Planning and Development
Our qualified team have worked inside local government so are well placed to advise clients of realistic development proposals. We have also had good success in gaining planning in unusual circumstances, through appeal, and with listed and historic buildings, some several hundred years old.
Because we can combine this with our expertise in valuation, construction, cost and feasibility, we are able to give our clients knowledgeable advice about how realistic their ideas are.
An example includes us advising an owner to not precede with a backyard dwelling house development. This is due to the cost of the construction exceeding the diminution in value of the current house and extending that house would be profitable instead.
An interesting appeal case was a new dwelling house formed on the side of a 1930s semi, using a 30 year garage extension. We subsequently gave development, technical and party wall advice to the developers to maximise the existing buildings let ability.