Planning Solicitors

Our experts will help simplify business planning law

The Planning Team at Mayo Wynne Baxter provides a comprehensive planning service for you and your business. We appreciate that the commercial realities of planning permission laws can appear convoluted, and our planning solicitors will work with you to understand planning legislation.

We want to make sure that you and your business receive the desired outcome in relation to commercial planning permissions, as well as ensuring we keep costs to a minimum. Working in a vast team of property experts, our planning law solicitors specialise in:

  • The drafting of Section 106 obligations
  • Individual objections to planning applications
  • Planning appeals, whether they are informal hearings or inquiries
  • Development in the countryside
  • Certificates of Lawful Use and Development
  • Defending clients who have been served with enforcement notices
  • Listed buildings issues
  • High court appeals and Judicial Review

Friendly, expert and receptive: our planning solicitors know planning law

When it comes to knowledge and experience, our planning lawyers have it in abundance. What makes our working relationships so strong with all our clients is that we listen and base our advice on their needs.

Our clients cover a number of industries and sectors, so our team of skilled and efficient planning lawyers can apply their experience to any case, and tailor their planning advice to your specific legal needs.

Contact Linda Saunders today for further expert advice, or to arrange an appointment.

Latest News

Planning Change Affects Private Landlords
Little publicised, but nonetheless important for many private landlords, are changes implemented by the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Amendment) (England) Order 2010 , which mean that, in certain circumstances, a landlord wishing to let out a...
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Village Green Decision Supplies Blueprint for Stymieing Development
Most people – and certainly those who have been involved in an opposed planning application – know what a NIMBY is but, following a case heard in the Supreme Court, we may now see the rise of NOOViGs (not on our village greens). The reason for...
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Whole Agreement Clause Determines Payment Schedule
Construction projects inevitably lead to a large number of contracts being created between the various contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and developers involved. This in turn can produce problems in the event of a dispute, as it can be difficult to...
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Use of Premises Makes Rent an Administration Expense
Insolvencies have been running at a high rate for some time now, presenting problems for landlords and tenants alike. It should be remembered that the expenses of the administration of an insolvent company rank for payment before debts due to unsecured...
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Planning Permission- Conservatories New Mini Guide
The Planning Portal has issued a new interactive guide which shows that adding a single storey conservatory to your house does not require planning permission provided certain conditions shown on the summary attached are met. If your house is within a...
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Buyers Who Won't Buy - What to Do?
Many developers have been faced with the problem of having to persuade buyers who bought ‘off plan’ before the credit crunch struck to complete their purchases in the light of the subsequent decline in property prices. If you are faced with such...
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Landlord's Intention Must Be Long Term
When a tenant’s lease is governed by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , the landlord has limited grounds for refusing to renew the lease. One possible ground is that the landlord wishes to make use of the premises for its own business purposes. In a ...
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Planning Update- Riding arena faces call-in
The Government Office for the South East (GOSE) will consider calling in a controversial application in an area of outstanding natural beauty if it is agreed by Wealden District Council this week. This means that the council will not have the power to...
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Unrecorded Public Rights of Way
Old rights of way have long been one of the most difficult areas of access legislation. At present, many old rights of way such as footpaths and bridleways are not recorded on the official ‘definitive map’ held by county councils. The result is a...
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Share Manoeuvres Cause Lease Breach
A company that was part of a group recently found that it had breached its lease when a corporate reorganisation was carried out. The problem arose because the lease on the company’s premises contained a clause that the tenant company was allowed to...
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Planning Permission for Re-Submitted Application Overturned on Appeal
Following a refusal of planning permission, it is far from unusual for the unsuccessful application to be amended and re-submitted in the hope that, the second time, the outcome will be different. A recent case arose from this situation,...
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Monthly Rental Payments - BRC Keeps Campaigning
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has been campaigning for the past few years to try to encourage more commercial landlords to accept monthly rental payment arrangements instead of the quarterly payments commonly used. Although the BRC began pushing for...
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Planning Permission - Don't Panic
Builders and homeowners who wish to delay the start of building projects in these troubled times can breathe more easily now that the time limits for extensions to planning permissions have been lengthened. From 1 October 2009, an application to extend the...
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Commercial Arrangement Breaches Lease Terms
In a recent case, the courts had to consider the legality of a commercial arrangement undertaken by a bank with a company, the effect of which was to allow the company to ‘stand in its shoes’ with regard to a commercial lease. At issue was...
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Landlord Pays Price for Failing to Inform Tenant
If a landlord has concealed or misrepresented facts, it can be ordered to pay a departing commercial tenant compensation for any damages or loss sustained by the tenant that arise as a result of having to quit the premises. The legislation bringing this...
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Community Planning
Linda Saunders, Head of Planning at Mayo Wynne Baxter, has been  selected as a  v olunteer for Planning Aid, as part of a pro-bono community planning scheme designed to  give individuals and communities  access to...
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Private Landlords Hit By Rent Arrears
Nearly 75% of landlords have been hit by rent arrears as tenants struggle in the recession, a new report reveals. Figures recently released by The National Landlords Association show that more than 40% of the landlords lobbied have experienced problems with...
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Moving Target Causes Headache for Contractors
A recent case illustrates how complex building disputes can become when there are changes ‘on the fly’ to the work being carried out and the related paperwork does not keep pace. In the case in point, a contractor’s contract to fit out a...
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Mayo Wynne Baxter advise residents on planning proposals for Bowden House School
Mayo Wynne Baxter’s Head of Planning Linda Saunders has recently advised residents in Seaford about new proposals for Bowden House School. Plans have been submitted by Tower Hamlets Council, which own the school and use it to provide residential...
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Insolvent Landlord - Tenant's Lease Renewal Application Must Be Considered
Under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (LTA), a tenant normally has the right to renewal of a lease on commercial premises unless the landlord requires occupation of the premises for its own purposes, which may include the purpose of redeveloping the site....
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Freeze on Planning Application Fees
The Government has promised to freeze planning fees on applications to help developers through the economic recovery and keep builders on construction sites by saving them up to GBP 23 million a year. It is also confirmed that fees for planning appeals will...
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Garden Grabbing
John Healey, the Minister of State for Housing and Planning, has called on local authorities to establish local policies to prevent inappropriate building on back gardens. The councils in this area tend to have local measures in place to deal with...
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Who Can Go Where?
In England and Wales, the law relating to access to land position is governed by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 . In England and Wales, the public have the right to access what is called 'access land' – which is mainly registered common...
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Accessing Your Own Land
Prior to the introduction of revised procedures (set out in regulations under section 68 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 , which came into effect in July 2002), people who had to cross common land in order to reach their homes were sometimes...
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The South Downs National Park

The South Downs National Park is expected to be fully designated towards the end of this year, and the South Downs National Park Authority (NPA) will look after the Park from April 2011. Two areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (and the South Downs Joint committee) will be discontinued, and the NPA will become the planning authority for the National Park. You may find a change in the way your or your clients' land is dealt with, even if the rules do not change, and we will be tracking the progress of the NPA and can advise you on any changes to planning or access to land rules. For further information please contact Linda Saunders or download a summary of the South Downs National Park here.