Town Planning

As market responsive planning consultants Wilks Head and Eve are central to the development process issuing high quality, strategic solutions for the full development life-cycle.

We offer progressive consultancy advice, capitalising on companywide strengths in both chartered town planning and surveying to add value to your projects.

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, WH&E are able to transfer savings in ways single disciplinary companies are powerless to enforce; therefore, clients benefit from cost-effective advice.

We rely on bespoke consultancy methods which depend on face to face contact and a personable approach modern day consultancies often forget.

Planning Services

Pre-Planning Feasibility

• Development Option Analysis
• Local Development Plan Monitoring
• Promotion of Sites via Local Development Framework System
• Strategic Planning Reports

Project Management of Applications

• Team Commission and project Management
• Provision of Technical Reports (Design and Access and Marketing Reports)
• Application Submission (Changes of Use; Certificates of Lawfulness; Listed Building and Conservation Area Applications)
• Application Monitoring
• Committee Strategy and Representation
• Negotiation of Section 106’s

Post Project Advice

• Appeal Strategy
• Costs Negotiation
• Discharge of Condition Applications
• Variation of Condition Applications

Core Market Sectors

• Residential
• Mixed-Use
• Commercial
• Entertainment and Leisure
• Community Uses (Hospitals; Churches and Emergency Services)

Contacts

Head of Department
Anna Gavriel BA MA Mphil MRTPI
Email: agavriel@wilks-head.co.uk

Anna Gavriel is the Head of the Planning at Wilks Head and Eve; she joined the company in 2009 having worked for a range of private sector planning and surveying firms.

As a private sector consultant with surveying skills, she adds value by taking a multi-disciplinary approach to problem solving, having trained at University College London (Mphil Town Planning) and Cass Business School (MA Property Valuation and Law).

Her interests lie in the interface between planning policy and land valuation and how the former may be used to optimise project returns, moreover, in the wake of a market orientated planning system she is abreast of how policy frameworks may be used to facilitate project outcomes.

Her competencies include: property market research; housing growth area reports; option appraisal analysis and the project management of planning applications.

Senior Planner
Rudolph Van Wyk MTRP, TRP(SA), MSAPI, MRTPI
Email: rvanwyk@wilks-head.co.uk

Rudolph is a qualified Town Planner with a Masters Degree in Urban Planning. He spent almost 10 years in the private sector in South Africa, practicing in a wide range of planning fields and property development. In 2002 he came to England and gained extensive and diverse experience in the public sector - dealing with major residential and mixed-use developments. Rudolph joined Wilks Head & Eve in July 2007 and is currently involved in all aspects of planning.

Consultant
Raymond Kilsby Dip TP FRTPI
Email: rkilsby@wilks-head.co.uk

Raymond is a fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute and is currently in his 50th year of professional practice. The first 15 years of that experience were with four different local planning authorities, with the whole of the remaining 34 years involving private sector consultancy operating upon a national basis.