Our Planning and Impact Services

Often the most important part of any application, especially more complicated schemes, is pre-planning.  This is a chance to ask questions and get the opinion of the Council planners.  Remember, the Council writes the policy and objectives for the area, so it always important to understand their thinking.

We are most often asked to co-ordinate a team of professionals in the preparation of a planning application . It’s not simply about getting reports and plans from a wider team.  We are helping the client deliver a scheme that seeks to balance commercial imperatives with the policy and objectives for the area.  

We prepare many retail impact assessments for the retail industry.  RIA’s can be a complex to prepare, so we always start by speaking to the Planning Authority to see how much information we can agree.  Likewise, we also seek to agree the professional assumptions used in the building blocks of any projection model.

Sequential Assessment for Retail and other forms of urban development is more and more a part of applications.  Have you found the right site?  Are there other sites that you should be considering?  We can advise on this early in the planning process.

We provide a report setting out how your development accords with prevailing policy and objectives.  But importantly we can also advise where your scheme is weak and needs to be revised. 

Making an evidence-based submission to a new Local Area Plan or Development Plan can enhance the future developability of your property.  

Sometimes you simply need an opinion on the likelihood of achieving planning permission.  We can provide this for many forms of development.  

Tony Bamford Planning is often called to defend development projects at Appeal to An Bord Pleanala.  Providing a succinct appeal document that addresses the main issues is one of our key strengths.  

Tony Bamford has acted as a professional, planning witness at many appeal, Oral Hearings and in the Courts.