Cheshire & North West
Planning Services
An independent Planning consultancy covering North West, North Wales and the Midlands
About ABL Planning and Development
ABL Planning & Development was founded in 2020 by Rachael Evans and is based in Northwich, Cheshire.
A Chartered Member of the RTPI (Royal Town Planning Institute), Rachael has more than 15 years' experience having worked in both the public and private sectors. Rachael also has extensive planning experience of working within Development Management teams in Local Planning Authorities from the North West region. Her strategic work for a land promotion company has taken her all across the UK.
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Keen to get back to ‘grassroots planning’, Rachael offers a range of services - from preparing stand-alone planning statements; managing and submitting planning applications and preparing planning appeals. Rachael also leads on enforcement matters.
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About Rachael
Self-confessed as ‘passionate about planning’, Rachael’s career has encompassed the monitoring of planning to ensure that conditions were discharged on full planning permissions, conservation area consents (including within Article 4 areas), listed building consents, demolition consents, tree preservation orders, hybrid applications and change of use applications. Rachael also investigated alleged breaches of planning control and consents and provided initial advice to members of the public, agents, Councillors etc on planning queries.
From her experience working as a Planner within a number of Local Authorities to senior project management within the private sector, Rachael oversaw the outline planning application process for residential developments; managed site appraisals and due diligence work prior to acquisition and identified the scope of supporting information. She also managed the appointment and co-ordination of multi-disciplinary external consultants and in-house expertise and had financial control of projects.
Used to liaising with land owners, statutory authorities and other key stakeholders for the successful promotion of strategic housing land through the planning system, Rachael’s wealth of experience leaves her perfectly placed to advise and assist on all manner of planning applications and dilemmas.
Respected within the industry, Rachael works collaboratively with architects and plan drawers to ensure the best outcome for her clients.
A volunteer within Planning Aid England, Rachael is keen to support the planning and development industry and has been an active volunteer since 2008, where she assists with community engagement consultations and on case work opportunities.
Paul - Trafford
We wanted advice on a number of domestic works as we didn't know whether planning was needed or not. Rachael's honesty saved us ££s as we found we could do everything under permitted development.
Circle Dental- Trafford
Thank you so much for your hard work and getting us across the line
Carl - Cheshire East
Hi Rachael,
What can I say, another amazing job. Thank you so much for the good work
Vicky - Cheshire East
Thank you for the amazing news.
We finally did it well done.
Robert - Flintshire
The plan drawer put me in touch with Rachael who came on board and made a planning case to the Council as to why the plans as submitted were policy compliant. Needless to say, no amendment to my plans were required.
Will - Conwy
I just want to say a massive thank you! Your service throughout the process has been second to none. There's no way we could have done it without your help.
Brian - Cheshire West & Chester
I contacted Ms Evans with the view to developing a number of dwellings in my rear garden. Ms Evans advised that based on her experience, it was highly unlikely that the Council would support an application for housing in my garden. After understanding the likely costs involved, as well as the time it would take to go through the process, I decided against the idea and chose to enjoy my garden instead.
Julie - Warrington
Thank you so much for your assistance in finally getting the Extension approved, I honestly thought they would leave it to the death to give us a decision. I can’t tell you how happy I am right now.