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ELG Planning

Award Winning Planning Advice, Nationwide

ELG Planning are a planning practice with offices in Darlington & Harrogate. We have 14 planners across the two offices and have been acting for a wide range of clients on projects across the country since 1995.

Over the past 28 years, the practice has secured planning permission for thousands of new homes; over 30 new schools and hospitals; and in excess of 1 million sq ft of office and retail floorspace. We have advised on numerous projects involving a wide range of planning issues on schemes ranging from quarries to solar farms; log cabins to hotels; sheltered housing to student accommodation; offices to power stations and supermarkets to waste operations.

Our clients come in all shapes and sizes including numerous PLCs, as well as private individuals. We offer planning support to public and private sector clients and operate across the country. Planning advice is delivered to our clients by our professional and enthusiastic team who possess a wide range of skills and expertise in the marketplace.

All our eligible staff are Members of the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Practice has been awarded RTPI Learning Partner status in recognition of our high level of commitment to training and professional development. In 2016 the practice was awarded the RTPI North East Planning Excellence Award and Highly Commended in the same category of the East of England award in 2017 & 2018. In 2017 and 2019 ELG were short listed nationally for Planning Consultancy of the Year and were Highly Commended in the RTPI East of England Learning Partner Award in 2020 and by the RTPI Learning Partner Awards for its Graduate Training Program in 2020.

The practice won the 'Planning Award' for Partnership Working' for Fletton Quays development in Peterborough 2018.