Case Study
Venus House
Planning Success on Green Belt and Heritage Land
Development Type: Private Residential
Status: Planning Application
LPA: East Hertfordshire Council
County: Hertfordshire
Designation: Green Belt, Heritage, Landscape
- Worked closely with the architects and wider consultant team to prepare an ambitious, robust, high-quality bespoke new dwelling scheme on a Green Belt site.
- Developed a detailed planning strategy utilising both National and Local Planning Policy Framework focusing on ‘Very Special Circumstances’ as the internal planning consultant.
- Worked closely with the client appointed independent external planning consultant.
- Provided project design policy review checkpoint for the architect design team at RIBA Stage 2 Concept and Pre-submission check point at RIBA Stage 3.
- Coordinated wider consultant team to formulate the final planning submission information.
- Reviewed case law to further support the project submission preparing a robust case law report to present to Local Planning Authority.
- Led the pre-application and planning application process as the client agent including providing expert planning negotiation with the Local Planning Authority.
- Provided expert assistance for the planning rebuttal case including providing expert planning reports, evidence of case law and judicial review support for the application to the external planning consultants team.
- Successfully represented the application as the internal planning agent for the project sitting alongside the architects team and successfully represented the architect and applicant in an appeal hearing in support of the independent planning consultants.
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Results
- Achieved planning approval on a Green Belt safeguarded land site in close proximity to a listed asset in a protected character landscape based solely on planning policy requiring justification of Very Special Circumstances.
- First subterranean and partial subterranean planning approval in East Hertfordshire Council history.
- 7,615 sq ft of luxury home.
- 81,110 sq ft of land area.
- Gained planning consent approval for Venus House a design dubbed ‘Britain’s healthiest home’.
- Formed an instrumental role in liaising with medical experts at the California Lyme Disease Association and interpreted the medical and biophilic philosophies put forward by the architect into planning policy support to obtain the successful planning approval.
- Successfully obtained planning approval via planning appeal hearing.
- New Build approval adjacent Grade 2 Listed heritage property.
- Venus House winner of Northern Design Award exceptional space award.