If you are a developer, investor or simply an owner of land, the Town & Country planning laws and regulations affect you.  Their impact can be at a strategic level through structure or local plans.  Equally, you may have difficulty in obtaining consent on acceptable terms to enable you to carry out a development. Or you may find yourself on the wrong end of an enforcement action by a local authority requiring you to stop doing something.

At whatever level you operate, access to advice on the application of the relevant rules is of prime importance.  Birketts can advise on all aspects of planning including the following:

• Examinations in public and local plan inquiries
• Planning appeals
• The preparation and submission of planning applications
• Advice in relation to conservation areas and listed buildings
• Dealing with planning and infrastructure agreements
• Compulsory purchase and compensation
• Advice on enforcement actions and lawful use certificates
• Judicial review