Brimble Lea & Partners

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Practice Summary

Established independent Practice of Planning Consultants, Architects, Surveyors and Estate Agents providing comprehensive range of planning and professional services. The business focuses on the Wessex Counties of Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire, but commissions are regularly undertaken through South and West of England. Clients include private Clients, Local Authorities,Developers, and Landed Estates.

Main Planning Services

Planning Applications and Appeals. Representations into Local and Structure Plans. Conservation Area and Listed Building Applications. Enforcement Procedures and Appeals, Breach of Condition Notices. Expert Witness work and Instructions to Counsel. Compulsory purchase and compensation. Planning Law. Negotiations with Local Authorities.

Projects Involved

Projects involved, barn conversions for residential and commercial schemes. Agricultural dwellings. New farm complexes, diversification of farms,irrigation and water schemes, mineral and landfill sites. Removal and valuation of Agricultural ties, residential allocations and permissions, commercial buildings, low cost and sheltered housing schemes, Leisure Centres, Caravan Sites and Mobile Home Sites, Travelling Showpeople and Gypsy Sites.

Recent Examples of work include

20 acres housing development in Gillingham, Dorset. Conversions of barns into dwelling - South Somerset. Conversions of barns into Light industrial Workshop, Milton Abbas, North Dorset. Variation of Agricultural occupancy condition, Tisbury, Wiltshire. Travelling Showpeople sites in Green Belt - Bromsgrove and Basildon, Essex. Mobile homes/Agricultural dwelllings - New Forest District. Conversion of barns into mixed business/residential properties (workhomes) - Mendip and South Somerset Districts.

Related work

Architecture and surveyors services. Planning supervisor services (construction design and development regulations). Building Regulations Applications. Valuation and development appraisals. Sales and acquisitions of land. Rent reviews. Lease renewals.

Legal: Licensed Access to the Bar

Legal: Public Inquiries

Conservation: Archaeology

Local & Strategic Planning: Development Briefs

Local & Strategic Planning: Local Plans

Local & Strategic Planning: Development Plan Monitoring

Countryside & Environment: AONB (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty)

Conservation: Conservation Areas

Conservation: Listed Buildings

Conservation: Rural Conservation

Conservation: Urban Conservation

Agriculture: Agricultural Developments

Agriculture: Barn Conversions

Agriculture: Diversification

Agriculture: Estates

Agriculture: Farms

Agriculture: Horticulture

Agriculture: Liveries

Agriculture: Small Holdings

Business: Advertisements / Canopies / Blinds

Business: Business and Science Parks

Business: Change of Use

Business: Car Parking / Access

Business: Enforcement

Business: Extensions / Alterations of Premises

Business: Lawful Development Certificates

Business: New Premises

Business: Working from Home

Countryside & Environment: Gypsy / Traveller Sites

Countryside & Environment: Rights of Way

Countryside & Environment: Tree Preservation Orders

Design: Crime Prevention Design

Housing: Housing Design Layout

Design: Masterplanning

Design: Urban Design

Neighbourhood & Community Planning: Schools / Community Buildings

Health Planning: Health Centres

Housing: Affordable Housing

Housing: Appeals

Housing: Applications

Housing: Boundaries / Curtilage

Housing: Car Parking

Housing: Housing Needs Studies

Housing: House Extensions

Housing: Light Issues

Housing: Objections

Housing: Residential Developments

Housing: Social Housing

Industrial: Light Industry

Industrial: Utilities

Industrial: Waste Disposal

Legal: Advocacy

Legal: Appeals

Legal: Covenants

Legal: Injunctions

Legal: Land Tribunals

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Contractual Disputes

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Expert Witness

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Mediation

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Planning Gain

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Section 106 Agreements

Local & Strategic Planning: EIP (Examination in Public)

Local & Strategic Planning: Green Belt

Local & Strategic Planning: Sub-regional Planning

Retail: Advertisements / Canopies / Blinds

Retail: Car Boot Sales

Retail: Change of Use

Retail: Markets

Retail: Shops

Tourism & Leisure: Amusement Centres

Tourism & Leisure: Caravan Parks / Camping Sites

Tourism & Leisure: Golf Courses

Tourism & Leisure: Fast Food / Take Away Outlets

Tourism & Leisure: Health Clubs

Tourism & Leisure: Hotels

Tourism & Leisure: Playing Fields

Tourism & Leisure: Public Houses

Tourism & Leisure: Restaurants

Tourism & Leisure: Tourism

Transport: Car Parks

Urban Regeneration: Blight

Urban Regeneration: Brownfield Sites

Urban Regeneration: Compulsory Purchases

Urban Regeneration: PPP (Public & Private Partnerships)