Planning and development Services
Residential Development Land and Planning Services
Planning Services
Our residential consultancy team has many years experience in the Midlands.
Halls offers residential consultancy advice to various clients including charities, institutions, public authorities and private land clients.
We also extend our services to developers - large and small.
We are probaly now one of the more prominent consultants in this field outside central Birmingham.
Agency - acquisition and disposal of residential and mixed use sites throughout the Midlands. Greenfield and Brownfield and city/ town centre schemes.
- Strategic Land
- Options
- Promotion Agreements
- Landowner Agreements
- Joint Ventures
- Receivership and Insolvency
- Development Appraisals
- Independent Experts
- New Homes Sales
For further information please contact one of our experts:
Shrewsbury Office
Shaun Jones, BSc (Hons) MRICS FAAV
Louise Roberts
Kidderminster Office
Daniel Lovatt BSc (Hons) MRICS
Sarah Hulland BSc (Hons) MRICS FAAV
Worcester Office
Anthony Champion FRICS
Our Planning Department has established a reputation for delivering sound planning advice relating to;
- Planning Applications
- Strategic Promotion of land for development
Planning Applications
Despite increased regulation recently and difficult economic conditions, Planning continues to unlock various opportunities providing significant scope for income and capital gain to property owners and occupiers.
Our Planning Team provides practical and honest advice to secure the best possible outcome.
Experience in rural and urban fields includes;
- Full and Outline Applications including full layout plans
- Certificates of Lawful Use
- Variation of conditions
- Change of use applications
- Prior notification applications for farm buildings
- Hedgerow removal applications
- Building regulation applications
- Planning Appeals
- Negotiation of Section 106 agreements
Examples include;
- New dwellings
- Appraisals for additional dwellings for farm businesses
- Affordable dwellings
- Removal of agricultural occupancy conditions where no longer required
- Barn conversions
- New farm buildings including poultry buildings
- Environmental Impact Assessments
- Wind Turbines and Solar Panels
Strategic Promotion of land for Development
Securing planning consent for development is frequently a long term objective. We advise on site potential and the best route for optimum results with subsequent submission of promotional documents including specialist reports to meet planning policy requirements.
Long term gain can be very significant warranting careful and robust submissions at the appropriate stage of the development plan progess. The Localism Bill, which was given Royal Assent in November 2011, has been introduced by the coalition as a means of handing greater power to local communities, particularly in respect of planning.
Local Parish councils will now have a far greater influence on planning decisions through the production of “neighbourhood plans” wherein they will be able to decide on where development should go within their local community (as long as the proposals comply with National planning policy and the strategic objectives of the local authority).
It is difficult to predict how this will impact local development opportunities; on the one hand it has the potential to deliver much needed development in a local area far more quickly than through the current planning system whilst, on the other, we could see development being obstructed by overly protective neighbourhoods.
We cover Shropshire and adjoining counties. For a free initial discussion contact:
Shrewsbury Office
Shaun Jones, BSc (Hons) MRICS FAAV
Louise Roberts
Kidderminster Office
Daniel Lovatt BSc (Hons) MRICS
Sarah Hulland BSc (Hons) MRICS FAAV
Worcester Office
Paul Bowness MRICS FAAV
Helen Gibbs MSc MRICS FAAV
