Planning Permissions for Property Development

Whether you're planning an extension, a new build, or a major renovation, we help you avoid delays, reduce risk, and keep your project moving smoothly.

Planning Permissions for Property Development

Building | Extending | Refurbishing – Residential | Commercial | Mixed-use

As an award-winning Chartered Building Consultancy in London, we guide you through every stage of the planning process. From advising whether permission is required to preparing fully compliant applications, we handle the details. We also arrange essential supporting surveys—ecological, structural, arboricultural, and more—to ensure your proposal aligns with local planning policies.

Whether you’re planning an extension, a new build, or a major renovation, we help you avoid delays, reduce risk, and keep your project moving smoothly.

Full Planning Permissions | Outline Planning Permissions | Householder Applications

What We Do

We secure planning permissions, navigate complex regulations and processes to ensure your project receives the necessary approvals, while maximizing its potential.

We provide a comprehensive technical planning consultancy service for Full Planning Permissions, Outline Planning Permissions and Householder Applications. Ensuring every element of your proposal is fully evidenced, policy-compliant, and ready for formal assessment.

1. Determine Statutory Requirements

We undertake a detailed review of the proposal against the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order and relevant local development frameworks to confirm whether the works fall under permitted development or require full planning consent.

2. Technical Preparation of Planning Submissions

Our team prepares precise measured surveys, CAD drawings, site plans, elevations, and supporting statements. All documentation is produced to local authority validation standards, including scaled drawings, design and access statements, and heritage or impact assessments where required.

3. Planning Policy Analysis

We analyse national planning guidance (NPPF, PPG) alongside local development plans, neighbourhood plans, and supplementary planning documents, providing clear interpretation of policy constraints, opportunities, and land-use designations relevant to your site.

4. Management of the Regulatory Process

We oversee the complete application lifecycle, including digital submission to the Local Planning Authority, validation liaison, responses to technical queries, and monitoring until determination. Where required, we prepare revisions, clarifications, or additional evidence to facilitate a positive outcome.

5. Undertake, Commission and Coordinate Specialist Surveys

We identify and procure all survey data necessary to support a robust submission, including:

Structural & Condition Surveys
Structural integrity assessments and feasibility evaluations for existing buildings.

Neighbouring Impact Assessments
Right to Light studies, daylight/sunlight analyses, and Party Wall considerations.

Ecological & Arboricultural Assessments
Habitat surveys, protected species reports (bats, GCN, nesting birds), and BS5837 tree surveys/arboricultural method statements.

Why Choose Us

We Reduce the Risk of Refusal

We Provide professionally prepared plans and documentation that significantly lower the chance of your application being rejected.

We help you avoid Costly Construction Errors

We provide accurate drawings and technical guidance help prevent mistakes that can lead to expensive redesigns or on-site delays.

We Ensure Full Regulatory Compliance

Every element of your proposal is checked against planning and building regulations to keep your project fully compliant.

We Navigate Complexity

We have an exceptional track record of successfully managing complex regulatory approvals, including planning applications, Building Control, Party Wall Awards, Listed Building Consent, and even highly difficult permissions within an AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) or involving TPOs (Tree Protection Orders).

Built on Solid Foundations

Our experience is grounded in foundations of both academic rigour and more than four decades of practical, board-level and site experience.

Comprehensively Regulated

We are comprehensively regulated as surveyors and engineers by multiple professional bodies, giving you total assurance in our work. Our key memberships include:

RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors)

CIOB (Chartered Institute of Building)

CABE (Chartered Association of Building Engineers)

IPWS, Eur Be, MAK

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I have used Lausten Lehrmann to get all my developments through planning without any conditions for a past 15+ years. That being in London and in Lincolnshire. I can highly recommend Mr. Tue from Lausten Lehrmann for any planning jobs, small or large. You will not find any one trustworthy professional and better human beings than Mr. Tue Lehrmann.

Ireneusz Eric T

We Reduce the Risk of Refusal, help you avoid Costly Construction Errors and Ensure Full Regulatory Compliance

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