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Should I employ a Chartered Planning Consultant or an Architect to get Planning Permission?
Securing planning permission is an increasingly complex and daunting process - especially when it involves navigating ever-changing local policies, planning law and design expectations.
One of the most common questions we are asked at Salmon Planning is:
“Should I employ a planning consultant or an architect to get planning permission?”

Nigel Salmon
4 days ago3 min read
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Edge of village Greenfield site Planning Appeal win
Planning appeal win for development on an edge of village greenfield site in East Somerset

Dan Foster - Chartered Town Planner
Apr 172 min read
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Planning permission with onerous planning conditions?
Salmon Planning wins appeal in Somerset challenging a raft of unjustified conditions and for Council to pay the clients' costs.

Dan Foster - Chartered Town Planner
Apr 12 min read
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New FAQs: Your First Stop for Planning Advice
The planning system can be daunting. Our new FAQs are designed to give you answers to the most common planning questions.

Nigel Salmon
Mar 263 min read
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Planning Appeal Success: Case Study
In January 2025 we were delighted to achieve planning permission when an appeal was allowed in Portishead, North Somerset

Dan Foster - Chartered Town Planner
Mar 72 min read
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Four Planning Appeal Wins in 2025 and it's only mid-February!
Don't be despondent if your planning application is refused. We are already celebrating four Planning Appeal wins so far in 2025!

Dan Foster - Chartered Town Planner
Feb 123 min read
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Planning Application Fees to increase dramatically from 1 April 2025
Planning Application Fees are set to rise dramatically from 1st April 2025 - some by as much as 105%.

Dan Foster - Chartered Town Planner
Jan 243 min read
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Pre-application advice or not?
The government has long promoted the role of pre-application advice. But is it worth it? We discuss.

Dean Titchener
Jan 152 min read
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Salmon Planning secures approval for farmhouse for Wiltshire alpaca farmer after fifteen years of thwarted planning appeals
Salmon Planning secures approval for farmhouse for Wiltshire alpaca farmer after fifteen years of thwarted planning appeals

Nigel Salmon
Nov 20, 20242 min read
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What is a Chartered Town Planner?
What exactly is a Chartered Town Planner and when might you need one?

Nigel Salmon
Jun 26, 20243 min read
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