RTPI Chartered Planning Support For Architectural Practices Nationwide

Your Planning Partner. You Keep Designing.

Cedar Planning works alongside architects throughout England, providing clear planning advice, supporting documents and end-to-end application management when you need it.

Planning Advice  •  Applications  •  Appeals
125+
Local Planning Authorities worked across
MRTPI
Chartered town planning expertise
Fixed Fee
Clear costs agreed before work begins
England
National planning consultancy support
A Planning Partner for Architects

Keep Planning Expertise in Your Team — Without Building an In-House Planning Department

Planning can quickly consume design time. Policy research, validation requirements, supporting reports, officer discussions and planning conditions all compete for the time you would rather spend progressing projects and looking after clients.

Cedar Planning works alongside your practice as a specialist planning resource. We can provide one-off support when a project needs it, manage an application from start to finish, or provide ongoing retained support across your wider workload.

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Where Cedar Planning fits into your workflow

Feasibility

Understand planning constraints and opportunities before significant design time is committed.

Design Development

Test emerging proposals against policy and identify likely planning issues while designs can still respond.

Submission

Planning Statements, Design & Access Statements and other supporting planning documents.

Determination & Beyond

Officer negotiations, amendments, planning strategy and appeal advice where required.

Flexible Planning Support

Three Ways We Can Work With Your Practice

Start with the level of support you need today. You can bring us into individual projects or use Cedar Planning as a regular extension of your team.

01 / DOCUMENT SUPPORT

We Prepare the Planning Documents

You retain control of the application and architectural relationship. We produce the specialist planning material needed to support it.

  • Planning Statements
  • Design & Access Statements
  • Heritage and policy assessments
  • Sequential Tests and specialist planning reports
Planning document support
02 / STRATEGIC INPUT

We Review the Scheme Before Submission

Get planning input during feasibility or design development so that policy issues can be identified while there is still time to respond.

  • Site feasibility assessments
  • Local and national policy review
  • Design and planning compliance review
  • Pre-application strategy
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03 / FULL PLANNING SUPPORT

We Manage the Planning Process

Hand the planning work to Cedar Planning while you retain control of the design and client relationship.

  • Planning strategy and submission
  • Supporting planning documents
  • Validation and officer correspondence
  • Negotiation through to decision
Planning application management
Ongoing Planning Support

Need a Planner Available Across Your Project Pipeline?

For practices that need planning input more regularly, Cedar Planning can provide retained consultancy support — giving your team access to planning expertise without the cost or commitment of recruiting an in-house planner.

Ideal for practices needing
  • Regular planning reviews across multiple live projects
  • Quick access to planning advice during design development
  • Supporting documents without repeatedly sourcing consultants
  • A consistent planning contact who understands your practice
  • Flexible additional capacity when workloads increase
Simple to Work Together

Planning Support Without Adding Complexity to Your Practice

STEP 01

Send Us the Project

Share the address, drawings and a short explanation of the support you need.

STEP 02

We Review the Brief

We identify the planning work required and confirm the scope before you commit.

STEP 03

Clear Fixed-Fee Quote

You receive a clear scope and fee with no hidden additions to the agreed work.

STEP 04

We Get to Work

Cedar Planning integrates into the project and keeps the planning side moving.

Need Reliable Planning Support for Your Practice?

Tell us what you are working on and where you need support. We will provide clear, practical advice on how Cedar Planning can fit into your project or wider workflow.

We respond to enquiries within 1 working day  •  No-obligation initial discussion  •  Fixed-fee quotations

Ready to free yourself from planning paperwork?

Don't let the ever increasing complexities of the UK planning system get in the way of your top-quality designs. Partner with Cedar Planning for expert, tailored planning support that helps you secure successful outcomes.

Fill out the form below, or email info@cedarplanning.co.uk for a no-obligation, fixed fee quote.