PLANNING CONSULTANCY SERVICES

ENABLING PROJECTS and PETER D KYTE ASSOCIATES together have a 20 year TRACK RECORD that encompasses a very wide range of DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, covering new build, conversions, extensions and changes of use situations across all property sectors.

To deal with this broad range of work, we have a number of core planning skills, as set out below.

Please also see COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION SUPPORT AT PLANNING STAGE and SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES. These should be read in conjunction with our PLANNING CONSULTANCY SERVICES.

Submissions of planning applications and Certificate of Lawfulness applications over a 20 year period have given us in-depth knowledge of the UK planning system. Indeed, we are often brought into a project and act as agent for a planning application, rather than the architect doing this. In our experience, we as town planners often carry more 'punch' in the planning application and have thus been very successful in the submissions that we have made over the years.

Core skills include securing schemes by proactive and assertive negotiation, consultant instructions and coordination, negotiation of conditions on planning permission, agreeing section 106 obligations, management of projects within defined timescales and overseeing the build phase.

PDK ASSOCIATES advises developer clients, involving optimising the planning-value balance of a scheme, supporting architects in the design process and advising on development strategies. Advice is also given on the planning aspects of investment purchase situations and when difficulties arise in the planning process.

Much of our work entails not only individual project management but the strategic management of a pipeline of schemes at feasibility and planning application stages. Balancing the opportunities and constraints of a large planning pipeline is one of our strengths. Our aim in development pipeline management is to ensure that a series of planning permissions are achieved on an ongoing basis, with consistency and across a defined timeframe. Ongoing monitoring and review of the planning success rate is an important element of this work.

Planning appeals and enforcement appeals are progressed on a wide variety of projects, by written representations, informal hearing and public inquiry. Peter Kyte has also done advocacy work, which involved cross-examining witnesses at enforcement inquiries. Please see TRACK RECORD for appeal case examples.

Planning negotiations often involve negotiating benefits under section 106 agreements. PDK ASSOCIATES has negotiated these with Councils and also unilateral section 106 undertakings have been formulated. Educational contributions on a scheme in Barnet and tree planting and traffic improvements on a scheme in Hounslow are examples of this work. The practice has also been involved in many schemes with section 106 agreements on social housing.

Many enforcement appeals have been successfully progressed and Certificates of Lawful Developments obtained for a variety of uses and developments. Two of these involved getting cases published in the Journal of Planning Law.

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