Harwood Savin provided strategic and planning application advice to Ashford College (part of the Hadlow College Group and formerly K College) in respect of campuses in Ashford and Folkestone since 2010
Harwood Savin has recently been successful in securing planning permission for an "air-space" scheme of six additional storeys on top of the existing two storey Wilko retail unit in the centre of Bognor Regis.
Harwood Savin advised the former K College (now Ashford College) on the renewal of outline planning permission for up to 241 residential units on the College’s existing campus, which helped to facilitate the development of the College’s new campus in Ashford Town Centre at Elwick Road.
Harwood Savin successfully secured a -hybrid- planning permission for 12,700 sqm new building Further Education College, 442 Student Residential Units, and up to 125 residential apartments in Central Brighton for City College Brighton and Hove (Now Greater Brighton Metropolitan College).
Harwood Savin was successful in securing planning permission for a replacement dwelling in the countryside. Our client approached us having acquired a property which was under construction but which had not been built in accordance with the approved and historic planning permission.
Harwood Savin was instructed by a client to advise on a number of matters relating to a very prominent Grade II listed building on a main shopping in this popular seaside town.
Harwood Savin was instructed by a client to advise on a number of matters relating to a very prominent Grade II listed building on a main shopping area in this popular seaside town. The lower ground floor comprised a retail unit, somewhat secondary in nature due to its unusual frontage, despite being in the defined primary shopping frontage. Our client wished to convert the lower ground floor to residential, akin to the upper floors, but contrary to presiding policy.
We worked closely with the Council’s conservation officer to develop a detailed heritage justification to over-ride the retail policy position, arguing that the lower ground floor was once linked to the upper floors, and investigations within the building revealed the position of a staircase to this effect. We also engaged closely with the very influential and well informed town and district Councillors in advance of the consideration of the application by the Town Council and District Council, to secure favourable decisions.