Bio
Ollie is a Planning & Environment Senior Associate.
A Chartered Town Planner (Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute), Ollie advises on a range of projects, advising clients on the best way to progress their development proposals through the planning system, acting on their behalf to progress their plans, and providing support for large and complex development projects.
Ollie’s expertise spans pre-application assessment, certificate of lawfulness applications and advice to managing and delivering planning applications and appeals for housebuilders, landowners and private individuals.
He also has expertise in planning appeals (including written representations, hearings, and public inquiries) alongside providing evidence for both planning and enforcement matters.
Ollie also regularly undertakes due diligence to advise on planning matters to assist on the sale, purchasing, redevelopment and re-financing of land and property.
Examples of Ollie’s work include:
- Securing full planning permission for a Special Educational Needs (SEN) teaching building on an existing sports field, despite a standing objection from Sports England and a referral to the Secretary of State.
- Successfully securing retrospective planning permission for approximately £2 million of unauthorised work which had been carried out within the grounds of a private estate.
- Devising and implementing a strategy on behalf of a local authority to assess and make recommendations more than 180 local authority-owned sites across 11 towns.
- Advising on a number of pre-commencement conditions which had not been discharged prior to the construction of a £6 million waste transfer facility.
- Successfully appealing against the refusal of planning permission for the change-of-use of an existing public house into 47 student flats.
- Obtaining various planning permissions on behalf of a major food processor to enhance the size and quality of their premises across a number of their sites in England and Wales.