Overview
Geoffrey Searle Planning Solicitors offers specialist planning advice to developers, real estate professionals and private individuals. The majority of the firm's clients and sites are in London and the South East but we cover the country including a growing number based locally in East Anglia and the East Midlands.
The main services offered by the practice include:
- Site assessment including research into planning history and the implications of current national and local planning policy
- Planning applications and appeals to secure planning permission, advising on negotiating strategy and advocacy at committee meetings and Inquiries
- Development Plan representations to secure a site's development potential
- High Court challenges to overturn decisions of public authorities
- Legal Agreements to ensure that a development proposal accords with planning policy
- Certificate of Lawfulness applications to secure a site's planning status and boost its development potential
- Compulsory purchase issues including making objections, serving blight notices and other procedures to protect clients' rights
- Environmental Impact Assessment problems as to when and if they are required and what they need to cover
- Planning objection representations opposing development proposals
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