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Your Experts in Rural Planning Solutions

At The Rural Planning Practice, we are a team of chartered members of the RTPI and RICS, dedicated to providing bespoke and professional services for all your rural planning needs.

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Help and Advice For Your Rural Planning Project

At The Rural Planning Practice, we offer a wide range of professional services tailored to meet your rural planning requirements. Our team of experts provides site assessments, site promotion, planning applications, pre-purchase guidance, permitted development advice, and much more.

Key Services

Site Assessments
Site Promotion
Planning Applications
Equestrian Developments
Residential & Commercial
Rural Business Development
Listed Buildings
Certificates of Lawfulness
Appeals
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Why Choose The Rural Planning Practice?

Discover the advantages of choosing The Rural Planning Practice. With our bespoke and professional service, we provide expert guidance on a wide range of rural planning matters.

Professional & Experienced

We have decades of combined experience in providing creative solutions to planning projects and problems.

Chartered & Certified

We have staff that are members of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Trained & Qualified

Our team also have graduate/post graduate qualifications in Heritage, Conservation, Architecture and Archaeology.

Honest & Principled

We pride ourselves in integrity and honesty which is what gives our clients the confidence to work with us.

Proactive & Practical

Planning can be like a game of chess, always thinking a few moves ahead to get to the desired outcome. We relish the unusual and taxing cases that require an imaginative approach.

Well Connected

We have an established network of specialists we work with including Landscape Architects, Designers, Ecologist and Highways Experts.

Rural Planning

Case Studies

Examples of how we’ve recently helped clients with rural planning projects

Planning

Residential

Planning Permission Granted for Pool House & Orangery Building

Maidstone Borough Council
October 2024

Planning

Residential

Planning Permission Granted to Extend a Cottage in the Kent Downs National Landscape and Area of Special Landscape Character

Canterbury City Council
October 2024

Planning

Agriculture

Successful Application for the removal of a Section 106 Agreement

Wealden District Council
September 2024
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From Our Clients

Testimonials

Thank you for all the help and knowledge you were able to provide – we really appreciate it and wouldn’t have been able to do it without you (and all the RPP team)!

Miss B. Brentford

We used The RPP in Spring 2022 to gain planning on a holiday letting property. I am very pleased that we decided to use The RPP as it was essential for our business to gain this permission.

Waterside Ltd.

The whole package of planning, including managing other specialists, ensured complete alignment at all times. It was a great pleasure for me that RPP took this lead and secured our planning approval.

Little Quarry Glamping

RPP provide a great service. They are professional and knowledgeable, and they achieved great results for us on three separate occasions. I wholeheartedly recommend them.

Mr. B

Huge thanks to The Rural Planning Practice, your help has been very much appreciated. The resulting comments in the Decision Notice do feel considerably more proportionate than the initial feedback from the planning officer to the first application.

Mrs. R

I have used The Rural Planning Practice for many years. They are efficient, knowledgeable and always get the end result that we require. I would recommend for advice and for obtaining planning permissions.

Hawkins & Turner Ltd

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Rural Planning News and Insights

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From Grey Belt to Green Opportunities: Key Takeaways from 2024 in Rural Planning

From Grey Belt to Green Opportunities: Key Takeaways from 2024 in Rural Planning

As the year comes to an end and we reflect on the changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), including the much-anticipated introduction of the ‘Grey Belt’, we have taken a moment to review 2024 and the challenges and successes it brought.
20 December 2024
Update from Ashford Borough Council

Update from Ashford Borough Council

31 July 2024
Rother District Council’s draft Local Plan

Rother District Council’s draft Local Plan

The draft local plan imposes stricter environmental and sustainability requirements.
13th June 2024

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