Planning Advice

Triformis offers a full range of town planning services. We provide expert planning advice to landowners, developers and private individuals.

We have a good working understanding of the current planning system and the relationships between the wider spatial planning context, the National Planning Policy Framework, Local Development Framework and associated plans and strategies including the Neighbourhood Planning General (2012) Regulations. We understand and support the use of neighbourhood planning within the context of the wider planning system, including the use of Neighbourhood Development Orders and Community Right to Build Orders.

Where possible we endeavour to bring different sets of stakeholders together in projects, facilitating them to understand each others’ constraints and challenges with a view to reducing the confrontation and contention that is common in planning and development.

We continue to develop our understanding of collaborative planning theory and seek to embed this knowledge and understanding into practice. Planning theory suggests that collaborative planning can lead to collectively owned sustainable solutions, but to be effective it is necessary to consider the role the planning professional plays in the collaborative process. In this respect we are learning more about boundary spanning, and how if we possess the skills and behaviours required of boundary spanners we may be better able to facilitate and support collaborative planning.