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Your Guide to Planning Appeals

If you have been refused planning permission, you are entitled to lodge an appeal with the Planning Inspectorate.  There are three options available:  Written Representations, Hearing or a Public Inquiry.   The Written Representations procedure is the most common form of appeal and is appropriate for less controversial cases with limited public interest.  The process involves an exchange of written statements...

Government Announces New Roadmap for Renewable Energy Developments

The Government has recently announced a new Roadmap for Renewable Energy Devvelopments, which identifies eight technologies that have the greatest potential to help reduce the Country's reliance on fossil fuels.    These are wind energy, marine energy, biomass electricity, biomass heat, ground source and air source heat pumps, and renewable transport.  Interestingly it makkes no reference to photovoltaic/solar energy.    If you are...

Thinking of extending your home?

Running out of space at home?  Thinking of having an extension?  Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy can guide you through Permitted Development criteria to ensure you are compliant with the relevant legislation, and also submit a Lawful Development Certificate to the Local Authority for formal confirmation of such.  When undertaking extensions as Permitted Development, the onus is on you as the householder to ensure you...

Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy are on Facebook!

Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy has established its own Facebook Page - just search for Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy.  Feel free to share the link with your friends!   Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy provides specialist town and country planning advice to landowners, householders and developer's alike, and specialises in the areas of Lichfield, Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Tamworth, Leek, and the rural areas inbetween.  If...

High Rise Fire Training Facility – a UK First!

Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy Ltd. was appointed last year by West Midlands Fire Service to secure planning consent for a new high rise training facility.  Over recent years the UK has suffered a number of fires in high rise buildings that have caused the deaths of fire fighters and members of the public, and this prompted West Midlands Fire Service to develop...