Planning Law for Home Owners

If you are seeking to increase the value or maximize and expand the use of your property or land by gaining planning permission careful consideration and navigation of the Planning Law system will be required.

Planning Law is recognised as being an extremely complex area, so complex that a designated Planning Court has recently been established in the High Court. In recognition of the complexity of this area of law Holmes & Hills has a team of Planning Law solicitors that specialise solely in this field. The team is one of the largest specialist Planning Law departments in the South East and East Anglia.

We are experienced in successfully advising property and land owners on:

• Permitted development
• Planning applications
• Strategic planning
• Core strategy/DPD’s
• Enabling development
• Pre-application and land law issues
• Planning Obligations/ Section 106 Agreements
• Certificates of Lawfulness
• Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Regulations
• Planning appeals
• Enforcement
• All Planning related appeals
• Land Drainage - Section 104 Agreements
• Listed Buildings
• Highways Law
• Highways Works Agreements – Section 38 & Section 278 Agreements
• Public Rights of Way
• Common Land and Village Greens
• Trees and Hedgerows
• High Court Proceedings
• Planning Injunctions
• Magistrates Court Proceedings