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New builds & development

Small housing developments

For landowners and small builders, we take sites of a few homes from appraisal and layout through to planning approval.

Benjamin Plunkett, Managing Director
✓Free home visit ✓No obligation ✓Honest advice ✓Fixed price Ben, our Managing Director and Planning & Heritage Consultant, will visit your property anywhere in our six council areas.
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3D render of two new detached homes

What we do for developers

  • Feasibility. Site appraisal, policy review and capacity studies to show how many homes a site could realistically take.
  • Layout and design. Site layouts, house types and street scenes, designed in 3D.
  • The application. Planning statement, design and access statement, and coordination of the technical reports, such as highways, drainage, ecology, trees, BNG and archaeology.
  • Managing the process. Liaising with the planning officer, consultees and parish councils through to a decision, and on to discharging conditions.

Getting the numbers right

The value of a site depends on what it can get permission for. We aim for schemes that make the most of a site while staying realistic about what the council will accept, which avoids expensive refusals and redesigns.

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Who'll handle your project: Benjamin Plunkett, our Managing Director and Planning & Heritage Consultant, is your point of contact from the first site visit to the decision. Charlie Plunkett MCIAT produces the drawings.

About us
Recent projects

New Builds & Development projects

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Front of the new bungalow, with black weatherboarding, a red tiled roof and an oak porch
New build Tendring

A single-storey three-bedroom home in a rural setting

A new three-bedroom bungalow in Ardleigh, with black weatherboarding, a red tiled roof and an oak porch, approved by Tendring District Council.
The open side plot beside the existing house
Outline Woodbridge

Outline permission for a new home in a countryside cluster

Outline planning permission for a new three-bedroom house on a side plot at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in a small village near Woodbridge.
3D view of the blue weatherboarded house raised above the ground on timber steps
New build Tendring

A flood-resilient one-bedroom home in Jaywick

A new one-bedroom house in Jaywick Sands designed to the local flood-resilience design guide, with a raised ground floor, a first-floor refuge and solar panels.
Site layout showing two new homes reached by a shared drive
Outline Babergh

Outline application for two family homes in Bentley

An outline planning application for two detached four-bedroom chalet-style homes on garden land in Bentley, with a carefully planned layout, access and landscaping.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Do you work on larger schemes?

Our focus is smaller sites, typically up to around ten homes, where a planner and designer working closely together makes the biggest difference. Get in touch about larger sites and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.

Can you deal with planning conditions after approval?

Yes. We prepare and submit discharge of condition applications so you can start on site.

Benjamin Plunkett, Managing Director
Free home visit

Thinking about a project?

Ben, our Managing Director and Planning & Heritage Consultant, will come to you, look at the property and tell you honestly what's likely to get approved. Free, with no obligation, anywhere in Tendring, Babergh, Colchester, Braintree, Maldon and Ipswich districts.

Planning consultants and chartered designers in one team: drawings designed to get approved, with the same people from site visit to decision.

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