Are you unsure about appealing your planning refusal?

We can help you decide the best way to proceed for only £99

If you have been refused planning permission, you will want to know why the application was refused and if the Council’s decision was fair.

When the planners refuse an application, they issue a Decision Notice that can be difficult to read and understand. It is important to have a clear sense of why the Council has reached their decision. 

For a fee of £99, one of our chartered planning consultants will look at your plans, some satellite images of your property and the surrounding area and at the details of the council’s decision. They will then provide you with a written opinion of whether the decision was justified.

If the decision is fair, we will let you know how you might change your plans to get a better result. If we think it was unfair, we will take you through your options, including an appeal.

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How our planning appeal process works

1) Easily order online

Once you have purchased the service online, we will be in touch via e-mail to obtain further information.

2) Dedicated town planner

Your own chartered town planner will spend some time looking over your application and the reason for it being refused.

3) The written review

We will then provide you with a written review of the decision and whether you should appeal the decision.

What does the review include?

For a fee of £99, a chartered planner (and former council case officer) will provide you with a written review of the decision, telling you:

  • Why your application was refused
  • Whether the decision was fair (in our consultant’s opinion)
  • How your proposal might be revised to make it acceptable
  • Whether you should appeal the decision


If the decision is fair, we will let you know how you might change your plans to get a better result.

If we think it was unfair, we will take you through your options, including an appeal.

View a sample case review

Case review FAQs

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.