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Seminar On Rural Planning - 8th October 2009

  • Date:Thursday 8th October 2009
  • Time: Commencing 7pm
  • Entrance cost: free
  • Location: Gerard Graham & Company Estate Agents

  • Confused about the current planning system?
  • Trying to get planning permission to build?
  • Thinking about building a home in the near future?
  • Own a building that could have development potential?
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July 2009

Seminar On Rural And Urban Planning

  • Date: Thursday 23rd July 2009
  • Time: Commencing 7pm
  • Entrance cost: free
  • Speaker: Gemma Jobling MRTPI, Associate Planner
Topics to be covered:
  • Why we need planning guidelines
  • Issues with PPS14
  • Introduction of PPS21
  • Conditions for granting of planning permission for new-build properties and old buildings
  • Zoning of land in Magherafelt
  • Update on the proposed new Magherafelt bypass
  • Questions & Answers
Refreshments will be served after the presentation.
If you need some straight-forward answers to your planning queries or problems, come along.

Event location:
GERARD GRAHAM & COMPANY ESTATE AGENTS
9 Market Street, Magherafelt
N. Ireland, BT45 6EE

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PPS14 to PPS21 - Planning In The Countryside

News / Press Release Regarding PPS21 - Tuesday the 25th of November, 2008

Please download and read our announcement, comments and suggestions relating to PPS21 / PPS14. If you have any queries on the policy, or what we can do for you, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Click Here To View The Document

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02th Jun 2008

Expansion:

NewsElevate goes nationwide!

We are moving our northern Ireland base to new premises in Belfast, with a capacity to double our staffing level.
We will publish details of our GB bases during the next few weeks, as this exciting expansion phase develops.

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7th September 2007

PPS 14, Draft Magherafelt Area Plan & Draft Northern Area Plan – UNLAWFUL!

We are delighted to advise you that the High Court today ruled that PPS 14, the draft Magherafelt Area Plan and the draft Northern Area Plan are all unlawful. In other words, all three major policy publications have been scrapped.

Elevate Planning Consultants have been lobbying against these flawed policies for some years now. We met Senior Planning Officials, Government Ministers and ultimately the Judiciary in our efforts to persuade the powers that be that they were moving in the wrong direction. Our consultancy questioned the policy’s compliance with European Legislation specifically regarding the Strategic Environmental Assessment , the Department’s ability to act as ‘judge & jury’ in that they prepared the plan and also acted as consultees and the Plan’s ability to engage proper & effective public consultation, amongst other arguments. The respective Judges ruled in favour of our view.

newsIt may be some time before the fallout from these monumental decisions is known, but in the meantime any decisions to be taken by The Planning Service must be based on the former rural planning strategy, and on the old area plans in respect of the council districts of Magherafelt, Limavady, Coleraine, Ballymoney and Moyle.

Elevate Planning will be on hand to offer some more considered advice to each of our clients individually, specific to each potential development site, during the coming weeks. If you have a particular query please contact our planning staff on 02890 242 486. Alternatively, please email us at info@elevateplanning.co.uk. We would be delighted to offer assistance and advice.


Newletter 2007