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Planning Consultants

We’ll help you with all aspects of planning to maximum the value and potential of your properties.


Steve Davies

Steve Davies
Associate Director and Chartered Town Planner

Planning consent can add very substantial value to your property. But it's become a highly complex area. More than ever, it is critical that you get it right first time.

News and Views

Our latest blog posts:

Local Plan Updates 2025: Kent & Sussex Planning Timelines

This year has seen a significant amount of local plan activity across Kent and East Sussex, as local planning authorities continue setting out future planning policy and identifying land they may wish to allocate for development.

Preparing a local plan is a lengthy, multi-stage ...

Planning Successes 2025: Key Wins Across the South-East

Our Planning Consultancy Team has had another busy and successful year, working on a wide range of schemes across the South-East and beyond. From residential and commercial development to farm diversification, renewable energy and tourism projects, 2025 has delivered a strong portfolio of planning ...

So Much More Than a Number: Rural Valuations in a Changing Market

“In an age where AI is coming to the fore, it makes me wonder whether the art of valuation is a dying one?”

For some properties — the typical two-bed mid-terrace in a busy urban area — perhaps technology can get close. But for ...

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What we do

Planning Permission

Planning Permission Applications

We can help you gain planning permission and other related approvals

Planning applications for all developments

Mixed-use schemes

Consents for listed buildings

Planning permission in conservation areas

Certificates of lawfulness

Advertising consents

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Ashford Local Plan

Planning Feasibility and Research

Research and technical consultancy services to support your development projects

Development briefs

Master plans

Planning appraisals

Infrastructure payments (S106)

Advice on Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)

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Specialised Areas

We've decades of experience between us and can provide you with professional advice in a wide range of specialised areas

Development in the Green Belt

Planning permission for mixed use schemes

Flexible farm uses (including Class Q)

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Planning Law

Legal Matters

We'll help you find practical solutions to problems resulting from our complex planning laws

Planning and enforcement notice appeals

Legal interpretation and agreements

Interpreting planning permissions

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Ashford Local Plan

Representations on Local Plans

Make the most of your opportunity to influence the Local Plan

The local development plan process

Appearing at a planning inquiry

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Our Planning Consultants

Elizabeth Welch

Elizabeth Welch

Associate Director and Chartered Town Planner
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Steve Davies

Associate Director and Chartered Town Planner
Isabelle Adaway

Isabelle Adaway

Senior Planning Consultant
Charlotte Bromley

Charlotte Bromley

Rural Surveyor