Posts Tagged ‘Apex Planning Consultants’
Starter Homes and Affordable Housing
Further to our blog last month, another hot topic in the debate that led to the recent Housing and Planning Act 2016 was starter homes, ie, houses that are to be sold at prices at least 20% below market value and aimed at first-time buyers under the age of 40. To be honest, we’re not…
Read MorePlaying ball with the Housing and Planning Bill
A game of ping pong has been played with the Housing and Planning Bill between the House of Commons and the House of Lords in recent weeks, as the bill has gone back and forth being amended. This, of course, has caused a lot of anxiety as all this to-and and fro-ing has seriously delayed…
Read MorePersistence Pays Off in the World of Planning
Often when clients come to us they have spent a long time – sometimes years – trying to get planning permission. Once Apex Planning Consultants get involved, we can draw on our many years of experience in the planning world to achieve what has previously seemed achievable. Take, for instance, a client of ours who…
Read MoreA Great Start To The New Year
2016 certainly appears to have got off to a good start – with the announcement from David Cameron that the Government has promised to directly commission the building of homes on publicly owned land. This, he said, would lead to quality homes – many of which would involve smaller building companies – being built at…
Read MoreRural Development in Olney
Rural development is a hot topic – and one of our recent projects involved planning permission for a new building in Warrington, a hamlet situated to the North of Olney. The plan was to add a new building to an existing farm complex, currently comprising the commercial re-use of former agricultural buildings. These uses include…
Read MoreA Successful Year for Apex Planning Consultants in 2014
Happy New Year to you if we’ve not yet spoken! As this is our first blog post of 2015, we thought we’d take the opportunity to review last year… 2014 was certainly a busy year, and you’ll see from the sample below the scale and breadth of projects that we covered. We’re looking forward to…
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