Service 01
Planning strategy
Which application, in what sequence, on what policy footing — the route through before a single form is filed.
Discuss your site
Refused, stalled or told it can't be done? That's usually where we come in. Nine in ten of our new clients arrive with a scheme that's already been refused or turned away elsewhere.
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of new clients arrive after a refusal or being turned away
Inside view
Our Head of Planning is a former Barnet Council planning & enforcement officer
UK-wide
For developers, landowners and property investors
03Our services
Six ways through a difficult planning problem
Select a service to see what it involves.
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04Why us
Why clients choose Breakthrough
Most planning consultants are set up for volume. We're set up for the difficult ones: refused schemes, unworkable-looking sites and enforcement problems nobody else wants.
Basya Markovits · Head of PlanningWe know how councils decide
Our Head of Planning was a planning and enforcement officer at Barnet Council. We know what officers look for, and what gets them to yes.
One consent
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We see opportunities others miss
Additional development value unlocked on a single 5-bed HMO approval in an Article 4 area — two other firms had turned it down.
New clients
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Specialists in the difficult
Of our new clients come to us after a refusal, or after being told it couldn't be done. Difficult is our normal.
Commercial awareness
Others see unusable space. We see £8,000 a year in rent.
A consent is only worth having if the numbers work. We plan for value and viability, not just approval.
05Featured projects
Difficult sites, delivered
Cases other firms turned down, refusals we overturned, and the consents that paid for themselves many times over.
All case studies
06Reach out
Stuck on a site?
Let's talk it through
Tell us about the site, what you want from it and where it's stuck. We'll tell you, plainly, what's achievable.
