We help a wide range of people and organisations secure the necessary permission or consent for their development.

We can confirm whether planning permission / consent is required for your works, and whether there is a realistic prospect of the application being successful. Our expert consultants can also guide your proposals to ensure that they are more likely to be approved, and provide the justification needed to get it over the line. 

Based near Gatwick in Sussex, we are well placed to help with projects across London and the South East. We also take on projects further afield where our expert advice is needed.

We take on projects of all sizes, providing impartial and honest planning advise on your chance of success and the best way to bring your proposed development forward. With our partners, we can also help work out the best use of a particular piece of land financially. 

Here’s a list of some of the types of applications that we help our clients with:

      Outline planning applications

      Reserved Matters applications

      Full planning applications

      Householder planning applications

      Listed Building Consent applications

      Conservation Area Consent applications

      Advertisement Consent applications

      Applications for Certificates of Lawfulness

      Prior Approval applications

      Applications to vary or discharge matters reserved by planning conditions

      Tree works applications (Tree Preservation Orders)

      Applications for Permission in Principle

      Applications for Advertisement Consent 

If you need help with any of the above, don't hesitate to get in touch. 

Privacy Notice

This privacy notice explains how Squires Planning Ltd. (a company registered in England number 11917764) uses the personal information we collect from you, either through using our website, or in any other way, electronically, verbally or in writing.

Data controller

Squires Planning Ltd. is the data controller, this is because we make decisions about what data is collected and how it is used and with whom it is shared with. We can be contacted at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or telephone 01293 978 200

On what basis do we collect and process your data?

We process personal data for the purpose of providing planning consultancy, managing contracts and projects, and conducting administrative functions. We also occasionally process personal data for the purpose of holding consultation meetings. Data Protection law defines the basis by which we can lawfully collect and process personal data for that purpose.

To allow us to engage with you to provide our services, we will collect and process personal data where it is necessary to enable a contract for services to be put in place and subsequently to deliver that service. Where we process personal data for the purpose of consultation, we undertake this on a legitimate interest basis. The legitimate interest pursued is the collection of local opinion to inform our work and to provide a forum for local opinion to be heard.

We process your personal data where you have provided us consent to do so, such as providing marketing material. You can withdraw consent at any time by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

We will also process your data if we feel it is required to protect your vital interests, or the vital interests of another person. This might occur in serious life or death situations where immediate disclosure of personal data is required, and you are unable to give that information yourself.

This is the data we collect and the basis for doing so.

Purpose	Data Type	Data Collected	Legal Basis
Provide required service	Identity Details	Full Name	Contract (Article 6(1)(b))
Provide required service	Contact Details	Full postal address	Contract (Article 6(1)(b))
Provide required service	Contact Details	Telephone number(s)	Contract (Article 6(1)(b))
Provide required service	Contact Details	Email address	Contract (Article 6(1)(b))
Provide required service	Identity Details	Signature	Contract (Article 6(1)(b))
Consultation purposes	Identity Details	Full name	Legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f))
Training and quality control	Identity Details	Voice recording	Legitimate Interest (Article 6(1)(f))
Consultation purposes	Contact Details	Full address	Legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f))
Consultation purposes	Contact Details	Email address	Legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f))
Marketing	Identity Details	Full name	Consent (Article 6(1)(a))
Marketing	Contact Details	Email address	Consent (Article 6(1)(a))
Marketing	Contact Details	Contact number	Consent (Article 6(1)(a))

We collect data in relation to your communications and interaction with us. This can include emails, text messaging, postal service delivery, social media posting or any other form of communication.

The data we collect as data controllers from our data subjects is obtained directly from the data subject themselves, although some contact details may be obtained from third party referrals. Please see our Cookie Policy for information on the data collected by our website.

Some of the data we collect is deemed necessary to contractually deliver our service to you. If you do not provide this data, we will be unable to enter into an agreement with you.

Data recipients and data transfers

We do not sell any of your personal data to any third party. Where required we will disclose your personal data with law enforcement and fraud prevention agencies. This is so we can help tackle fraud and or money laundering or where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject. We share your data with agencies such as HMRC. Additionally, we will disclose your personal data in connection with the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

We transfer your data to trusted third parties for the purposes of processing, these are:

• Microsoft
• FreeAgent
• Box.com
• Vonage
• Survey Monkey

Personal data in electronic form is held in UK accredited data centres. If data must be transferred outside of the EEA, we ensure that the transfer is covered by an EU adequacy decision or through mechanisms such as standard contractual clauses as approved by the EU and UK’s Information Commissioner or derogations provided by the GDPR.

