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In
the 14 years since our Planning Law Consultancy was established in 1989,
we have received one request more than any other from clients and
prospective clients
Will
you try to get planning permission for me on NO WIN NO FEE terms
? On
a few occasions, after carefully assessing our prospects of winning the
planning permission required. We have in fact agreed to do that. And,
overall, both we and our clients have been extremely pleased with the
results. They dramatically reduced their financial risk, and we received
a higher fee for winning their planning permission. In
the UK over the past few years, NO
WIN NO FEE contracts have become extremely popular in many areas
of business involving the use of legal expertise especially accident
and injury claims after the concept was initially imported from the
USA where such contracts have long been common practice. But the NO
WIN NO FEE concept has not yet been generally adopted by UK
planning consultants or by others who specialise in winning planning
permission to develop land and buildings. Land
Planning Associates has never adhered to planning consultancy convention
or tradition. We have therefore
decided to make a NO WIN NO FEE service available to any client who
wishes to use it. THE
ESSENTIAL NATURE OF NO WIN NO FEE CONTRACTS For
clients, the attractions of NO WIN NO FEE contracts are obvious. They can pursue valuable
planning permissions for housing and other kinds of development secure
in the knowledge that, if we win, they will gain an extremely valuable
planning permission. And, if they do not get the planning permission,
their costs and expenses will be limited to the absolute minimum. Once
our NO WIN NO FEE terms are offered, they simply cannot lose. Thus,
for our clients, a NO WIN NO FEE project drastically reduces the financial risk
involved in pursuing very valuable planning permissions. And most
clients are delighted to pay our fees when they are paying them from
money we
have effectively made for them by winning their planning
permission. So
far as Land Planning Associates is concerned, as Planning Law
specialists we do not view NO WIN
NO FEE contracts as significantly increasing our own business
risks. The risk and prospects of success for every
NO WIN NO FEE
project are carefully assessed before terms are set. Our success related
fee for such a project will naturally be higher than the fees we would
earn for the same project on a straight forward time plus expenses
charging basis where the client carries the risks of the planning
application or appeal . By sharing in the risk, we can
effectively receive a small share of the profits our Planning Law
expertise generates. Please
note: NO WIN NO FEE does
not mean no win no cost. It is our project consultancy fees which
are waived in exchange for a specified payment if we win your planning
permission. But there may be other costs involved
- e.g. your planning application fee payable to the local
planning authority if a planning application is required, plus the cost
of any plans, drawings or other documents (if needed) to complete your
project. (As Planning Law
specialists, we do not undertake preparation of plans and drawings or
other architectural work, which is the proper function of architects and
architectural technicians. But in many cases no plans are required apart
from an Ordnance Survey extract which we are licensed to copy.) Our
NO WIN NO FEE
terms remove the biggest risk of all for our clients the fees
charged for planning applications and planning appeals by the planning
consultancy itself. For details about our terms please CLICK HERE |