Fast Turnaround
We prioritise prompt reviews, clear advice and efficient application preparation so planning does not become the slowest part of your customer journey.
Outsourced Planning Support for Your Business
Planning Consultancy for Annexe & Garden Room Companies Fast. Reliable. Commercially Focused.
Cedar Planning provides outsourced planning consultancy support to residential annexe companies, granny annexe and granny flat providers, garden room businesses, modular building suppliers and outbuilding specialists across England.
RTPI Chartered Town Planner
Rapid turnaround
Fixed-fee or ongoing support
Nationwide coverage
Residential Annexe
Garden Office
Fast Response
Planning input that keeps your sales and delivery pipeline moving.
White-Label Friendly
We can work directly with your team or support individual customers.
Flexible Capacity
One-off cases, overflow work or ongoing outsourced planning support.
England-Wide
Experience working across a wide range of Local Planning Authorities.
Built for Growing Providers
A planning partner that understands commercial delivery.
Planning delays can hold up orders, frustrate customers and absorb time from your sales and design teams. Our role is to give you clear planning advice quickly, identify the right route and manage the planning work efficiently.
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Qualify enquiries earlier
Get an early view on planning risk before your team commits significant design time or the customer places an order.
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Protect your customer experience
Give customers a professional planning route rather than leaving them to navigate applications, Certificates or refusals themselves.
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Add capacity without recruitment
Use Cedar Planning when workloads increase without the fixed cost and management burden of an additional in-house planner.
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Reduce avoidable planning delays
Early identification of curtilage, Green Belt, heritage, neighbour amenity and ancillary-use issues can prevent avoidable problems later.
The Projects We Understand
Residential Annexes
Granny Annexes & Granny Flats
Garden Offices
Garden Rooms
Modular Buildings & Outbuildings
Specialist support across the residential garden-building market.
We can support planning work for a wide range of products and residential accommodation types, whether your business delivers a standardised range or fully bespoke projects.
Residential Annexes
Granny Annexes & Granny Flats
Garden Offices
Garden Rooms
Modular Buildings & Outbuildings
Planning Services for Providers
From first enquiry to final planning decision.
Use us for a single difficult site or as an ongoing extension of your team. We can tailor the scope around how your business already works.
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Desktop Planning Reviews
Rapid early-stage assessment of planning route, curtilage, Green Belt, heritage, Article 4 directions, neighbour impacts and other material constraints.
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Planning Applications
Preparation and management of planning applications for residential annexes, granny flats, garden rooms, outbuildings and ancillary accommodation.
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Lawful Development Certificates
Advice and submissions where permitted development or an ancillary-use position may provide a more appropriate route than a planning application.
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Planning Statements
Clear planning justification addressing local policy, design, amenity, ancillary occupation and the relationship between the proposed building and host dwelling.
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Planning Appeals
Appeal advice and preparation following refusals, including analysis of the Council's refusal reasons and relevant planning policy or appeal decisions.
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Officer Liaison & Application Management
Monitoring, Council liaison, responses to officer queries and practical advice on amendments through the determination period.
Why Cedar Planning
Fast enough for sales. Robust enough for planning.
A planning partner needs to understand that your customer is waiting, your installation programme matters and every unnecessary delay affects the wider commercial relationship.
Sector-Relevant Advice
We understand the planning distinction between incidental outbuildings, ancillary accommodation and proposals capable of becoming separate dwellings.
Scalable Support
Increase or reduce planning capacity as your enquiry volume changes, without recruiting, training or carrying permanent overhead.
A Simple Working Relationship
Planning support that fits into your existing process.
We can adapt the workflow to your CRM, sales team, designers and customer handover process rather than forcing you into a rigid consultancy model.
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Send the Enquiry
Your team sends us the address, proposal details and available drawings or product information.
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Planning Review
We assess constraints and confirm the likely route, risks, required information and scope.
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Prepare & Submit
We prepare the planning material, coordinate the application package and manage submission.
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Manage to Decision
We monitor progress, deal with officer queries and keep your team informed through determination.
Flexible Commercial Support
Ad Hoc
Growth Support
Ongoing Partnership
Use Cedar Planning in the way that suits your business.
One-Off Projects
Send us individual sites when a customer needs planning support or when a case falls outside your team's usual experience.
Overflow Planning Capacity
Use Cedar when enquiry or application volumes increase and your existing team needs reliable external capacity.
Retained Planning Support
Agree a regular level of planning consultancy support for businesses that want a dependable external planner available to their team.
About Cedar Planning
Planning support led by a Chartered Town Planner.
Cedar Planning is an independent planning consultancy led by Dan Malloy MRTPI. We provide commercially focused planning advice to businesses, developers, architects and homeowners across England.
With more than ten years' experience across public and private sector planning, Cedar Planning understands both how Local Planning Authorities assess applications and the commercial pressure businesses face when customers are waiting for answers.
For annexe and garden room providers, that means practical planning advice delivered as part of your wider customer journey — not planning theory in isolation.
Need a Reliable Planning Partner for Your Customers?
Whether you need help with a difficult enquiry, additional application capacity or ongoing outsourced planning support, Cedar Planning can provide a flexible service around your business.
Get in touch
To discuss how Cedar Planning can provide you with reliable and on-going planning advice use the form below.