Planning

Planning is a specialist area for the firm in its own right. We advise across the board on planning matters from very large projects of national significance to much smaller matters. 

Our team has extensive experience in advising those carrying out development as well as those who oppose it. Therefore, our clients turn to us for strategic and tactical advice on planning matters just as they seek advice on the details of planning procedure.

Here are a few examples of how we can help you:

  • making, opposing and monitoring applications for planning permission, listed building consent, conservation area consent and other consents
  • appeals, hearings and inquiries
  • development plans of all kinds
  • judicial reviews and other statutory challenges
  • environmental assessment, including strategic environmental assessment
  • enabling development

To learn more about the services we offer, please click on the linked brochures.

Our Butterworths book on the Planning Act 2008


A Practical Guide to National Infrastructure ProjectsThe Planning Act 2008 introduces far-reaching changes to the way many large projects are authorised, including airports, windfarms, nuclear power stations and reservoirs. A team of us at Bircham Dyson Bell have written the first book that explains the new regime, in a user-friendly way that will be useful to promoters as well as those likely to be affected by these major schemes. It explains the new policy and pre-application stages, as well as how to make an application, get it approved and implement it. The book is published by Butterworths.

Please click here to order the Practical Guide to National Infrastructure Projects.

We also edit most of Butterworths Planning Law Service, the loose leaf encyclopaedia that covers the whole spectrum of planning law.

To learn more about the services we offer, please click here.