At OCA UK Limited we have always provided experts to act at hearings inquiries and in cases of judicial review.
Planning work, more than any other area of expert service, requires the ability to take instruction as part of a team and to work together with fellow witnesses as part of that team. Without this team ethic, your own professional contribution will be marginalized. Therefore, we place great emphasis on project management skills and on training that produces 'planning' team players.
Of equal importance, is the imperative of a wide professional vocabulary and overall comprehension of how things are built. Without this language, the impact of "finished levels, visibility splays, drainage outfalls, piled foundations, ground beams, sustainable urban drainage", may not be fully appreciated by the team, leading to awkward or fatal mistakes being inadvertently built into the teams' evidence.
All our experts receive professional development in the processes that lead to modern plans and modern methods of construction. Solicitors and planning consultants can rest assured that we understand the requirements for modern development and its context in a plan-led system.
We are particularly well versed in the statutory obligations that flow from the constraints associated with Tree preservation Orders, Conservation Areas, Habitat Management and Ecology, Section 106 obligations, the formulation and the discharge of planning conditions and any enforcement actions and their impact on development.
