Planning News

The Government raised planning fees this year for the first time in years. However, the online platform of choice for many professionals in the industry, Planning Portal, has introduced an administration fee increasing costs again. As the Portal is now a private...

The World Cup came and went and football didn’t “come home”; however, with the recent fantastic spell of good weather some important grants of consent did!

As the warm weather and dare we say it summer arrived June was an interesting month in terms of a wide variety of projects successfully concluding and starting. Including an in-depth look at a planning consent granted back in 2016 by Wycombe Council, the established...

The long anticipated introduction of GDPR saw us, like many other companies send out emails to our contacts asking if they would like to remain on our contacts list for events and seminars. A big thanks to Sam Burnand of Laceys Solicitors and Robert Jelley of Business...

The new financial year saw a number of interesting matters cross the desks of HLF Planning, including legal matters working with 3PB Barristers who have local chambers in Bournemouth we were able to analyse and form a sound legal opinion on an enforcement matter for...

The end of the financial year brought about further joy for our clients with appeal and planning successes. In London we found success on an enforcement notice appeal whilst locally we secured consent on appeal for local Building Surveyors Bryan Tomlinson and...