Planning

Understand the planning landscape surrounding a property

When carrying out due diligence ahead of a property transaction, helping your client to understand the upcoming changes to the area surrounding their future home can be a shrewd consideration, helping to ensure that their investment delivers upon expectations.

At first glance, a prospective home can deliver everything your client is looking for. Be that scope for a home office, green space for walks and views, a garden in which to enjoy socialising with friends, or room to grow the family. However, it is important to understand what changes are planned for the local area and community in which they are planning to live, and how this may impact them and their expectations for their new home.

Planning Search Reports

Increasingly, conveyancers are seeking to educate their clients about the risks and impacts of proposed developments near to their prospective property, by including a planning search within the standard suite of searches which they provide to clients.

The latest Planning search reports from FCI, Premium Plus Planning and FCI Planning, can help conveyancers to deliver the best advice and a thorough due diligence service to clients, by providing all the relevant information required to enable an informed decision to be made.

Solutions

Get the Full Picture on Planning

Complete with FCICapture and Dynamic Search Technology, our intuitive Planning range, incorporating FCI Planning and Premium Plus Planning enables conveyancers and homebuyers to gain a swift appreciation of the planning landscape in relation to a property and its location.

The reports present the planning and development activity which is proposed or currently taking place, and that which has occurred over the past 10 years, alongside any constraints or considerations for the homebuyer.

 

Our reports

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Our suite of Planning search reports.

FCI Planning Residential

FCI Planning Residential

A dedicated planning search report, complete with FCI Capture and dynamic search technology, providing comprehensive planning information to enable homebuyers to make informed decisions.

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FCI Premium Plus Planning

FCI Premium Plus Planning

Including FCICapture and dynamic search technology, FCI Premium Plus Planning enables conveyancers and homebuyers to gain a swift appreciation of the environmental risks and planning landscape in relation to a property.

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Training & Events

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Check back soon for details of our next event or webinar covering Planning, or contact us to see if we can offer something bespoke to you.

Additional Support

Expert Advice and Support

Our friendly in-house team holds a unique combination of environmental, property and surveying qualifications, including MRICS, CEnv and C.WEM Charterships, as well as professional associations with the Institute for Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), ensuring you can be confident in the advice we offer.

If you have questions about any of our products and services, please do not hesitate to contact the team on: +44 (0)1732 755 180 or email us via the link below.

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Latest News

A Digital Planning System – How Will it Impact Conveyancing?

Having been delayed from last year, the new Planning Bill is due to go before parliament this spring and is set to overhaul the entire planning system for the first time since 1947. The new plans will bring about significant changes, aiming to make the process more accessible and bring…

Is John Lewis Sparking a Retail to Residential Revolution?

UK department store John Lewis has revealed its plans to become a residential landlord by converting its own shop car parks into rental housing across the UK. Over the next decade, approximately 10,000 homes will be built on sites that also include plots above the retailer’s Waitrose supermarkets and next…

Hoo Peninsula: Flyover and Development Plans threaten Rural Views

Hundreds of residents feel they have been misled over major plans to improve road and rail links in their local area. A major housing development and supporting infrastructure in Medway, Kent includes details of a flyover which would overshadow their homes and disrupt their lives. Homeowners in Wainscott have described…

Planning Searches: Keeping Ahead of Local Neighbourhood Change

With a surge in development activity, and things not set to slow down any time soon, having access to intelligent insight on the planning landscape through intuitive planning searches remains key to helping the purchaser to make an informed decision. Read more in the next article from our Modern Law…

Housing Plan U-turn: Back to Urban Brownfield?

The government’s recently published Housing Plan was built on an algorithm that calculated numbers based on population growth and housing need. It looked to balance demand across the country, helping to “level up” the north and generate construction jobs. All very logical on the surface, but it has fallen at…

Paving Paradise? Large Housing Schemes Eating into Green Belt

Local communities and the planning system frequently make very poor bedfellows. If you asked many in the street about whether there should be more house building to solve the country’s acute housing shortage, the answer would be clearly yes. Asked if that new estate should be built in the open…

Try before you buy

To take advantage of a trial free order of your first environmental report, please complete the enquiry form and we will get back to you as soon as possible. We will need to take more details of the property or site and ask some more questions about your firm and the transaction.

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