton, North Yorkshire
Planning House are delighted to have secured planning permission to regularise works to a detached outbuilding to enable the use as a garage/store with ancillary living accommodation at a property in Swinton, Malton, North Yorkshire.… More >>
New National Planning Policy Framework (2021)
If you’re writing a planning statement, appeal or determining an application STOP and take a look at the revised version of the National Planning Policy Framework.… More >>
A Practical Guide to Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs)
What is a Tree Preservation Order?
Tree Preservation Orders (or TPOs) are placed upon trees that have been assessed and identified as having ‘amenity value’.… More >>
Is the Pre-Application Process Worth Doing?
At the end of a meeting with any new client regarding development potential of a site I am often faced with the question “so what’s the next step” and my response is usually one along the lines of “you COULD submit a preapplication enquiry” where I go on to list the many benefits of a pre-application submission (which I DO acknowledge) however I usually reluctantly caveat my response with “but it might not be useful in this instance”.… More >>
Planning Success – Change of Use in Hexham
Planning House are very happy to have secured the change of use of a retail shop (Use Class A1) into a nail bar (Sui Generis) in Hexham.… More >>
Planning Success – Change of Use to residential, Co. Durham
Planning House have secure planning permission to change a large detached garage into a bungalow. … More >>
Guide to Development Plot Types
Today we’re going to give you a whistle-stop tour of the main plot types you can (and can’t!)… More >>