Planning Cost Tools: Bolstering a Developers Business Plan

At CLS Risk Solutions, we provide financial indemnity insurance to help funders and developers remove the financial risks at different stages of the property lifecycle. One of the biggest financial hurdles our clients face are the costs invested into planning applications. Especially when they know there’s a significant chance some of these applications will never […]

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Outdoor Space Vital For Post Covid Planning

We’re CLS Risk Solutions and we provide smart insurance tools to help developers and funders unlock more opportunity across the real estate market. And our blog is written with the same purpose – we stay up to date with any immerging market trends and publish content that can really be of benefit to our clients […]

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Working in the Existing Planning Regime

We’re CLS Risk Solutions and we provide smart insurance tools to help developers and funders unlock more opportunity across the real estate market. And our blog is written with the same purpose – we stay up to date with any immerging market trends and publish content that can really be of benefit to our clients […]

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Legal and Planning Experts Share How to Deal With Judicial Review

Judicial Review is a legal process which allows a claimant to challenge a planning decision, which if upheld requires the planning body to consider the objections raised. For developers and planners Judicial Review can be a substantial risk to projects and the risk of judicial review can potentially become a funding limitation. Chris Gwynn, Lead […]

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Planning Experts Reveal How to Reduce Your Risk of Refusal

Ever since the Town and County Planning Act of 1947, development has been conditional on approval from planning authorities. It can be a long process to achieve planning permission, and planning considerations have broadened and are always subject to change. Planning refusal is therefore a risk that anyone undertaking development faces, but one that can […]

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