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PLANNING CONSULTANCY SERVICES
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ENABLING PROJECTS (with our original practice, PETER D KYTE ASSOCIATES) has a 25 year TRACK RECORD that encompasses a wide range of DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, including new build, conversions, extensions and changes of use across all property sectors. To deal with this broad range of work, we have a number of core planning skills, as set out below.
Please also see COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION SUPPORT AT PLANNING STAGE and SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES. These should be read in conjunction with our PLANNING CONSULTANCY SERVICES. You can CONTACT US at any time to discuss these services. Please also note that we are a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (go to the RTPI) .
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DEVELOPMENT FEASIBILITY STUDIES |
Initial scheme positioning, formulation of development strategies, site and feasibility analyses, scheme planning assessments, site assessments, legal checks and work on initial scheme designs are all part of our core skills. Scheme positioning (as we call it) includes writing up design briefs for the architect and undertaking pre-application negotiations with the Local Planning Authority.
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SCHEME FORMULATION & DESIGN INPUT |
We are not passive town planners who take on a scheme as designed by the architect. We see ourselves as playing an integrated design role and therefore will always heavily input into the scheme formulation stage. Indeed, we can point to numerous schemes where our design ideas have helped improve a project and get planning permission.
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ADDRESSING PROBLEM SCHEMES |
One of our main roles is to get problem schemes back on track. It is perhaps surprising just how many projects fall into serious problems, with the Council planners either issuing an outright refusal or threatening to do so. In these situations it is our role to positively advise and change the scheme, and then to re-negotiate and re-submit the project. We have been very successful in doing this. Please see our TRACK RECORD for examples of our work.
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PLANNING, DESIGN & ACCESS STATEMENTS |
We have been preparing DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENTS for many years, our work including planning policy assessments to support and justify schemes. Our role in preparing each Statement is to provide a client side interpretation of planning policy, thus ensuring that permission is obtained.
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PLANNING REFUSALS: APPEAL? |
Planning refusals may be forced to go to appeal if the scheme cant be improved and re-submiited. We undertake planning appeals on a wide variety of projects, by written representation, informal hearing and public inquiry. Peter Kyte has also done advocacy work, which involved cross-examining witnesses at enforcement inquiries. Please see TRACK RECORD for appeal case examples.
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PRESENTATIONS & SUBMISSIONS |
Submissions of planning applications and Certificate of Lawfulness applications over a 20 year period have given us in-depth knowledge of the UK planning system. Indeed, we are often brought into a project and act as agent for a planning application, rather than the architect doing this. In our experience, we as town planners often carry more 'punch' in the planning application and have thus been very successful in the submissions that we have made over the years.
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ADVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES |
PDK ASSOCIATES advises developer clients, involving optimising the planning-value balance of a scheme, supporting architects in the design process and advising on development strategies. Advice is also given on the planning aspects of investment purchase situations and when difficulties arise in the planning process.
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DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE MANAGEMENT |
Much of our work entails not only individual project management but the strategic management of a pipeline of schemes at feasibility and planning application stages. Balancing the opportunities and constraints of a large planning pipeline is one of our strengths. Our aim in development pipeline management is to ensure that a series of planning permissions are achieved on an ongoing basis, with consistency and across a defined timeframe. Ongoing monitoring and review of the planning success rate is an important element of this work.
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SECTION 106 OBLIGATION NEGOTIATIONS |
Planning negotiations often involve negotiating benefits under section 106 agreements. PDK ASSOCIATES has negotiated these with Councils and also unilateral section 106 undertakings have been formulated. Educational contributions on a scheme in Barnet and tree planting and traffic improvements on a scheme in Hounslow are examples of this work. The practice has also been involved in many schemes with section 106 agreements on social housing.
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ENFORCEMENT WORK & CERTIFICATE OF LAWFUL DEVELOPMENTS |
Many enforcement appeals have been successfully progressed and Certificates of Lawful Developments obtained for a variety of uses and developments. Two of these involved getting cases published in the Journal of Planning Law.
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