Property and Planning Law

Specialist Planning Law Solicitors For Your Home Or Business

Whether you are a business or an individual with planning issues, we will take the time to understand what is important to you and provide you with practical legal solutions. We have extensive experience of all planning law matters and will use this experience to ensure that we can deal with your  issue as quickly and as economically as possible.

Our planning law team is headed by Nicholas Kingsley-Smith who is an expert in Property and Planning Law and can help you with any planning issues you may have. You can call Nicholas for advice on any planning matters (no charge for initial enquiries) on 01634 811 118 or you can email Nicholas.

In addition to his wide experience, Nicholas is a member of the Law Society's Planning Law Accreditation Scheme, and a Legal Associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute.

We undertake all aspects of planning law throughout England and Wales including :

  • Advising on development potential:
  • Planning Applications and Objections;
  • Appeals (especially enforcement notice cases);
  • Negotiating with Local Authorities over planning breaches;
  • Permitted development rights (GPDO October 2008)
  • Defence strategies on prosecutions;
  • Judicial Review;
  • Challenges against Inspector decisions;
  • Compulsory purchase compensation;
  • Lands Tribunal litigation and strategies;
  • Environmental protection cases;

Securing valuable planning permission for his clients is one of the aspects of his work that Nicholas particularly enjoys. He is also very effective in coordinating the work of architects, surveyors, builders, and others involved in land development projects.

Read more about Nicholas Kingsley-Smith, Specialist Planning Law Solicitor

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