Acting for SCDLtd, we are delighted to confirm receipt of planning permission for 7 apartments in Colwyn Bay. Sited on a former school car park in the Pwllycrochan Conservation Area, the development posed a number of siting, design and access challenges to negotiate before ensuring this new development preserves and enhances a very special and high quality Conservation Area. It’s a great example where working with the planning authority, client and Architects Parry Davies from pre-application through to decision secure’s a successful outcome for all. We have greatly enjoyed working with this new client and look forward both to seeing it developed in the near future and to future projects with them.

Back in 2014 we secured planning permission for subdivision of a large house and garden and conversion of its outbuildings to a new house. Last year the client, approached us again to see whether extensions to the building would be possible. Being sited in the Cheshire Green Belt created issues with the concept of the “original” building, how that might in interpreted, the concept of inappropriate development and how that would be interpreted for the purposes of “inapproproppara 145(c) of the NPPF (the extension or alteration of a building provided that it does not result in disproportionate additions over and above the size of the original building) and whether the proposal amounted to that exception. After lots of hard work and pre-application discussions we have today secured planning permission for our clients enlargements and extensions.

If all those jargony terms and words confuse you - we exist to cut through them so you don’t have to and get permission.