Since 2007 APS has specialised in advising public sector clients, delivering training events to assist in achieving quality status, assessing and commenting on planning applications, representing councils at appeals and most significantly in preparing and delivering Neighbourhood Development Plans for a large number of town and parish councils
Since 2014, APS has been retained as a planning consultant for the Warwickshire Association of Local Council’s (WALC) where their membership base has access to its professional services
APS offers expert advice on a wide range planning related topics including:
- Training and development for clerks and councillors
- Protocol and procedural health checks
- Advice on preparation of Standing Orders (planning)
- Advice on interpreting and commenting on planning applications
- Representation at public meetings and forums
- Negotiation and mediation with developers and land owners
- Representing clients at appeals including expert witness at Hearings and Public Inquiries
- Neighbourhood Area applications
- Neighbourhood Development Plan preparation and advice
- Mediation with local planning authorities
- Drone photography
Neighbourhood Planning
Professional Advice
- Project plan and timetabling
- Securing streams of grant funding
- Getting started - terms of reference, logo design, strap lines and vision statement
- Advice on questionnaires, mood cards and general public engagement/consultation
- Technical assessments e.g. Housing and Local Green Space allocations
- Review and reply to consultation responses
- Policy drafting and reasoned justification
- Liaison and mediation with the local planning authority, residents, developers and statutory consultees
- Developing a robust evidence base
- Consultation Statement and Basic Conditions Statement
- Assistance during the Independent Examination
- Legal and general advice throughout
Made Neighbourhood Plans where APS has assisted
Local Planning Authorities
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Warwick District Council
Stratford-on-Avon District Council
Malvern Hills District Council
Societies, Groups & Organisations
Society for Local Council Clerks (SLCC)
Warwickshire County Association for Local Councils
Worcestershire County Association of Local Councils
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Save Our Brine Baths (SOBBS) Droitwich Spa
Claverdon Community Land Trust
Lenches Sports and Recreation Club
Town Councils
Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council
Alcester Town Council
Leamington Spa Town Council
Warwick Town Council
Atherstone Town Council
Southam Town Council
Shipston-on-Stour Town Council
Bewdley Town Council
Droitwich Spa Town Council
Parish Councils
Beaudesert and Henley-in-Arden
Bidford-on-Avon
Meriden
Tanworth-in-Arden
Wolston
Stretton-on-Dunsmore
Napton-on-the-Hill
Old Stratford & Drayton
Snitterfield
Wolvey
Long Itchington
Gaydon
Balsall
Burton Dassett
Wellesbourne
Dorsington
Inkberrow
Ettington
Burton Green
Parish Councils
Wolfhamcote
Combrook
Kineton
Claverdon
Bishops Tachbrook
Over Whitacre
Lighthorne Heath
Wootton Wawen
Harbury
Hampton Lucy
Tidbury Green
Loxley
Nether Heyford
Clifford Chambers
Tysoe
South Lenches
Fenny Compton
Ilmington
Bishops Itchington
Eckington
Parish Councils
Cawston
Newton Regis
Priors Marsden
Chadwick End
Wellesbourne
Moreton Morrell
Great Wolford
Allesley
Berkswell
Broadway
Tredington
Bearley
Grandborough
Studley
Dunchurch
Harvington
Cheswick Green
Hockley Heath
Quinton
Wilmcote
Parish Councils
Marston Sicca
Budbrook
Cleeve Prior
Willoughby
Oxhill
Thurlaston
Long Compton
Nether Whitacre
Old Milverton & Blackdown
Hampton-in-Arden
Bickenhill & Marston Green
Mappleborough Green
Luddington
Barston
Temple Grafton
Seckington & No Mans Heath
Water Orton
