Certificates of Lawfulness
Certificates of Lawfulness are not compulsory, but are recommended if you want to be certain that an existing building or use of a building is legal in planning terms, or that your proposal does not require planning permission.
Certificates for existing uses or development are useful if you are hoping to undertake development on an existing developed site, but where there is no planning history, or the existing development was undertaken without the required planning permission. Certificates for proposed uses or development are used where certainty is required that a particular use or operational development is either permitted development or not development at all.
Our team of RTPI accredited planners are experienced in dealing with both types of application.