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info@CivicPlace.co.uk

Civic Place
  • Home
  • Our model
    • How it works
    • Planning
    • Risk
  • For councils
    • Value Proposition
    • Funding
    • Questions Councils Ask
  • About us
    • Our Leadership
    • Our Partners
  • Contact us
    • Get In Touch

Planning

A planning approach that removes risk for councils

Planning is where most council-led schemes stall. Civic Place designs the scheme, prepares every report and manages the application from first pre-application meeting to decision. The council does not fund any of it, and consent is sought for affordable housing only. 



How we take a scheme through planning

1. Feasibility

3. Technical studies

2. Pre-application

 We test capacity, access, constraints and viability, and agree a scheme that fits the site and local policy. 

2. Pre-application

3. Technical studies

2. Pre-application

 We meet planning officers early, involve the council’s housing and regeneration teams, and consult the community before submission. 

3. Technical studies

3. Technical studies

3. Technical studies

 We fund every report the application needs, from transport and flood risk to ecology, energy and daylight. 

4. Decision

3. Technical studies

3. Technical studies

We submit a full application for affordable housing only and manage it through to decision and conditions. 

Timeline

From first meeting to planning decision in around 8 to 10 months

 Feasibility and concept design: 6 to 10 weeks. Pre-application engagement: 8 to 12 weeks. Application preparation: 6 weeks. Determination: typically 13 to 16 weeks for major applications. Timescales are indicative and depend on the site, the local authority and the scale of the scheme. 

Planning risk

Planning risk sits with Civic Place, not the council

 

  • All costs are ours. Design, surveys, consultant fees and application fees are paid by Civic Place.
  • No cost if consent is not secured. The council has paid nothing and has no General Fund exposure.
  • Refusals are our risk too. If an application is refused, the cost of any revised scheme, resubmission or appeal falls on Civic Place.
  • The land is protected. If no planning application is submitted within 12 months, the clawback in the lease returns the land to the council. 

Independent decision-making

The council’s role as landowner never influences its role as planning authority

 

  •  Where the council owns the site, its planning decision is made independently, on the same basis as any other application. The scheme is judged on its merits against the Local Plan and national policy. 
  •  Civic Place deals with the council as landowner through its property team, and with the planning service as any other applicant would. We expect officers and members to apply the council’s usual procedures for applications on council-owned land, and we work within them. 

PLANNING CONSENTS SECURED BY FULLER LONG

Kent Coast

Guildford Surrey

Swale, Kent

Fuller Long secured planning permission for an additional storey on an existing block of flats, creating new residential accommodation by the seaside in Kent. 

Swale, Kent

Guildford Surrey

Swale, Kent

Planning permission was granted for the demolition of a pre-existing housing complex and the building of a brand new housing scheme offering 40 affordable family sized properties. 

Guildford Surrey

Guildford Surrey

Guildford Surrey

The granted development comprises 19 units ranging from 1 to 3 bedroom apartments along with associated car parking and landscaping. 

Civic Place Ltd. Registered in England and Wales, company number 17043041. Registered office: 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX.

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