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Planning Consultants in Lincolnshire

While Lincolnshire is protective of its landscapes, which include an extensive coastline and the Lincolnshire Wolds, policies are in place to encourage house building and job creation. Sustainable development is prioritised along with improvements to infrastructure and heritage sites that attract tourism.

If you are considering a complicated development scheme in Lincolnshire, engaging a planning consultant may help it to secure planning permission. We outline the role of planning consultants and examine Lincolnshire County Council’s development plan before highlighting development schemes managed by five planning consultancies in the county.

The Role of Planning Consultants

Planning consultants have a specific skill set, which includes a specialist knowledge of planning policy. Chartered town planners will have extensive experience of the local authority development plan, along with national planning policies, and work to ethical guidelines. They will usually have good working relationships with local authority planning officers and will be able to carry out post application discussions with them.

Planning consultants’ services generally include site appraisals, feasibility studies, preparation and submission of planning applications, impact assessments, follow-up negotiations and planning appeals.

Lincolnshire County Council’s 2024 Development Plan

Sustainable growth is prioritised, alongside enhancing infrastructure, addressing housing needs and preserving the county’s stunning landscapes and rural character. By 2035, Lincolnshire plans to build approximately 29,000 new homes, while improving connectivity and supporting economic development through job creation and business investment.

A significant challenge for Lincolnshire is balancing development with the protection of its natural beauty, including the Lincolnshire Wolds and its coastline. The council emphasises using brownfield sites and promoting eco-friendly designs to minimise environmental impact. Initiatives to maintain tourism appeal, such as preserving heritage sites and green spaces, are also central to the strategy.

Major areas earmarked for development include Lincoln, with plans for urban regeneration and housing, and Grantham, where infrastructure improvements will support new residential and commercial projects. Two notable schemes in the pipeline are the Western Growth Corridor in Lincoln, which combines housing, commercial space, and leisure facilities, and the South Lincolnshire Food Enterprise Zone, promoting agricultural innovation and local employment.

Five Planning Consultancies in Lincolnshire

Austin John

Austin John offers a comprehensive range of town planning services in Lincolnshire, Rutland, Norfolk and across the UK, advising on all aspects of the planning process. From a new project to alterations, the team can advise on listed building consent, heritage impact statements for properties in conservation areas and compliance with all the necessary regulations. Austin John can submit a planning application, handle a planning appeal and provide architectural services and 3D visualisation.

Austin John achieved planning permission for this beautiful barn conversion and extension scheme. The project retained the large barn doors which will be repurposed and renovated to create a unique home that’s full of character and features large windows letting in natural light.

Fytche Taylor

Working with landowners and developers across the East Midlands, Fytche Taylor can prepare planning applications and satisfy architectural design and building regulations for all types of development.

Fytche Taylor secured planning permission for this stunning new self-build home near Lincoln. Situated on a 0.6-acre plot previously occupied by a bungalow, the house covers 6,125 sq. feet. Fytche Taylor provided full architecture services and prepared and submitted a planning application that received no requested amendments and secured planning permission in 8 weeks.

Lincs Design consultancy

Dealing with all aspects of development, Lincs Design Consultancy is a multi-disciplinary town planning consultancy based in Louth. It offers architectural, planning, environmental and landscape services at all scales. Specialising in sustainable design, it can deal with mixed use schemes, residential, commercial, hotels, retail, listed buildings and equestrian facilities. The team provides full design and supervisory services from concept to drawings and handles planning appeals.  

Lincs Design Consultancy’s project, The Foxes Maltings, featured on the Channel 4 show, Grand Designs.

Dieter Nelson Planning Consultancy

This independent town planning consultancy has 20 years of experience in the public and private sectors and provides a broad range of planning services for housing, commercial, retail, leisure and heritage projects.

Dieter Nelson obtained planning permission for this replacement dwelling in Humberston, northeast Lincolnshire, where the brief was to create a family sized home in a sought-after residential location.

Neil Dowlman Architecture

Offering a comprehensive range of town planning services Neil Dowlman Architecture has a network of offices across Lincolnshire. The team has extensive experience in schemes from residential extensions to new developments, and can provide preplanning advice and prepare and submit planning applications, handle project management, deal with local authority negotiations and planning appeals. The firm includes chartered architectural technologists and chartered building engineers and offers regeneration consultancy services to identify alternative uses for brownfield and redundant sites.

This striking contemporary extension uses aluminium cladding and steel alongside large glazed areas and bi-fold doors to provide open plan living in an early to mid-20^th century traditional house.

Find the Right Town Planning Consultancy for your Scheme

If you decide that your scheme could benefit from specialist planning advice, the first step is to identify a firm with considerable experience in similar projects to yours. Many planning consultancies provide a free initial consultation, when you can discuss your project. Ask to see examples of their recent projects to see if their work is of the highest quality.

Chartered town planning consultants offering a broad range of planning services will give you access to specialist advice if you need it. Strategic planning advice from planning consultants may well give your development project its best chance of gaining planning permission.