About Planning Design Practice

Derbyshire planning application process

We are committed to providing a high quality  and cost effective service to existing and potential clients.  The initial consultation and site visit is normally free and from this point we can advise you on the best way to realise the development potential of a site or realise your vision and ideas.  There are often several different planning options and based on your requirements, we will provide a direct pathway to success.

We have an experienced design team who can help you to develop your ideas and advise on the most appropriate design solutions to gain planning permission.  All our drawings are executed on AutoCad 2008 allowing them to be electonically transmitted to Councils or clients in PDF or DWG formats.  

With our experience, knowledge and good working relations with Local Authorities we can develop your proposals through pre-application discussions with planning officers and statutory bodies (i.e. The Environment Agency, County Highways) and provide the necessary design and access statements which are required for most planning applications. Once the planning application is submitted, we keep in close contact with Council Planning Officers and review any objection letters or concerns raised by statutory bodies.  We can then advise on amendments or provide additional information.  On more complex applications there may be a requirement to submit reports from other specialists groups such as ecologists, hydrologists or highway engineers. 

Most planning applications are determined by Planning Officers and only a small number go before a planning committee.  If an application goes to committee we can provide letters of support and speak at committee.

If you have not applied for planning permission when you should and the Council is taking action (or is about to do so) we can intervene and help;  you can appeal, we may be able to negotiate changes or obtain retrospective consent.  It is almost never too late to act.

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