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Planning | Professionalism paysLeft: The Planning team are dealing with LodgeDevelopments around the CountryTop: Extract from Vision Statement for 38 Lodge ParkPicture courtesy of Hankinson Ducket AssociatesBreydon Water Holiday Park: Part of the Park Resorts Development ProgrammeIn the meantime the Planning team aredealing with a number of major holidaycentre proposals with an application for38 holiday lodges being dragged throughthe planning system on a site in the SouthDowns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.A further application for just over 100holiday lodges has been submitted for anew holiday village at a site adjoining theLincolnshire Wolds Area of OutstandingNatural Beauty.Just to get these applications registered isnow taking an inordinate amount of preapplicationwork with the Local PlanningAuthority and prior consultation work withthe local community. Such work is nowa requirement necessary to complete theimpervious new 1APP standard planningapplication form for all planning authorities.Such applications now have to beaccompanied by a whole raft of supportingreports which depending on the locationmay include a Design & Access Statement,Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment,Ecological Surveys and Report, TreeSurvey and Report, Flood Risk Assessment,Sustainable Transport Assessment andTravel Plan, Tourism Need and EconomicImpact Assessment.With all these highly technical reports wehave found it useful to prepare a singleVision Statement which clearly sets outthe client’s vision for the site, the benefitsthat will accrue to the local community,environment and economy, and how any keyissues are being dealt with. Such statementshave been key to dealing with consultationswith the local community, Local Authorityand statutory bodies.If you are proposing any development orlooking to identify opportunities to increasethe value of your property, but are put offby the complexity of the current planningsystem, then please do not hesitate to getprofessional support by contacting the HLLHumberts Leisure Planning teamContactMartin Taylor BA(Hons) BTP MRTPI MIED MTS, Brightone: martin.taylor@humberts-leisure.comt: +44 (0)1273 325 911www.humberts-leisure.comHLL Humberts Leisure 39