Planning & Development
Our planners understand the need to maximise the development potential of their clients’ commercial property assets.
Whatever the scale of your project, we can help throughout the planning process, dealing with:
• Site appraisals
• Planning applications
• Planning appeals
• Local Development Framework site representations
• Change of use applications
• The promotion of large-scale strategic employment sites
Read more about our planning services.

Steven SmallmanMRICS, MRTPI
Head of Planning Division
Steven is a Partner, head of the firm's Planning Division and Sutton Griffin's Planning Director. He has over 30 years experience advising private and public sector clients about how best to reali...
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Steven is a Partner, head of the firm's Planning Division and Sutton Griffin's Planning Director. He has over 30 years experience advising private and public sector clients about how best to realise the development potential of their property assets. As a chartered surveyor and chartered town planner he is able to provide commercially astute planning and development advice that adds significant value to projects ranging from mixed use redevelopment schemes to strategic greenfield allocations. Based in Newbury, Steven leads Carter Jonas' Planning Teams across the country. A keen sailor, cyclist and walker, Steven says that he is at his happiest when the wind in his face and there's no deadline!
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Chris HaworthMRICS
Head of Commercial Division
Chris is a Partner and head of the firm's Commercial Division. Based in London, he specialises in all aspects of the development process from site appraisal and acquisition through funding and de...
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Chris is a Partner and head of the firm's Commercial Division. Based in London, he specialises in all aspects of the development process from site appraisal and acquisition through funding and development management. Chris also advises on strategic planning and development issues. He is a keen photographer having been semi-professional for a while some years ago and is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society. In search of his favourite subject – seabirds – he has travelled to various parts of the world, including The Falklands and South Georgia in the Antarctic, where he drank a tot of rum over Shackleton’s grave, sat beside a wandering albatross on its nest and walked amongst 100,000 king penguins.
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Case Study

The Planning Division secured permission for 230 new homes in Devizes...
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