FIRST APPRENTICE TO SUPPORT GROWTH

We have appointed our first apprentice as we continue to invest to support clients and expansion ambitions.   Welcome to Charly Wilson (pictured centre), who joins as an apprentice planner based at our Wynyard office. There she will assist director Stephen Litherland and the team with office management and administrative duties as well as working [...]

STAYCATIONS DRIVING £20M REGIONAL LEISURE DEVELOPMENTS

Director Joe Ridgeon believes a farm experience centre and lodge park in County Durham is among proposed new developments driving a ‘buoyant’ regional leisure sector. However, it’s the leisure schemes that are different that work best, contributing significantly towards securing final planning permission. Hedley Planning Services, which is involved in several projects across the [...]

COVID-19 Guidance and procedures

11th May 2020 Re: Covid-19 Guidance and procedures With immediate effect As a responsible employer Hedley Planning Services and Hedley Planning Services Yorkshire has introduced the following procedures with immediate effect: Good Practice -  Please ensure your contact details are up to date so that we are able to contact you during work hours or [...]

AMELIA ONBOARD AS NEW PLANNER

Welcome to Amelia Robson, who has joined as a planner at Hedley Planning Services’ Hexham office. The move will see her helping the senior team in preparing planning applications and supporting planning statements for residential and commercial clients across the region. Amelia is a qualified Planner who graduated from Newcastle University in 2017 and [...]

PLANNING A RESIDENTIAL INHERITANCE

Director Joe Ridgeon says farmers and landowners must urgently consider their future if they are to secure their children’s and grandchildren’s inheritance. So, what can be done to improve the future prospects for current and future generations in an agriculture sector at a crossroads? The key for landowners is thinking longer term. Those who [...]

STEPHEN CALLS ON NEW PM FOR PLANNING STABILITY

Stephen Litherland, director of Hedley Planning Services' Teesside office, is calling for planning stability from the new Prime Minister. He wants Mr Johnson to act quickly and resist more changes to an already ‘overstretched and under-resourced’ planning system. His comments come in the light of a recent Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report, which warned [...]

NURTURING NEW TALENT

Welcome to Alex Franklin, who has joined as a planner at Hedley Planning Services' Hexham office. The move will see him helping the senior team in preparing planning applications and supporting planning statements for residential and commercial clients across the region. A student member of the RTPI studying for a Masters in Urban Planning [...]

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