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In this episode, Paul answers questions on property development planning. From easier ways to get planning approved to why collaboration is key in planning development, Paul shares his thoughts and knowledge to help guide listeners in difficult planning situations.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• To improve things for everyone in property development, we need to start working more collaboratively with local authority planning departments
• Tension often builds between developers and councils because of the time and money pressures both must contend with.
• Ensure you know all of the planning policies and related regulations, you can then reverse engineer what needs to be designed to meet the rules.
• It pays to be as prepared as possible for any question at the planning stage, to prevent issues further down the line in the planning process.
• Balancing conflicting policies and knowing what weight to apply to each area is a learned skill specific to the developer and the area they are working in.
• You can make decisions based on research and analysis, having a good team and experience helps but there is still always a risk due to the amount of unknowns in planning.

BEST MOMENTS

“Local authorities are under massive pressure themselves are severely under-resourced”

“We need the very best professional teams”

VALUABLE RESOURCES

ABOUT THE HOST 

Paul Higgs is a Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor with 40+ years' experience in land, planning and development and a 100% success track-record in winning planning consents.

Paul undertook his first refurb project when he was just 17 and then worked his way up from labouring on building sites to becoming Head of Land for renowned plc housebuilder, Barratt Developments. He managed to escape the corporate world in 2002 to set up what is now a multimillion-pound award-winning property development company, Millbank Group.  

In 2013 Paul founded the Millbank Land Academy, the UK’s first training company dedicated to property development, to teach established and aspiring developers the insider secrets the big housebuilders don’t want you to know! 

Paul is also a founding investor and former board director of the industry-leading PropTech Co, LandTech, and has lectured on Advanced Development Valuations on the MSc Property Development at London South Bank University.

CONTACT METHOD

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-higgs/?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2F&originalSubdomain=uk

Millbank Land Academy: https://www.millbanklandacademy.co.uk