Sensitive information

Squires Planning Ltd. does not process sensitive (special category) data as defined by Article 9 of the GDPR.

Retention policy

The data we collect directly from you is the minimum we require to facilitate the lawful processing activity described above. Personally Identifiable Information processed by us will be deleted in accordance with legal obligations and or our retention policy to ensure personal data is held only for as long as is required for the purpose we collected it or for our legitimate purposes.

Full personal data of clients will be retained for a minimum of 7 years following the end of any commercial agreement. Personal data required for statutory reporting or HMRC audit purposes will be retained for 7 years. Voice recordings are retained for 40 days.

Data Storage and Security

We follow strict security procedures to ensure that your personal information is not damaged, destroyed, or disclosed to a third party without your permission and to prevent unauthorised access. We store both physical and electronic records. We have put in place technical and organisational measures to ensure our physical security as well as technical measures for data backup, authorisation and authentication onto systems. We use secure firewalls and other measures such as strong passwords and multi factor authentication to restrict electronic access, including anti-virus and anti-malware measures. If the data must be transferred to a third party, we require them to have in place similar measures to protect your personal data. We have a process in place to mitigate the impact of any data breach that should occur. We use cloud based portals for storage which encrypt the data in transit and at rest.

Only persons who need the information to fulfil their roles and responsibilities are granted access to personal data. We may require you to cooperate with our security checks before we disclose information to you. You can update the personal information that you give us at any time by contacting us directly.

Your rights as a data subject

The regulations provide a number of rights to you as the Data Subject. Squires Planning Ltd. is committed to upholding those rights and those applicable to the personal information we collect, and process are listed below. In addition to these rights, you have the right to escalate any concern to the Supervisory Authority, which in the UK is the Information Commissioners Office https://ico.org.uk.  A full and detailed explanation of all rights can be found at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/

• The Right to be Informed – you should be clear about what, why and in what way your personal information will be processed at the time it is processed. This privacy policy sets out that information
• Right of Access – you have the right to know what personal information is held, by whom and why.
• The Right to Rectification – If the information we have collected and processed is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to have it rectified.
• Right to Erasure – You have the right to have your personal data erased and to prevent processing in some specific situations.
• Right to Restrict Processing - If you contest the accuracy of the personal data we hold, we will restrict the processing of your data until accuracy is verified.
• Right to Data Portability – You have the right to move, duplicate or transfer your data easily from one IT environment to another in a safe and secure way.
• Right to Object – You have the right to object to profiling and direct marketing
• You also have rights in relation to automated decision making.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK’s supervisory body, The Information Commissioners Office www.ico.org.uk

Automated decision making

We do not use automated decision making to process personal data.

Third party websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to the Squires Planning Ltd., so if you follow a link to another website, you should read that organisation’s own privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

We keep our privacy policy under review, and we will place any updates on our website. This privacy policy was last updated in August 2020

How to contact us

You can write to us at this address: Squires Planning Ltd, The Long Barn, Poplars Place, Crawley Down, RH10 4HH

You can telephone us on this number: 01293 978 200

You can email us by using this link: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below, we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are pieces of data, normally stored in text files, that websites place on visitors’ computers to store a range of information, usually specific to that visitor – or rather the device they are using to view the site – like the browser or mobile phone.

Cookies allow you to login on one page, then move around to other pages and stay logged in. They allow you to set preferences for the display of a page, and for these to be remembered the next time you return to it.

Cookies can also be used to watch the pages you visit between sites, which allows advertisers to build up a picture of your interests. Then when you land on a site that shows one of their adverts – they can tailor it to those interests. This is known as ‘behavioural advertising’.

Almost all websites use cookies in some way or another, and every page you visit in those sites writes cookies to your computer and receives them back from it. Cookies are incredibly useful – they allow modern websites to work the way people have come to expect – with every increasing level of personalisation and rich interactive functionality.

Cookies are categorised depending on what function they are set to perform:

Necessary / Essential cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that you can access the service you require and that your user preferences remain known. By placing these cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

Analytical cookies

We use analytical cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these analytical cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place analytical cookies.

Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies enable us to personalise the advertisements for you, and we (and third parties) gain insights into the campaign results. With these cookies you, as website visitor are linked to a unique ID, so you do not see the same ad more than once for example.

Because these cookies are marked as tracking cookies, we ask your permission to place these.

Social media buttons

Buttons such as for Facebook and Instagram are sometimes used to promote webpages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook and Instagram. These buttons work using pieces of code coming from Facebook and Instagram themselves. This code places cookies. These social media buttons also can store and process certain information, so a personalized advertisement can be shown to you.

Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymised as much as possible. Facebook and Instagram are in the United States.

There are other technologies used such as scripts. A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device. A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. To do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “All cookies”, you consent to us using all cookies and plug-ins as described in this cookie policy. You can also manage which cookies you wish to be set through our consent pop up. Alternatively, you can also manage the way your web browser handles cookies by using this link https://cookiepedia.co.uk/how-to-manage-cookies

Third parties

We have made agreements about the use of cookies with other companies that place cookies. However, we cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. Parties such as Google are to be considered as independent data controllers within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation. We recommend that you read the privacy statements of these companies.

The cookies we use on our website are: 

Cookie	Description	Duration	Type	3rd party share
__Secure-3PAPISID	Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting.	2 years	Marketing	Google
__Secure-3PSID	Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting.	2 years	Marketing	Google
__Secure-3PSIDCC	Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting.	2 years	Marketing	Google
_ga	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.	2 years	Analytics	Google
_gid	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.	1 day	Analytics	Google
_gat	This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.	1 minute	Analytics	Google
NID	This cookie is used to a profile based on user's interest and display personalised ads to the users.	6 months	Marketing	Google

We are a specialist Town and Country Planning Consultancy providing the full range of professional town planning services. Our most popular areas of work are summarised below, but this is not an exhaustive list and if the services you require are not listed please contact us and we can discuss your specific requirements further.

At Squires Planning, we are dedicated to fostering a collaborative and innovative environment where our team members can excel and find fulfillment in their careers. Established in 2019 by our Director, Andrew, our mission is to assemble a team of planners capable of tackling any challenge presented by our clients. We have since built a brand synonymous with excellence, quality, and innovation in the town planning profession.

Our Commitment to You

We recognize that our people are our greatest asset. We strive to meet your intrinsic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness to enhance motivation and well-being. Our commitments include:

1. Autonomy: We provide a high degree of independence, empowering you to pursue your professional interests and, where possible, personal passions.

2. Competence: We ensure you have access to ongoing training and development opportunities, enabling you to excel and be the best in your field.

3. Relatedness: We cultivate an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and connected, fostering a collaborative spirit to achieve great outcomes together.

Benefits of Joining Our Team

In addition to competitive salaries, holiday allowances, professional subscriptions, and pension contributions, we offer:

• Private Healthcare: Full-time staff receive zero excess Vitality healthcare, including optical and dental coverage, plus perks like cinema tickets and complimentary drinks at Café Nero.

• Paid Social Events: Participation is optional, but our team enjoys coming together to build camaraderie.

• Great Leave Allowances: We have modelled our leave allowances on the "big" consultancies, ensuring our team get as much time off as those in the city. 

• Funded Training/CPD: Stay current with fully supported continuous professional development, with regular 121s to ensure you're on track - never feel like you're not getting the training you need..

• Company Credit Card: Why should you buy stuff for the company, essentially lending the company money? You will get a company credit card to manage business expenses without personal outlay.

• Renumeration: Your pay is linked to what you bring to the team. Never feel underpaid. 

• Team Goals: Work towards the single company purpose and company goals. As the company thrives, so will you thanks to our profit share scheme.

Current Opportunities

We are always eager to discuss employment prospects with passionate professionals. If you believe Squires Planning is the right place for you, please reach out. To join our growing team, send your CV and a covering letter to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

At Squires Planning, we are passionate about shaping better places and helping our clients navigate the complex world of planning with confidence. We are a specialist town and country planning consultancy, delivering a wide range of services including planning applications, development appraisals, planning policy, landowner advice, and strategic consultancy — working across the private, public, and voluntary/charity sectors.

Our reach spans England and Wales, with a particular focus on two key regions. From our head office just outside Gatwick/Crawley, we deliver projects across the South East and London, while our Swindon office serves the Thames Valley and surrounding areas. Wherever we work, we bring the same commitment to excellence, creativity, and results.

We are proud to be a truly independent consultancy, without ties to other disciplines. This independence means we always act in our client’s best interests, helping to select the project team and inputs that are right for each individual scheme. It also allows us to offer honest, expert advice and find innovative solutions that balance ambition, practicality, and sustainability.

At the heart of our work are our service values - set out below - which guide everything we do. We don’t just advise; we partner with our clients, advocating for their projects, unlocking opportunities, and helping to shape places that communities can be proud of.

Our strength lies in our people. Our team is a dynamic blend of experienced professionals, each bringing unique expertise and a shared passion for shaping better places. From Chartered Town Planners to our exceptional support staff, every member is committed to delivering excellence and fostering strong, collaborative relationships with our clients.