Legal planning service for outdoor areas and planned alfresco eating areas.

Free Planning Service

Through many years experience, Breezefree have become adept at dealing with planning departments - and now provide planning services free of charge, to allow you to get on with your business.

What we'll do & what it'll cost you?

We will handle your planning submission and application - including preparation of plans and drawings - and only ask that you pay the cost of the application and any additional legal costs. We will of course, advise you of those costs beforehand.

Our only conditions are, you pay a deposit on the order, which we will refund should the application fail, and we reserve the right to refuse jobs where permission is unlikely to be granted.

Call or contact us and we’ll talk about it in more detail..

Legal & Planning

If like many of our valued customers have, you are:

Having trouble understanding what you're allowed to do?
Confused by Regional Planning laws and landlords policies?

Then we're here to help and have put together this short guide.

Legal & Planning - Some basic guidelines*

Any 'development' requires Planning Permission from the regional planning authority.
A 'development' would be considered as a permanent fixture to, under, over and onto land.
All permanent ground fixtures or electrical cables would usually be classified as a 'development'.
Planning Permission may be required even if the land is private, particularly if the 'development' is overlooked by neighbours - to assess impact upon the area.
Planning Permission is usually required when the 'development' alters the external appearance of a property. Installation of awnings would usually require planning permission.

Advertising consent

Advertising that is fixed permanently and stands more than 1m high will require Advertising Consent. Advertising that is portable and removable should not require Advertising Consent. Printed awnings that are retractable may not require advertising consent - but this varies greatly depending on the regional planning authority.

Smoking Legislation

The law on what constitutes a legal smoking shelter is open to interpretation throughout the varying regional planning departments.

As an approximate guide - a smoking shelter must be 1/2 open at the sides. Breezefree have as much experience as it is possible to have in this area and will advise in more detail where required.

NOTE: Equipment that is fully portable would not normally require Planning Permission. Such equipment that is placed outside the owner's land or curtilage (e.g. on public highway) would require Planning Permission and an Street Cafe/Outdoor Seating/Table & Chair Licence.

*Please note: The points above are only a rough guideline to planning applications. We strongly advise that you seek professional advice from either Breezefree or another legal agency before submitting any planning documents.