Town planning consultancy | Acer Town Planning |

Providing experienced independent town planning consultancy advice

Acer Town Planning was founded by chartered town planner Emma Jones in 2019.

Emma previously worked for leading UK property and environmental consultancies and her knowledge spans a range of sectors including residential, commercial, leisure and retail.

With over 20 years’ expertise, Acer Town Planning supports clients to find creative and commercial solutions that add value to developments and navigate the complexities of the planning process.

Acer provides bespoke town planning services across a variety of different sectors to a wide range of clients including:

• housebuilders
• property developers
• businesses
• retailers
• landowners
• architects
• householders

What's your town planning challenge?

Planning Appraisals

A planning appraisal will help you to identify the possibilities and best strategy for your site or property. It will provide you with bespoke planning strategy advice and options to deliver your vision tailored to your specific requirements and circumstances.

Planning applications

Acer Town Planning guides clients through each stage of the planning process across a range of application types.

• Pre-application advice
• Detailed planning application
• Outline planning application
• Hybrid planning application
• Condition variation and discharge
• Advertisement consent
• Listed building consent
• Lawful development certificates

With expert knowledge of planning and the property lifecycle, Acer Town Planning can project manage the entire process for you from the inception of your proposals through to development.

Alternatively, you can tailor the level of planning support required from the following range of planning consultancy services:

• Briefing and instructing the right team for your project
• Planning strategy advice
• Confirming application scope
• Preparation and submission of pre-application requests
• Liaison with Planning Officers
• Co-ordination of and managing technical consultants
• Reviewing and commenting on supporting technical information to ensure it is appropriate for planning submission
• Preparation of planning justification/compliance reports
• Preparation and submission of planning applications
• Post-submission monitoring and negotiations
• Responding to application comments
• Preparation for attendance at Planning Committee
• Input to Section 106 negotiations

Site promotion

Acer Town Planning helps clients promote sites and schemes through the various stages of the development plan process. This includes:

• Managing and preparing representations
• Preparation and input to development frameworks and masterplans
• Expert review and critique of development plan evidence bases
• Appearing at Development Plan Examinations

Planning appeals

In the event that an application is refused or not determined, there is recourse to planning appeal. Acer Town Planning can help you with:

• Written representations
• Hearings
• Inquiries
• Expert Witness

Community consultation

Consultation takes many forms and will be guided by the nature and scale of proposed development schemes. It encompasses public consultations, stakeholder meetings, on-line consultations, leaflet campaigns and social media campaigns.

Acer can manage community consultations on your behalf or work alongside other consultants to ensure that planning considerations are properly taken into account when undertaking consultation.

Fees

Fees are priced on an individual basis for each project, based upon estimated complexity, time taken and duration. Projects are usually priced on a fixed fee basis and if you would like to know more please get in touch to discuss the scope and pricing of your project.

Feedback from clients

‘I highly recommend Emma. She provides a high quality service, a thorough understanding of commercial considerations and, through her pragmatic planning expertise, maximises results.’

'We have dealt with Acer Town Planning recently on two of our sites & we have found them diligent, on time and value for money, would recommend them for any of your planning consultancy requirements.'

'I would like to recommend Emma Jones from Acer Town Planning. At Pride Road Architects we specialise in single and two story extensions, loft conversions, cellar conversions, garage conversions et cetera for domestic clients. We look at projects across many different councils, sometimes properties are in green belts, conservation areas, national parks. We work with both planning permissions and permitted development. Most of the time applications are straightforward but whenever I need specialist help I know I can call on Emma for advice and to support our applications!'

'Emma takes a detailed but holistic view in determining the right strategy to gain the best outcome for her clients. She works very much as an extension of the client's internal team as she’s passionate and well-rounded in decision making and giving good advice. Emma has also produced some excellent written statements which are concise, but in-depth and succinct; which makes reading easy to follow whilst being technical and informative.'

'We assigned Acer Town Planning to help us with a tricky planning permission. Having initially done it myself (never again) it very quickly became apparent that the terms set out were not clear and concise. Our new bar to be needed a further change of use... Emma was on the ball immediately and kept in touch at every step. Last month our consent approval was granted after a few long months and we are extremely satisfied we now have a new change of use. Our bar opens in a couple of weeks and thanks to Acer Town Planning we have clarified big changes that needed to be made.'