The Town Planner

01/10/2024

🐾Happy Black Dog Day from our Canine Executive Officer (CEO)! 🐾

30/07/2024

Sound on 🔉….Could you keep the noise down….some of us are working!!! 🤣

17/07/2024

How do we know we do a great job?

💐and 🍾 and very happy clients!

A client we helped with their short term let hand delivered these gifts to us this week because….

“You’ve gone so far above-and-beyond”

That’s what we deliver - a personalised and bespoke planning service to all our clients. A service prepared by a fully qualified and experienced Chartered Town Planner who cares about clients and wants to win! 🏆

Planning decisions are statutorily required to be made based on the individual merits of each proposal using an assessment against planning policy.

That’s why every case we prepare starts from scratch and is based upon the specific details and circumstances of our client’s proposals. Our work is not standardised and just churned out.

We carry out up to date research and dig deep to gain all the facts that will help our clients. We look at cases from every potential angle to find solutions.

We carry out a comprehensive assessment against all planning policies to demonstrate the proposals are approvable.

All this extensive work is is carried out on every single case because it gives our clients the best chance of success with planning.

If you want that best chance….

👉 Contact us on [email protected] or on 01479872953.

02/07/2024

🚙 Site visits today 🚙

Today’s site visit took us into the heart of the Cairngorms ⛰…in the rain 🌧

Collected lots of useful information to support our clients’ case.📷✍️🏠

We stopped off at The Watchers, a contemporary art installation on our return to view the unique natural landscape (though lacking in trees!🌲) and the historic Corgarff Castle🏰, a scheduled ancient monument (well worth a visit Historic Scotland)

25/06/2024

What can TheTownPlanner Ltd do to help you?

Deliver Solutions!

👉We provide professional town planning services to individuals, communities, businesses, architects and developers.

👉We deal with all types and scales of development (eg changes of use, extensions, new houses, other buildings and structures) within all sectors (eg householder, residential, commercial, retail, business, leisure, food & tourism)

👉We deal with: all types of planning: applications, certificates of lawfulness, appeals, enforcement and making objections.

👉We prepare preapplication submissions and carry out feasibility assessments

👉We prepare planning supporting statements for planning applications

👉We survey and prepare floor plans for changes of use applications and certificates of lawfulness (including short term lets)

If it needs planning permission (or if you need to know whether it does or not)….we can help you!

Our passion is helping people to navigate through the planning process, whether you want or don’t want a development to happen.

You can find out more about who we (Jane, Peter & Kes) are from our previous fb posts throughout June.

Please get in touch at [email protected] or call 01479 872953



Photos (c) TheTownPlanner Ltd

19/06/2024

Fun Facts Part 3….

🐾Its the turn of the Top Dog aka Kes, our Chief Canine Officer (CEO) 🐾

Kes is the senior partner of TheTownPlanner Ltd. He’s an old dog who loves learning new tricks about town planning.

Favourite Films - Kes has found it difficult to choose but his Top 3 are:
A Dog’s Journey, A Dog’s Purpose and Haatchi (probably because other than Haatchi, the main character is Richard Gere, one of Jane’s favourite actors)

Favourite Music - Who Let the Dogs Out (of course 😃) and Puppy Love (you’ll never guess who Jane’s teen idol was?!)

Favourite TV Programmes - The Dogs House and For The Love Of Dogs - Kes is a rescue and loves seeing other dogs finding their forever homes. He misses Paul O’Grady 😥

Favourite Hobbies - Playing with noisy toys, who all have names (Giraffy, Ducky, Poley….), going for walkies and doing anything that involves getting treats

Roles at TheTownPlanner Ltd - Due to his good looks, Kes’ main role is providing content for marketing. Kes also keeps Jane and Peter in check and letting them know when its time for a break (for food and treats!) He provides much needed therapy to minimise the presssures of dealing with planning and bureaucracy.

That’s all the fun facts about the personnel (and dognel) 🐾

Watch this space for our next post about TheTownPlanner Ltd….



Photos are (c)TheTownPlanner Ltd

11/06/2024

Fun Facts about TheTownPlanner Part 2

Introducing Peter….

Peter is in charge of everything non-planning.

Favourite Films - Saving Private Ryan (on full volume!) and all the black & white classics. 🎬📽

Favourite Music - The Beatles, The Jam, and Queen - all seen in concert…well maybe not THE Beatles, but Paul McCartney several times as well as many Beatles tribute bands….that must count? 😀. Peter also ‘met’ Yoko Ono in New York 🗽whilst on his honeymoon with Jane

Favourite TV Programmes - After Life and Dr Who….and Blue Peter when he was younger, which has led to the collection of a full set of Blue Peter Annuals.

