Green Planning Studio Ltd

Your chances of success in obtaining planning permission in sensitive areas such as green belt and AONB are greatly enhanced if the project is of the highest standard of design both in terms of its appearance and its performance.

If required Green Planning Studio can lead the design and delivery of your project with individual sensitive and sustainable designs to support your successful planning application. Led by Ruth Reed, who has many years of experience in the design of rural properties, our portfolio includes the design of:

• Individual homes
• Eco houses including passive solar and fabric-first designs
• Housing developments
• Agricultural buildings and stables
• Commercial developments

We specialise in providing sensitive designs to achieve planning permission in

• The open countryside
• Green Belt
• Areas of Outstanding National Beauty (AONB)
• Other designated landscapes
• Conservation Areas
• Listed Buildings and their surroundings

Should your scheme go to appeal we provide a highly successful expert witness service on architectural and appearance issues that include:

• Appearance
• Design
• Heritage
• Residential amenity
• Landscape and countryside

Developing in the context of our national heritage can be challenging and quite rightly so as our historic environment is important to us all, but there are ways of improving your chances of success.

Green Planning Solutions can provide sensitive landscape and architectural design and advocacy for your successful planning application where your proposed development or change of use is in, adjoining or near:

• Listed Buildings
• Parks and Gardens
• Scheduled Ancient Monuments
• Conservation Areas
• World Heritage Sites

We provide a proportionate approach to the value of the heritage asset and the impact of the proposal upon it through a range of services that include:

• Preliminary advice
• Sensitive design of buildings and landscape
• Heritage Impact assessments to support planning applications
• Applications for listed building consent
• Applications for Conservation Area consent
• Expert witness for planning appeals

Leading on the implementation of the National Planning Policy Framework.

The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) provides opportunities for authorities, communities and developers alike. However, the NPPF’s light touch leaves interpretation open with little case law upon which to predict outcomes. Through its extraordinary success, particularly at appeal, Green Planning Studio has regularly demonstrated that it can suggest and predict how the new NPPF can be successfully interpreted.

Green Planning Studio can provide planning services for

• Planning appraisals
• Pre-application representations
• Applications for domestic and commercial development
• Applications for release of conditions
• Representations on emerging local plans on policy and land allocation
• 5-year land supply calculations for housing supply
• Analysis of needs assessment
• Appeals against planning refusals and non-determination
• Representation at informal hearings and planning inquiries
• Appeals against enforcement action
• Certificates of Lawful Existing Use or Development (CLUED)
• Responding to planning contravention notices and requisitions for information

Green Planning Studio brings a unique portfolio of enthusiasm, skills and experience in town planning.  This relatively young practice has high-level knowledge of planning legislation and highly successful delivery methods.  Matthew Green’s role in Parliament drafting planning legislation and Ruth Reed’s role in built environment policy presentation as President of the Royal Institute of British Architects have given them insight into the future developments of planning policy and the opportunities it presents for economic growth through development.  Michael Rudd’s strategic and innovative approach to the planning system has ensured success for our clients at appeal and at all levels of the court system.

Green Planning Studio Ltd specialises in areas of planning constraint that include:

• The Countryside
• Green Belt
• Areas of Outstanding National Beauty AONB
• Conservation areas
• Listed Buildings

We can provide expert witnesses for appeal issues that include:

• Need
• Housing land supply
• Flood risk
• Appearance and Design
• Heritage
• Residential amenity
• Landscape and countryside

If you would like help or advice about a site where you are considering obtaining planning permission then please free to contact us for expert advice.

The law associated with planning is highly specialised and Green Planning Studio has the knowledge and experience to support you at all levels of the court system. We can help you by:

• Drafting Section 106 agreements – A council can enter into a Section 106 agreement, otherwise known as a ‘planning obligation’, with a developer where it is necessary to provide contributions to offset negative impacts caused by construction and development.
• Acting as intermediaries if you engage a barrister through a direct access agreement in:
  • Statutory reviews against appeal decisions under Section 288 and Section 289 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
  • Criminal prosecutions relating to non-compliance with enforcement notices or breach of conditions notice
  • Injunction and committal proceedings under Section 187 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
  • Judicial review of a decision in the planning process, for example where a local authority has declined to determine an application under Section 70 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
• Producing expert witness evidence in:
  • Criminal prosecutions relating to non-compliance with enforcement notices or breach of conditions notice under Section 179 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
  • Injunction and committal proceedings under Section 187 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
  • Judicial review of a decision in the planning process, for example where a local authority has declined to determine an application under Section 70 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990