Garden Centre

Garden Centre

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Whitehall is an extremely popular and successful garden centre near the historic and attractive National Trust village of Lacock. It has successfully grown on an ad hoc basis since 1968 and remains in the ownership of the Self family.

Existing garden centre

There had been a number of previous planning permissions to extend the centre over the previous decade but the family felt a more comprehensive redevelopment and re-ordering of the site was required. RCC were approached to provide planning consultancy services to take this proposal through the pre-application, community involvement and formal planning submission processes.

It was a very interesting but extremely challenging process to bring together a wide variety of specialist consultants to address the detailed issues raised by the planning proposal. RCC co-ordinated the whole process and we had to undertake careful negotiations with the planning officers. The result was a recommendation of approval from the officers.

Due to the size and nature of the proposal however, the application needed to be presented to the Strategic Planning Committee with councillors on that committee making the final decision. RCC attended and spoke to the committee promoting the proposal where, after a lengthy debate, councillors agreed to approve the planning application, much to the delight of our clients.

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Mr and Mrs Humphries, Dilton Marsh

After doing a lot of research on planning consultants, we felt Richard Cosker and his team were best placed to help us achieve planning permission for our new build house.

It was a complicated application as the land was classed as agricultural with a Boarding Cattery business running on the site too.

Richard and Jenny are so knowledgeable and professional, and the planning statement they submitted left little room for the council to argue a negative outcome! We were granted outline planning permission for a 3 bedroom house, followed a few months later by full planning permission for our dream house.

We cannot recommend this company enough, very happy clients, thank you!

Peter and Claire Townsend, Steeple Ashton

We can unreservedly recommend RCC Town Planning Consultancy - Richard and Vicky were extremely professional and efficient at all times and worked hard to achieve an exceptional result for us.

Revd David Gray, Superintendent Minister North Wiltshire Methodist Circuit

We have valued the expertise of Richard Cosker and his team in helping us obtain planning permission on a redundant chapel, but at the same time there was recognition of the sensitivity needed for this project

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