Silverback Planning Solutions Ltd.
Your Trusted Chartered Town Planner
Our Values
Professional and Reliable Planning Services
Founded by Mark Turner, a Chartered Town Planner with twenty five years of experience, Silverback Planning Solutions are driven by a commitment to strategic excellence, ensuring every plan is meticulously crafted and executed with precision. We build lasting client-centric partnerships founded on integrity and trust, delivering innovative solutions that drive tangible results. We embrace accountability and demonstrate strength and resilience in navigating complex challenges, all while fostering a culture of collaboration. We believe that by upholding these values, we empower both individuals and organisations to achieve their aspirations with clarity and confidence.
To be the catalyst that unlocks the full potential of sites, guiding clients towards their desired outcomes through expert planning.
To provide comprehensive, tailored planning solutions that deliver exceptional value, ensuring our clients' projects and strategies are executed with precision and efficiency.
Planned perfectly, partnered powerfully.
Who we are
We are the best planning experts.
Developing innovative plans to solve complex challenges for all partners and clients.
Don’t just plan. Lead.
Complex challenges require more than a conventional approach. We dig deep into the details of your project to forge a clear path forward. Silverback builds bold, comprehensive plans that unite all stakeholders and deliver lasting success.
How skilled are we in managing cases?
At Silverback Planning Solutions, we pride ourselves on our exceptional ability to manage cases with a high degree of proficiency and care. Our team possesses a wealth of experience and deep expertise, allowing us to navigate complex situations with precision and efficiency. We are committed to a thorough, methodical approach, ensuring every detail is meticulously addressed from initiation through to resolution. Our clients consistently benefit from our proactive communication, strategic problem-solving, and unwavering dedication to achieving positive outcomes. We don’t just process cases; we strategically manage them to deliver results you can trust.
Our services
Professional and trusted planning services
Some of the projects we've been involved in
We focus on empowering, collaboration and problem solving.
Formal Proceedings
We have great success with appeals in Public Inquiries, Informal Hearings and Written Representations, acting for both Local Authorities and private clients.
We have also regularly given evidence in the Courts, being praised by Justice Ouseley for the manner in which a complex history of over 50 years of planning breaches was explained.
Protection of Tourist Economy
Mark Turner is the only planner in the country to have successfully put forward planning arguments to the Courts to prevent hotels, which were vital to the Council’s tourist economy, being used to house asylum seekers.
This was even more relevant as, only a matter of weeks before, the same Judge had dismissed actions from other Councils who had tried to make the same arguments.
New dwellings in the Green Belt
Instructed after several unsuccessful applications and appeal decisions. Mark put forward a complex argument to demonstrate that the building in question, although dilapidated ,remained in lawful use as a dwelling.
Once this had been established a new scheme was proposed to demolish this building (and the accompanying sheds) and replace it with a contemporary design family home.
The strategy was successful.
Equine Facilities
Representing a veterinary surgeon who wanted to convert and expand existing buildings in the Green Belt to create a Centre of Excellence in terms of equine veterinary care and rehabilitation proved challenging.
A neighbouring property had recently had an application for a fence turned down at appeal because of its impact on the openness of the Green Belt so we knew we had an uphill battle.
A comprehensive assessment and compelling argument was put to the Council resulting in unanimous support from the Planning Committee.
Sometimes its the little things ...
… that cause the most distress. A client had installed a number of very large windows into a refurbished extension on their old, but not Listed, home. Unfortunately the windows had marginally narrower window frames than those that had been approved.
The Planning Authority demanded that the windows were removed or face enforcement action.
A thorough argument based on complex case law was submitted showing that the difference in frame size, and its visibility from public vantage points was so small the Council should accept that it represented a non-material amendment. Eventually the Council agreed and all talk of enforcement action was stopped.
Objecting to planning applications
It is a fact of life that most people do not like change. Sometimes change is inevitable but sometimes it is unacceptable.
The problems arise when people want to object to planning proposals that will affect them but don’t know how. Sometimes its the complexity of the system and others its simply not understanding which effects the planners can take into account and which ones they are not allowed to.
We are very much pro-development, but that’s the right development in the right place. We are often asked to lodge objections on behalf of clients and, so long as they sit comfortably with our professional obligations and judgement we are happy to do so.
Why choose us
Secure your project's future with our planning services
Pragmatic Planners who want to solve problems
Decades working on the public and private sectors at all levels gives a unique perspective of both "side's" needs
It is your project and we will work with you, within the bounds of our professional obligations, to make it happen
We will be concious of cost and affordability every step of the way
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