When permission is refused or where the Council is taking too long to decide an application we can help. Our current appeal work includes:

  • 36 properties (33 flats, 3 houses) and the restoration of a non-designated heritage asset in the centre of Rushden, Northants, which will go to a Hearing in early September;
  • Works to regularise a new dwelling in open countryside in rural Northants. The dwelling is one of two that have been constructed incorrectly, both of which were subject to enforcement notices. At the same committee meeting the Council granted permission to regularise works to the neighbouring property but refused the client’s proposals;
  • A Class Q barn conversion in the Stratford district, which was refused for allegedly breaching other permitted development rights, and for potential impacts upon nesting birds; and
  • A major enforcement case in Central Bedfordshire relating to an extension to a waste transfer station and commercial site.

Successful Appeals

Listed Building Consent Approved on Thames Embankment

Planning permission at appeal..

We’re delighted to have secured planning permission at appeal for clients in West Northamptonshire and Luton.

Outline permission at appeal

We are very pleased indeed to have secured outline permission at appeal for up to 4 new dwellings in the village of Middleton, near Corby, for a new client.  Appeal ref is 3339033.

Consent at appeal

We are delighted to have secured consent at appeal for a client in Bedford for the retention of their 5 person HMO.  A license application triggered planning enforcement to contact the client, noting that there was no planning history.  The property had been a lawful HMO long before the local Article 4 direction was introduced […]