Elevate Open Planning Clinic coming to Coleraine

Changes in legislation, policy and attitudes mean that applicants have to work harder then ever to persuade Planning Service to grant them permission.

The time when an application for planning permission could be drawn up in someone’s back bedroom has gone.

Almost all development proposals are now more critically assessed, and decision makers need to be convinced that they should grant planning permission. In recent years new Area Plans have massively expanded green belts and similar policies.

We have seen PPS14 replaced by PPS21. Housing developments and Quarry applications have been delayed for years in some cases.

A number of these changes will be of great benefit to people who had previously been refused permission to build, for example those affected by green belts or Countryside Policy Area’s (CPA’s) will now have a second chance.

The way an application is presented can make all the difference. A mistake in the first submission or in the initial response to a letter from Planning Service could result in a refusal when a better agent might have handled the matter differently and secured approval.

It is essential to secure the services of a good agent. Probably the best measure of whether an agent is capable is the level of success at planning appeals.

Elevate Planning have been running a series of Open Planning Clinics across the country. People thinking at applying for planning permission or having planning problems should attend for some honest, straightforward advice.

Elevate’s success rate is double the average.

Their next Open Planning Clinic will be held in The Lodge Hotel, Coleraine, on Saturday, March 20 from 9.00am to 12.00 noon. For further details call us on 028 9024 2486.