Planning
Advice and applications
We provide clear, practical advice to help you navigate the UK planning system, with your project, responsibilities, and priorities in mind. Whether you’re a homeowner, housing association or local authority, or a contractor responsible for obtaining statutory consents like planning permission, we can help you with a range of expertise in planning.
Whatever your project is – extending a property under permitted development, replacing windows on a property that requires planning permission, submitting a householder application for larger extensions, or looking at a larger development or conversion, we guide you through the process.
We tailor our planning strategy to your specific project needs, from pre-application advice to submitting full planning applications.
Our planning expertise covers a range of project types including:
- Extensions (one/two/more storeys)
- Loft conversions and dormer extensions
- Building conversions, including change of use into residential units
- Listed Building Consent, and conservation area planning
- Simpler window/door replacement applications including:
- Flats that need permission to change windows or doors
- Houses, where you plan on changing the window material and your local authority often restricts this
- Houses or flats in conservation areas
- Listed buildings either locally or statutory (e.g. Grade II)
- Capital works planning obligations
- We also collaborate with experienced and trusted architects to deliver design services on both small and large development schemes
In line with our values, our planning service provides an all-encompassing, quality service without any surprises. We bring our knowledge and expertise of technical design phases to the earlier planning submission stage – ensuring no changes to the proposals that might require planning to be revisited later.
We have also worked with a wide range of planning departments, and know their requirements. We can bring that insight to your project if we have worked with your Local Planning Authority before!
It can be confusing to determine whether your project needs planning permission or not – we can demystify this for you, identify any project parameters that would fall under permitted development (which does not apply if your property is a flat), and guide you through the planning process.
Our team have many years of experience submitting planning applications, including for heritage assets – both inside and outside of conservation areas – and locally and statutory listed buildings.
If you need any initial advice, or want to discuss your project with us, get in touch today at planning@arjdesign.co.uk
Plan your project today
We work on projects of various sizes, and collaborate with industry experts where needed to deliver a tailor service.
To discuss your project and see how ARJ Surveying & Design can support you, contact us today!
