Harwood Savin provided strategic and planning application advice to Ashford College (part of the Hadlow College Group and formerly K College) in respect of campuses in Ashford and Folkestone since 2010
Harwood Savin has recently been successful in securing planning permission for an "air-space" scheme of six additional storeys on top of the existing two storey Wilko retail unit in the centre of Bognor Regis.
Harwood Savin advised the former K College (now Ashford College) on the renewal of outline planning permission for up to 241 residential units on the College’s existing campus, which helped to facilitate the development of the College’s new campus in Ashford Town Centre at Elwick Road.
Harwood Savin successfully secured a -hybrid- planning permission for 12,700 sqm new building Further Education College, 442 Student Residential Units, and up to 125 residential apartments in Central Brighton for City College Brighton and Hove (Now Greater Brighton Metropolitan College).
Harwood Savin was successful in securing planning permission for a replacement dwelling in the countryside. Our client approached us having acquired a property which was under construction but which had not been built in accordance with the approved and historic planning permission.
Harwood Savin was instructed by a client to advise on a number of matters relating to a very prominent Grade II listed building on a main shopping in this popular seaside town.
Harwood Savin provided strategic and planning application advice to Ashford College (part of the Hadlow College Group and formerly K College) in respect of campuses in Ashford and Folkestone since 2010, including obtaining planning permission for the new state of the art Campus facilities at Elwick Road Ashford, not once, but twice, in 2011 for 14,500 sqm and again with a revised proposal in 2015 for 11,000 sqm. The new College opened to students in September 2017.
Advice comprised the preparation and submission of a detailed planning application for a new College and Technology Centre, to be constructed in phases, on a town centre site, partly within a Conservation Area. The scheme represented a minor departure from the Town Centre Area Action Plan and therefore required a detailed over-riding needs justification.
Our role also included negotiating a significant reduction in S106 obligations as project viability was a significant driver behind the deliverability of the scheme.
In securing consent for this scheme and the subsequent revised proposals, we worked closely with HNW Architects to ensure that the original design intent of a landmark building on this key gateway site was maintained, but that the restrictive budgetary parameters were met.