We can advise if you need to make a planning application or to appeal to the Planning Inspectorate against a local planning authority's refusal to grant planning permission.

We can provide expert advise on whether the Council's planning officers and planning committee has followed the local planning authority's own planning policies or national policy and guidance such as the National Planning Policy Framework ("NPPF") and the National Planning Practice Guidance ("NPPG"). Perhaps political pressure has persuaded the planning committee to refuse planning permission against officer's advice.

As well as the substantive case, we can advise on costs applications. Planning appeal costs are awarded where the unreasonable conduct of a party has put another party to unnecessary work resulting in wasted costs.