Planning Advice

Why choose Prestige for your planning advice?

Our many years of experience in the local area has provided us with good relationships with all of the local planning offices. The path to reaching approval for plans is not always a smooth one but we are resilient and will work with both the client and the planning office until a design is found that meets all criteria. We rarely don’t succeed.

Our Planning Advice

  1. Visit your property/site and assess the development possibilities.
  2. Research the planning history of the property and local area.
  3. Review the conformity to Local Authority guidelines such as size restrictions.
  4. Assess potential construction issues.
  5. Establish the Permitted Development criterion.
  6. Confirm the planning constraints such as conservation areas, green belt and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

As a member of the Local Authority Building Control partnership we can offer a streamlined and consistent approach across all local authorities.

OUR PROJECTS

architect drawings of semi detached new build property in Hemel Hempstead

Corner plot maximisation (Hemel)

A large detached house on a large corner plot was crying out to have a development approved to maximise its value. Planning permission was obtained for a pair of semi-detached houses on the available land whilst retaining a good family garden for the original detached property.

Prestige Projects planning permission Dacorum

Development of a large garden

A detached house on a corner plot with a long rear garden received planning permission to add a pair of attractive semi-detached homes in the rear of the plot. These have now been built and sold by a developer we introduced.

planning permission for a barn conversion in Hemel Hempstead

Extension of a barn conversion

This detached ‘L’ shaped house from a previous barn conversion received planning approval for an extra wing to create a large family home.