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A key issue for business growth but sometimes difficult to get your head around. Our planning experts help you to understand the key elements.

Protecting listed buildings - not just another material consideration

Submitted on Tue, 16/04/2013 - 3:16pm
Trevor Ivory, Partner of Howes Percival LLP

The quashing of an Inspector's decision to grant planning permission for a wind farm development has highlighted the special status given by the law to the need to preserve listed buildings and their settings.

Q: When is a fall back not a fall back? A: Almost Never!

Submitted on Mon, 25/02/2013 - 4:22pm
Trevor Ivory of Howes Percival LLP

Q: When is a fall back not a fall back?

A: Almost never!

Government relaxes law on amending planning obligations in viability push

Submitted on Mon, 25/02/2013 - 4:18pm
Trevor Ivory of Howes Percival LLP

Government relaxes law on amending planning obligations in viability push

Following on from a consultation last year, the Government has published new regulations that will give developers the right to seek to vary a planning obligation more quickly.

Unlocking housing market will boost UK growth – but also requires a cultural shift

Submitted on Mon, 10/09/2012 - 11:51am
Eleanor Hacon, Landscape Architect, Paul Robinson Partnership (uk) LLP

The recently released Montague report on housing thankfully opens up discussion of some of the issues of housing in the UK and may help us start to address issues such as, supply and demand, quality of housing, meeting sustainability through economy of scale, creating flexible living arrangements

Unlocking Growth - does the publication of the National Planning Policy Framework help or hinder?

Submitted on Tue, 10/04/2012 - 11:35am
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Paul Clarke Bidwells

The long awaited National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) has finally been published on 27 March 2012.  It seeks to deliver Government policy on planning and significantly reduces down the plethora of policies and statements previously issued by the Government.  The main thrust

Top Ten Tips On Commercial Property Heads Of Terms

Submitted on Thu, 05/04/2012 - 11:20am
Dan Evans of Cozens-Hardy LLP
Dan Evans of Cozens-Hardy LLP

‘Heads of Terms’ is the document generally drawn up by the Landlord’s agent prior to the letting of a commercial property.   Whilst the terms are not binding until incorporated into a lease, it can save you both time and money to get them right first time around.

CIL - Should I be worried?

Submitted on Tue, 20/03/2012 - 2:31pm
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Paul Clarke from Bidwells

Introduced in April 2010, CIL will operate as a tax on development subject to certain exceptions.  Any development undertaken that is greater than 100sq m in floor area, will be charged.  It is based on a gross internal floor space calculation.  It is likely that more than one single rate of CIL will be applied in any particular area and there will be differential rates for different uses and/or different parts of a Council's area.

Pickles, Cala Homes...and the end of Prematurity?

Submitted on Thu, 08/03/2012 - 11:53am
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Trevor Ivory

The Cala Homes saga refuses to go away for the Secretary of State, who has thrown in the towel at the last minute on the challenge to his decision to refuse Cala Homes planning Permission.

What is prematurity?

Rhi – Renewable Heat Incentive

Submitted on Thu, 08/03/2012 - 11:50am
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Paul Robinson from Paul Robinson Partnership (uk) Llp

The Government opened non-domestic applications for the RHI scheme in November 2011 and look set follow-up with domestic applications later this year, coinciding with the launch of the Green Deal.

So what is the Renewable Heat Incentive?

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