Sectors
Neagle Planning advises across a broad range of sectors, bringing senior-level insight, commercial awareness, and a detailed understanding of how planning policy is interpreted and applied in practice.
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Every instruction is led personally, ensuring advice is proportionate, well-judged, and tailored to the specific context of each sector. Some of the experience and clients Oliver has worked with throughout his career are included in each section:
Residential
Developments
We advise developers and land promoters on residential and mixed-use schemes ranging from small-scale development to major strategic sites.
Experience spans greenfield, brownfield and urban contexts, with advice shaped around deliverability, viability, and planning risk.
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Experience includes major residential-led development, EIA schemes and strategic land promotion through Local Plan processes, including schemes of 1,000+ dwellings and large mixed-use proposals.
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Client Experience Includes:
Berkeley Homes
Crest Nicholson
Taylor Wimpey
Wates Developments
Welbeck Strategic Land
Science, Research, Defence & Energy
We advise on complex and specialist development within science, research, defence, and energy sectors, where technical requirements, safety considerations and strategic policy alignment are critical.
Advice is informed by experience on a wide range of significant science, research, defence, energy, and employment projects across England.
Experience includes securing consent for over 100,000 sqm of research and employment floorspace, supporting the release of approximately 80 hectares of employment land from the Green Belt through the Local Plan process, and advising on major science and energy projects in sensitive planning contexts.
Client Experience Includes:
Centrica
Harwell Campus
MBDA UK
National Grid
Spirit Energy
Structadene Group
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)
UK Government.
Education, Universities
& Public Sector
We provide specialist planning advice to universities and public-sector bodies, where long-term estate planning, operational need and political sensitivity are critical.
Advice includes campus expansion, academic and research buildings, estate rationalisation and engagement with elected Members and stakeholders.
Experience includes estate-wide planning advice to research-intensive universities, planning support for town-centre masterplans including securing the required planning permissions, securing consent for new buildings, and listed building consent where required.
Client Experience Includes:
Buckinghamshire Council Gloucestershire Police University of Oxford
University of Reading
Wiltshire Police
Private Clients, Estates
& Landowners
We advise homeowners, private landowners, estates, investors and high-net-worth individuals on a wide range of development, diversification and asset-management projects, from small-scale householder works to complex long-term estate strategies.
Advice is clear, proportionate and commercially focused, balancing long-term objectives with planning risk, policy constraints and deliverability, and providing practical guidance on what is lawful, achievable and how best to progress.
Experience includes householder development, Permitted Development and Prior Approval (including Class Q and Class R), Lawful Development Certificates, and development within the Green Belt and National Landscape (formerly Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty), heritage and listed building assets, and strategic land promotion.
Client Experience Includes:
Berwick Estate
The Crown Estate
Diocese of Peterborough Diocese of Salisbury Leverhulme Estates
Sundorne Estate
Private Clients.
Extra Care & Student Accommodation
We advise on student accommodation and extra-care development, where planning policy, operational requirements and community considerations must be carefully balanced.
Advice focuses on site suitability, planning justification, amenity impacts, and deliverability.
Experience includes high-density student accommodation schemes, including large mixed-use developments and specialist accommodation in constrained urban environments.
Client Experience Includes:
Abbeyfield Living Society
Frontier Estates
Sheet Anchor Evolve
Summix
Unite
Retail, Hospitality
& Town Centres
We advise commercial operators, investors and landlords on retail, leisure, and town-centre development, including new build, change of use and expansion projects.
Advice focuses on town-centre policy, commercial practicality, and deliverability.
Experience includes securing planning permission for new hospitality and leisure uses and advising on expansion and estate strategies for national operators.
Client Experience Includes:
The Co-operative Group
Côte Brasserie
The Ivy Collection
Miller & Carter
Mitchells & Butlers
Pizza Pilgrims
Starbucks
Tortilla