I love it when a plan(ning permission) comes together!

2024 is going to be a GREAT year! I just know it will be because we started it with success and I have the confidence that the development industry is through the latest “tough patch”. Interests rates are stabilising and the Tories are electioneering and promising lots and lots of tax cuts (the next Government can pick up the bill).

So, indulge me a minute when I share some good news with you and then I am sure you will agree it is going to be a good year.

When I meet my clients and I listen to the problems, I really do relate to the concerns and sometimes, genuine fears about the impact it could have on them and their finances and careers.

I occasionally dabble in a bit of development on the side with a friend and business partner. About two years ago I stumbled across a very interesting little site (yes, we are only little… I’m not a rich man). It is a pub in a very pretty village in West Oxfordshire that burnt down with a car park across the road. The pub had a dreadful reputation and there was an occasion when they had some mystic folk dance naked in the car park on the summer solstice…

Anyway, a long story short, we got the planning consultant and the architect and the environmental consultants and the highways consultant and the flooding consultant etc. etc. and paid a lot of money for their excellent services.

Then we got a really good company to do the consultation (you may have heard of the… The CCP). Naturally the local NIMBYs kicked off BIG TIME. (Did I mention the village consists of about 70 houses and there is another pub in the village?). We managed to win over most of them and the Parish remained neutral.

We commissioned all the professionals to do their professional work that we then submitted to the professional planners at the planning department who did an excellent job. But due to the NIMBYs who objected, the site still had to then be given to a group of amateurs on the Planning Committee to determine it. None of them have any planning qualifications and they were then given the responsibility of decided the fate of ALL my life savings.

Many of you will know that feeling! What will happen? What if they are all a bunch of NIMBYs and they refuse permission? My life savings could be worth a burnt-out pub with no prospects!

Thankfully logic prevailed and we got a unanimous consent! Hooray!

So, at The CCP when I say we look after your planning application with REAL care like it is our own, I really do mean it. We know what you are going through and we know how to get those precious consents.

I love it when a plan comes together – so pick up the phone and let’s get you some consents!

Henry