Expert Town and Country Planning Consultancy

 

Navigating the UK planning system can be complex and challenging. As a leading town and country planning consultancy firm, Dobson-Grey guides developers, contractors and property owners through every stage of development. Additionally, whether you are assessing site viability or seeking a change of use, our team provides the strategic advice you need to succeed. Therefore, with decades of combined experience, our Chartered Town Planners understand the technical and political challenges of securing approval. As a result, we focus on rigorous risk mitigation and commercial viability while delivering tailored solutions for projects of all sizes across the UK.

Comprehensive Town and Country Planning Consultancy Services

We offer end-to-end planning support covering all stages of development. As can be seen, our core services include:

  • Pre-Application Advice: We proactively engage with local planning authorities to identify potential issues early and maximise your chances of success.
  • Permitted Development Rights: Not all proposals require a full planning application. Consequently, we carefully advise on whether permitted development rights apply.
  • Planning Applications: Our team prepares and submits high-quality applications. Furthermore, we ensure all documents meet local and national requirements.
  • Specialist Applications & Conditions: We handle technical application types, including Section 73 revisions, Non Material Amendments, Lawful Development Certificates, and discharging complex planning conditions.
  • Listed Building Consent:  We offer expertise in managing historic assets and work alongside specialists to secure heritage approvals smoothly.
  • Planning Appeals & Enforcement: If a council refuses your proposal or issues an enforcement notice, we build strong arguments to represent your interests and challenge decisions efficiently.
  • Strategic Site Promotion: We promote land through local plan revisions. As a result, we guide sites from the initial ‘Call for Sites’ stage to final adoption.
  • Third-Party Representations: In addition, we draft clear objections to planning applications on behalf of neighbours and community groups.

Sectors We Serve

We are highly sought-after educational infrastructure planners. However, our expertise spans many diverse sectors:

  • Residential & Strategic Land
  • Commercial, Industrial & Logistics
  • Retail & Leisure
  • Education & Healthcare
  • Agriculture & Rural Estates
  • Arts, Culture & Heritage

Recent Project Highlights

We have a proven track record of unlocking complex sites across the UK. Below are some of our notable recent achievements.

Educational Infrastructure Approvals

Specifically, as planning consultants under the Department for Education (DfE) Schools Rebuilding Programme (SRP), we have secured major approvals. For example, we managed applications for new schools including sports facilities across the East of England. We worked closely with the various planning departments and Sport England from the pre-app stage to full planning application submission, to obtaining timely planning approval.

Commercial & Heritage Case Studies

  • Waterside, Stratford-upon-Avon:In this instance, we secured a change of use from a vacant care home to Class E commercial space, enabling the owner to attract a new commercial tenant.
  • Shakespeare Marina, Stratford-upon-Avon: In this case, we managed a complex leisure development strategy in a sensitive riverside location and successfully obtained a variation to the original approval through a Section 73, and subsequent Discharge of Conditions and a Public Right of Way Diversion Order.
  • Enforcement appeal Success: In this situation, we led a legal team at appeal to quash an enforcement notice, saving a partially built residential dwelling from demolition.
  • Lawful development certificates:  While undertaking a comprehensive review of a commercial site with a complex planning history and an ongoing enforcement investigation, and the successful regularisation of planning issues via a combination of lawful development certificate and planning application submissions.
  • Commercial premises: We obtained permission for an international business establishing a UK hub and negotiated flexible planning condition language.
  • Grade II Listed Buildings: We guided owners of vulnerable historic buildings through complex approvals, resolving unauthorised alterations and bringing vacant heritage sites back to market.

Why Choose Dobson-Grey?

  • Chartered Town Planners: You will work directly with approachable and highly qualified and experienced RTPI professionals.
  • The Multi-Disciplinary Advantage: We integrate planning expertise with our Chartered Surveyors and CDM Health & Safety teams.
  • Commercial Awareness: We focus on achieving sustainable and economically viable permissions that protect your bottom line.
  • Technical Knowledge: We possess an in-depth understanding of planning policies, procedures, and statutory consultee negotiation.
  • Client-Focused & Results-Oriented: Above all, we deliver clear communication and successful outcomes for every client.ion, focused entirely on delivering successful outcomes for your project.

Contact our Town Planning Team today to discuss your planning needs. We are dedicated to providing expert advice and personalised service whatever your planning query or project requirement.

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Contact us on 01789 298006 to discuss your requirements further and discover how we can assist you. We are dedicated to providing expert advice and personalised service whatever your query or project requirement.

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