The town of Harleston lies within the area of Norfolk served by South Norfolk District Council. This means that most planning applications for extensions to homes, new developments, change of use and agricultural matters will be referred to the planning department in Long Stratton for determination.
East of England Planning Consultants Ltd has direct, working experience of dealing with the determination of applications. Indeed, one of our directors served as the Vice-Chair of the Development Control Committee at a Norfolk borough council for 4 years and served as an elected councillor …

There has been quite a bit of interest on the east coast with regard to the new planning regulations that are sought to come into effect in the Enterprise Zones in Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth.
A Local Development Order, or LDO, has the ultimate aim of of helping to provide a simplified regime to stimulate new economic development into a specific area or zone providing certainty and reducing costs for potential developers. LDOs are very flexible in that they can apply to a specific site, sites or wider geographical areas, …

We at East of England Planning Consultants are constantly looking at ways to use digital technology to help get relevant information to our clients as quickly and as efficiently as possible. We try and use the same systems with our clients as we do with our colleagues. This means that not only do we save time when working with you but we also save you money.
Typically, you can expect from us regular updates via email as to the progress of your project, full liaison with the planning officer with the …

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With the Localism Bill becoming the Localism Act in November last year when it gained Royal Assent it became clear that the changes proposed really are on the way.
What the Localism Act actually means varies from writer to writer. We as planning consultants have been to numerous seminars, lectures, talks we like minded professionals and the common question appears to be ‘how much difference will it really make?’.
The enforcement sections of the Act are both useful and needed. The the law on Concealment has been tightend up through the recent …