Around 70,000 planning applications are refused in England & Wales every year. Only 20% of those decisions are appealed – most people just give up. Of the decisions that are appealed, around 40% are successful (planning permission is granted). Our success rate is higher than that – we win more than 50% of our appeals. 

Some people don’t appeal because they assume the council knows what it is doing. Others can’t afford expensive consultants or don’t know how to go about it.

We charge just £399 to prepare, submit and manage your appeal.

A single, upfront fee. No extras. No hidden costs.

If you hire us to appeal on your behalf, our of our chartered planners will download all the relevant documents from the council’s website. They will then prepare a detailed written statement and email it to you for approval. 

The appeal is submitted online and your consultant will manage the process from start to finish. The only thing you may need to do is give the inspector access for a quick site visit. 

Appeals are not made to your local council. They are  decided by the Planning Inspectorate, a central government agency. If you appeal, the decision will be made by an independent inspector, who has no connection to your local council. 

It is mainly aimed at householders who are appealing against a refusal of planning permission for an extension. Our £399 service is not for large schemes or complicated proposals.

But we can help with those too – just contact us for a quote.

You get the services of a chartered town planner. All of our planners have degrees in planning and have worked both as case officers in local councils and in the private sector. They have approved and refused applications just like yours, countless times. They will produce a written report (of around 1,500 words) explaining why the council’s decision is wrong. They will submit the appeal and manage all liaison with the Council and the appeal inspector.

Lots of consultancies will review your case for free, and quote for any work they offer.

The problem with this is that they have an incentive to provide advice that generates work for them and, because the review itself is free, they are not incentivised to put a lot of time or effort into it.

In other words, you get what you pay for – if you want an independent, unbiased review of the council’s decision, it is better to pay a fee.

All of our planning consultants are chartered planners with at least 10 years experience.

They have worked both in local councils and in private practice. Because they were once case officers, they know how decisions are made and how case officers think. They can usually tell very quickly if a decision is fair or not.

Our planning consultants are very experienced and will produce a high quality appeal statement.

If there is particular information that you would like to provide or arguments you would like us to make, please email these to your consultant at the beginning of the process.

Your consultant will update the report if you have any comments or feedback on the first draft. 

We provide ourselves on offering an affordable, low-cost service to homeowners. To keep costs low, we cannot enter into lengthy discussions with clients or repeatedly revise our appeal statements. 

Householder planning appeals (i.e. relating to extensions to a house) generally take around 3 months. However, they can take longer.

Ask your consultant for current average timescales. 

If your appeal is not successful, we will explain why the inspector did not grant permission and provide some advice on your options.

The inspector may indicate how a proposal might be changed or improved. If so, we would normally recommend you revise the design and submit a new application to the Council.

Check out our appeal or case review pages for more information on each service.

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