Architecture and Planning News and Advice

From April 2026 onwards, the planning and appeals system in England moves toward a much more streamlined, “submit‑once‑and‑submit‑well” model. Most appeals will go through written representations, and Inspectors will rely almost entirely on the documents that formed part of the original planning application. In practice, the application you submit at…

By Jon Millhouse, Director at Planning Design Practice Returning to Ashbourne Airfield after a full decade was a truly surreal moment. It has been ten years since we secured the outline planning permission for hundreds of new homes and a vast new business park, and back then, there was nothing…

PDP share the successful outcome of two planning applications at The Cables, in Matlock. The recently approved consents cover the erection of a detached garage, a first-floor rear extension, and the conversion of the existing garage into a self-contained annexe.

Having already covered how the Local Plan process works and how landowners can put land forward for development, in this final article in our series, we conclude with our top tips on Local Plan promotion and what to do if you do not get the result you hoped for.

In the first of this 3-part series we will discuss the main principles of plan making, the effect on plan making of recent changes to the planning system and look at the first part of the plan making process, the evidence gathering stage.