A lawful development certificate is an extremely useful planning tool – especially where permitted development rights are concerned, as Daniel Hughes explains.
One of the ways in which a Lawful Development Certificate is a useful tool is by establishing beyond doubt that a project was legal at the time of construction. This can be used as evidence when dealing with local planning authorities as well as potential buyers.
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PWA Planning has helped gain planning consent for three new energy storage schemes across the UK.
We have advised batteries and energy storage specialist Arenko Cleantech on achieving planning consent for two 49.5MW energy storage facilities – one in York and one in Liverpool.
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Paul Walton, director of PWA Planning, looks at the recently announced First Homes scheme and what the wider implications could be if it is introduced.
The government has described its First Homes scheme as ‘genuinely life-changing for people all over the country’ – but many aspects of the initiative are unclear.
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Plans for four large-scale industrial and warehousing units, as well as four new premises aimed at start-ups, have been approved at the Frontier Park commercial site on the Blackburn and Hyndburn border.
PWA Planning successfully advised Monte Blackburn, the property and development company for the Issa family, on the latest ambitious development at the 90-acre business park off the M65.
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Plans to transform a disused Wirral dental surgery into five state-of-the-art apartments have been given the green light after PWA Planning advised on the scheme.
Wirral Borough Council has granted planning permission for the conversion project at Warren Drive, New Brighton, near Wallasey.
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Paul Walton, director of PWA Planning, discusses the role of Brownfield Land Registers and whether brownfield sites can deliver the new homes the country needs.
Brownfield sites have enough space for more than a million new homes, according to research from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE). Its study suggests local planning authorities have identified more than 17,000 brownfield sites, covering over 28,000 hectares of land.
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We’re pleased to announce three new appointments to the PWA team.
Dr Victoria Lawson has joined us as a planner and Matthew Walton has been appointed as assistant planner.
PWA Planning has helped fast-growing pub company Amber Taverns gain planning permission for three newly acquired sites across the country.
Amber Taverns specialises in reviving old buildings and turning them into thriving public houses across the UK.
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PWA Planning has helped Story Homes gain outline planning consent for a development of 125 homes in Barton, North Preston.
The new development will be created on a five-hectare site off Jepps Lane to the east of the A6 Garstang Road.
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PWA Planning has helped gain planning permission for a new drive-through coffee shop and petrol filling station on a prominent site in Derby.
International forecourts operator EG Group will develop the site of a former gas storage facility opposite Derby County Football Club’s Pride Park stadium and Derby Arena.
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