Planning Potential's strength lies in the broad range of sectors that we specialise in. Our teams have strong working relationships with Local Planning Authorities across the country and our local knowledge and contacts help us to secure the planning objectives of our clients. In addition we work with specialist consultants to ensure our clients get the best possible service.
We are familiar with promoting large scale business parks and mixed-use schemes which incorporate employment floorspace. We work with agents to prepare Employment Land Assessments.
Complex and involved planning issues are often associated with conservation and heritage projects, especially where they include listed buildings and conservation areas.
Planning Potential has a proven track record of delivering listed building consents and have the expertise to promote development in heritage schemes.
Planning Potential advises clients on incorporating healthcare facilities within mixed-use developments and healthcare developers on delivering stand alone or care campus schemes.
The particular requirements for healthcare providers need to be taken into account at the early stages of scheme design. We liaise closely with design teams to ensure planning standards and operator needs are met.
The benefits to the community of new healthcare facilities generate a positive response to consultation, and it is important that this support is fully taken into account in the planning process.
We work closely with our high street clients to promote their expansion.
Our specialised Leisure sector team deals with a wide variety of
planning and licensing matters for A2, A3, A4 and A5 Use Classes.
Working on a case by case basis as well as managing the portfolios
of a number of our larger clients.
With a client base including prominent house builders, developers and national retailers, Planning Potential has a proven track record of facilitating, co-ordinating and delivering urban development proposals. Drawing on our diverse experience and our network of private sector relationships we are well placed to provide a strong evidence base on which to develop viable plans and strategies, test options and promote commercially viable solutions.
We understand and can refine and help deliver our clients objectives. Our approach, including detailed capacity, impact and feasibility analysis, can help to inform policy, often unlocking the wider potential of problematic sites. We are able to manage a development team through the planning process and assist on every aspect of the development control process.
Environmental Assessment is a complex process
running alongside planning. Planning Potential can undertake
the full co-ordination of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs)
including the instruction and co-ordination of an EIA team. Our
planners have experience of co-ordinating the Assessments,
raising issues of:
We can liaise with Local Planning Authorities at all stages of the process and provide a service for the screening and scoping of Environmental Statements including the presentation of the main documents and non-technical summaries. We are familiar with the detailed legislation in this area, and will undertake appeals to the Secretary of State if we consider a full EIA is not required.
Planning Potential has a proven track record in offering expertise and advice on residential developments. We can assist throughout the planning process on small infill and urban regeneration schemes, through complex change of use and listed building conversions, to major residential led mixed-use schemes in the greenbelt. We can provide strategic planning advice and prepare representations on emerging policy having a good understanding of housing need, deliverability, and Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments.
Acting for volume house builders and mixed-use developers, the team at Planning Potential has experience of UK affordable housing policies and is fully familiar with their impacts on commercial viability. This is an increasingly demanding aspect of the planning issues affecting residential schemes and requires experience and a full understanding of the policy basis to successfully manage its impact. We have this extensive skills background which arises from detailed negotiations with planning and housing authorities, the successful presentation of evidence at appeal and the influencing of policy via representations and examinations in public.
Planning Potential has a proven track record of progressing and advising on a broad range of major private retail and commercial projects throughout the UK. We pride ourselves on our innovative and pragmatic approach to finding solutions bespoke to clients requirements which are also in line with both the latest market trends and policy thinking. Through our knowledge and experience, we can offer detailed planning and strategy advice.
The demand for high quality student accommodation is rising. With Government funding constraints and city centre campus' with little room for student accommodation, universities are now looking to the private sector to help them meet demand.
We are familiar with the concerns raised by residents, particularly in respect of parking pressures. We have also dealt with policies requiring affordable housing for student schemes.
Comprising a team of planners experienced in the complexities of urban development, Planning Potential is ideally placed to deliver town centre development and has a proven track record of facilitating, co-ordinating and delivering urban development proposals.
