Insolvency Practitioners
Are you finding that in these challenging times you are coming into contact with buildings, land or sites that you feel could have development potential? We know that you, as insolvency practitioners have a responsibility to maximise value from assets for shareholders and we can help you do that by realising value through the planning process.
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Development Viability Assessment
The viability of a development scheme has always been and is now, more than ever, a prime consideration in deciding whether to undertake that development.
Viability frequently becomes critical when Section 106 planning obligations sought by Local Planning Authorities are considered excessive and unreasonable having regard to the nature of the development proposed.
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Energy and Utilities
CgMs has an established reputation for providing independent and commercially aware advice to clients in the combined fields of Planning and Development, together with Archaeology and Historic Buildings. Working nationally, CgMs offers a range of services based upon many years of experience in both the private and public sectors. The practice is registered with the Royal Town Planning Institute, and is a member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment. It is a registered supplier on the Achilles Utilities Vendor Database.
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Government and Public Services
CgMs has extensive experience in negotiating planning permission for a range of specialist and sui generis uses for the Crown and other public sector bodies including police authorities. We have worked on behalf of the Home Office, immigration and prison services for more than ten years, advising them on negotiating planning permissions for specialised applications across the UK. We also provide a comprehensive planning service to the Metropolitan Police Authority, representing their interests in modernising the operational estate in line with the property strategy and achieving planning permission for a variety of specialised accommodation needs including custody centres, patrol bases and a Fire Arms Training Centre. We work closely with the client to ensure their needs are recognised and met through the planning system efficiently and cost effectively.
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Industrial Warehousing
CgMs has extensive experience in negotiating planning permission for all forms of industrial, warehousing and related development including Trade Parks. Additionally, we are frequently involved in persuading planning authorities to grant permission to alternative non-B Class uses such as car showrooms and residential. We have expertise in undertaking employment land availability studies. The team has also been successful in negotiating changes within the sector, for example to B8 where the Council are concerned about low employment generation and from B2/B8 where a Council wishes to preserve this particular type of employment. The team has also prepared and agreed with LPAs planning briefs, for the development of sites prior to disposal.
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Local Development Order
Fed up with planners creating obstacles, adding unnecessary costs and delays to managing your industrial portfolio so as to meet tenant requirements or future corporate business property needs? Sounds familiar?
Then maybe its time to start considering a “Local Development Order (LDO).” Why? The reason is that within an area so identified, you do not need planning permission and you can develop and use property assets for what you like, when you like, within the restrictions laid down in the LDO.
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Local Development Order - Healthcare
Is the planning system adversely affecting your Trust’s ability to deliver its future health care programmes?
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Local Development Order - Ports
Fed up with those planners creating obstacles, adding unnecessary costs and delays to managing your operational requirements to improve your port facilities?
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Make the Most of Your Vacant Site
Fed up with people saying the market is dead? Always hearing the same old excuse for your site? If that’s the case then read this bulletin and you may find a solution.
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The Planning Act 2008
The Planning Act received Royal Assent on 26th November 2008 which was a year to the day from when the Bill was first introduced by the Government. There have been some changes between the original Bill presented on 27th November 2007 and what is now the Planning Act 2008 but, in general, the fundamental provisions and changes to the planning system sought by the Government have remained intact.
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The Killian Pretty Review
Ways to make the planning application system faster and more responsive have been put forward with the publication of the Killian Pretty Review on 24 November 2008. It has 17 recommendations for modernising the planning application process which aim to make it more effective and make cost savings to all involved.
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Eco Towns Update
The second stage of the widely hailed Ecotowns Initiative was launched on the 4th November 2008.
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The Town & Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2008
On 30 July 2008 the Government published a new Statutory Instrument 2008 (No. 2093) amending the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations in relation to planning applications in England.
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General Permitted Development Order Changes
1st October 2008
A public consultation in 2007 looked at ways of reducing bureaucracy for householders seeking to improve their homes while protecting the interests of neighbours, the wider community and the environment.