About Plande
Securing planning permission for Businesses, Developers, Land Owners, Private Clients & Architects/ Designers since 2007.

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Plande are proactive planning professionals working across the UK. Development enablers who achieve the result you need: permission for your project. With an impressive track record across the UK, we get results where others have failed. Because at Plande, we do things a little differently. Small enough to provide a personal service and large enough to have the essential contacts and experience, we manage your project creatively and comprehensively. A bespoke approach that boosts your chances of planning success. Working alongside an extensive network of specialist consultants, Plande gives you more than just high-quality advice from experienced professionals. You’ll get fresh, creative insights into your project. A perspective that aims to get results every time. Expertly led by a dual-chartered RTPI town planner and RIBA architect, we offer design-focused planning consultancy services for developers, land owners, businesses, architects and private clients.
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Discuss your project with the experts
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Plande take a design-led approach to your planning application.
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To tick some of the many boxes, you need the architectural and presentation drawings along with supporting information. You also need to present a vision. This is where the professionals at Plande step in. As development enablers, we unlock the potential of your property or land by understanding your challenge and objectives, navigating through the red tape, solving problems creatively and getting the right result. By combining our planning and architecture expertise, we comprehensively draft applications that gently lead decision-makers towards the ideal outcome. Working alongside an extensive network of specialist consultants, Plande gives you more than just high-quality advice from experienced professionals. You’ll get fresh, creative insights into your project. A perspective that aims to get results every time.
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Choose Plande and you’ll be working with professionals who can:
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- Give your application the attention it deserves: we select projects carefully to focus on adding value and making a difference
- Create a bespoke strategy tailormade to your project
- Navigate the often complicated planning maze on your behalf
- Team up with skilled consultants including highways specialists, ecologists, barristers and surveyors to ensure expert input at every level
- Submit a robust scheme to reduce risk, minimise time to secure permission and maximise value
- Bring your project to life, convincing planners and council members of its positive impact on your property and the community
- Secure planning permission on challenging sites with minimum fuss, making your scheme viable as soon as possible
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At Plande, we love a planning challenge. And we love getting results.
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The expertise your project demands
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At Plande, we thrive on tackling complex planning challenges. We only take on projects that demand our exceptional problem-solving skills. You could be a developer working on a major mixed-use scheme, an architect designing a beautiful building, an individual considering a self-build home or a land owner wanting to realise your asset’s potential. Whatever planning hurdles you’re facing, it’s likely Plande have managed a similar application and can get you the result you need. Our experience spans many sectors and many types of application for many types of client. We take the same approach to each and every one: proactive, creative and focused.
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As development enablers, our planning consultants services are focused on achieving success. We’ll work closely and creatively with you, immersing ourselves in each project to get the desired outcome: planning permission. For developers, architects, businesses and private clients you’ll have the go-ahead to start construction. For land owners, you’ll have the reassurance that you’ve added value to your site. See our Case Studies
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