Favourite Hobbies - Long distance running 🏃🏻 Peter has run several marathons (PB under 4 hours), including the London Marathon twice. He loves wandering around graveyards 🪦searching for ancestors. Peter also loves restoring gramophones and old valve radios 📻in his Man Shed and is now reliving his childhood by making airfix models. ✈️ Oh…he is also a life long supporter of West Ham ⚒️

Roles at TheTownPlanner Ltd - Although Jane hates to admit it, Peter provides the necessary commonsense and solutions to most of the problems that arise (after all, as he keeps telling Jane, he has a 1st Class Honours Degree! 👨🏻‍🎓) Peter is Mr Proofreader of all the planning statements that Jane ‘tappety taps’ on the computer. Most importantly he surveys and prepares floor plans. Peter also provides support during site visits, and deals with the back office stuff.

Photographs (c) TheTownplanner Ltd

07/06/2024

Fun Facts about TheTownPlanner…

Introducing Jane

Jane is the town planning geek and super sleuth! 🕵️🔍

Favourite Films (no idea why there are no films about town planners! 😀) - A Wonderful Life

Favourite Music (very eclectic including the Osmonds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Proclaimers. Hazel O’Connor and ACDC - Jane has seen them all in concert!) - The Planners Dream Gone Wrong byThe Jam

Favourite TV Programmes - Who Do You Think You Are

Favourite Hobbies - Using her detective skills to track down her ancestors but also researching building histories. Jane loves church architecture and wandering around old buildings

Favourite Building - Anything by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Roles at TheTownPlanner Ltd - according to Peter, all Jane does is ‘tappety-tap’ on the computer most days (writing reports), unless she is out and about on site visits meeting clients and gathering evidence.

Watch this space - next week we will introduce Peter.



Photographs (c)TheTownPlanner Ltd

05/06/2024

Happy dance time!

Success in Edinburgh at Local Review Body! Planning permission granted for use of a flat as a short term let.

My client Nick’s testimonial….and this was before we won the case for him….😊

“Jane ….was extremely friendly and efficient and spent time with me explaining how she could assist me with my planning applicationfor short term lettings…She wrote the strongest of applications in an extremely tight time frame. Nothing was too much trouble and she really grasped the brief. Totally professional.
Previously I was chair of my local councils town planning committee and I have seen hundreds if not thousands of planning applications, and can say this was the best I have ever seen”

If you need a Chartered town planning professional to help you with your short term let anywhere in Scotland contact us on [email protected]

30/05/2024

PEOPLE BUY PEOPLE

Behind every independent business is a team of humans (and sometimes dogs 🐾).

Its nearly six years since we set up our award-winning chartered town planning consultancy, so we thought we’d share a few fun facts about the team here at TheTownPlanner HQ.

Watch this space…..



People Buy People Photo (c)TheTownPlanner Ltd

04/04/2024

Reliable 💙 Professional 💙 Local

Professional Cleaning services in and around Grantown on Spey.

Residential 💙 Commercial 💙 Holiday Properties

28/03/2024

🦴🎂🐾TheTownPlanner Ltd’s CEO (Canine Executive Officer) celebrating his 11th birthday this week 🎂🐾🦴

27/03/2024

🚂 I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with the McCallum family The Wee Choo-Choo on this innovative project.
It’s fantastic to finally see the wee choo choo has arrived in Pitlochry and getting ready to open its doors for a unique dining experience. 🚂

I would like to thank the community for being patient with us today.

The Wee Choo-Choo is now on its tracks and the car park is opened.

I still have a small number of bays rented for tradesmen over the next few days to complete the project.

I would also like to thank Reid Freight Services Studio East Architects W A McGarrie & Son Ltd WG Tanker The Town Planner HSCS (Scotland) Ltd & H Construction (Scotland) Ltd, Perth & Kinross council officers for their support today and Police Scotland for providing an es**rt today.

I want to thank particularly the two best Perth & Kinross traffic officers in the whole dam world!

🚂Any questions feel free to email me on [email protected]

Thank You

Mia McCallum

18/03/2024

Took time out today to celebrate 6 years since we formed our successful award winning company - TheTownPlanner Ltd. 🎉🎂🍾

12/03/2024

Short Term Let Property - Do you own one or are you proposing one in Badenoch & Strathspey?

Are YOU ready for the planning changes?

TheTownPlanner can help You!

04/03/2024

🎥 On the day the Short Term Let Control Area is designated in the Badenoch & Strathspey ward area, TheTownPlanner is interviewed for STV news 📺

01/02/2024

Local resident makes contact to seek help with planning application for secret hideaway 🙈 🤣 🍌

27/01/2024

What a lovely surprise!

Flowers and a bottle of bubbly from another happy client after winning an appeal for them.