West Waddy ADP oxford

Abingdon School has worked successfully with West Waddy over many decades. Most recently we are working together on substantial development plans for Abingdon Prep School and have now cleared planning consent and look forward to completing the project successfully!

West Waddy have acted most admirably for various mutual clients with focussed needs surrounding conservation and ecology planning, as well as listed building planning, moving forward from day 1 to grant of planning permission in both a timely manner and also a very careful and professional manner, always achieving their initial goal; Planning permission for the client. A super team, and a pleasure to work with, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them in the future.

Very professional and extremely knowledgeable in planning matters won an appeal for me amazing result could not praise them enough.

West Waddy have provided an excellent professional service in helping work out Listed Building problems on the sale of my house. In addition to being deeply knowledgeable on historic buildings they were always quick to act under time pressure.

West Waddy ADP were engaged by the Ernest Cook Trust to obtain planning consent for a barn conversion on its Boarstall Estate in Buckinghamshire. It was not the easiest of tasks and after consultation, it was agreed to go for a full planning application rather than the route of a class Q Permitted Development as, should it be successful, a more sensitive (and marketable) result would be achieved . West Waddy produced a full Planning Feasibility Assessment which included drawings of the proposed conversion and how it would 'sit' within the site, which was approved. Detailed surveys were then commissioned and undertaken, including a speed survey of the lane onto which the building fronted. This was required following concerns about visibility splays and access issues raised by the Highway Authority, Buckinghamshire Country Council, as the lane was not subject to any speed restriction. In the initial stages the Planning Authority was also nervous of the proposal 'detracting from the agrarian character of the site'. However, the West Waddy team managed the process of preparing and submitting an acceptable planning application with great skill and tenacity which has resulted in a full planning consent for the conversion of the barn into a very attractive 3-bedroomed residence. This is an excellent result for the Trust.