Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy Ltd. has recently secured consent at appeal for the erection of 5 dwellings on a parcel of land near Brownhills. The application had been refused by the Planning Committee and we were approached to lodge an appeal against that decision. A robust case was prepared in response to each of the three reasons...
Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy Ltd. has recently secured planning permission for the conversion of a stone and tile former agricultural building within the Peak District National Park to open market residential use. During initial pre-application discussions the Peak Park indicated that they would be resistant to the proposal on account of visual impact / harm to the character...
Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy Ltd. has recently secured planning permission for the change of use, extension and alteration of a former public house in Telford to a mini-supermarket. The proposal involved a number of planning considerations including loss of the existing community facility, impacts arising from the site not being located within an existing retail centre, impact on...
Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy Ltd. has recently secured planning permission for the re-development of a former kennels site within the Green Belt on the outskirts of Walsall for the erection of three detached bungalows. The site had laid vacant for a number of years, and after liaison with a local ecologist to address a number of sensitive ecological...
Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy Ltd. has recently secured planning permission to re-develop a range of stables on a site within the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, successfully arguing that proposal amounted to an appropriate form of development within the Green Belt, and that the site also constituted a sustainable location for a new dwelling, despite being located a number of kilometres...
Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy Ltd. has recently secured planning permission via appeal for the erection of a single storey front extension to a popular farm shop on the outskirts of Burntwood. The application had been refused on the grounds of design, but the Planning Inspector was persuaded by the arguments we presented that the design of the building...
Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy Ltd. has recently secured prior approval for a site in Stafford Borough for the conversion of two former agricultural buildings into three dwellings via Class Q Permitted Development. The Local Authority had expressed reservations as to whether the proposal was compliant with Class Q, but we were able to demonstrate that the proposal was...
Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy Ltd. has recently secured planning permission via appeal for a dog walking field on land within the Green Belt on the outskirts of Lichfield. The original application had been refused permission on the grounds that it constituted an inappropriate form of development within the Green Belt. Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy Ltd. set out...
As of the 1st January 2014, Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy became a Limited Company. Should you require any planning assistance or advice then please do not hesitate to contact us. Our contact details can be found on the 'Contact Us' page.
Rob Duncan Planning Consultancy has recently secured approval for a 76 metre (249 foot) long solar array on an agricultural field in Staffordshire. The development will deliver up to 50 kilowatts of renewable energy with any surplus transferred into the National Grid.
