Commercially aware advice
We consider how planning and site constraints may affect value, viability, layout and timing—not merely whether a policy exists.
Planning consultants · Lincolnshire & East Midlands
See the potential.
Understand the risk.
Independent land and planning advice for site feasibility, planning applications and appeals. Tenon turns planning evidence into a clear decision about what could happen next.
A field evolves through a planning sketch and design model into a realistic small residential development.
01Existing field02Planning sketch03Design model04Real materials
Before you commit
Understand the opportunity
before committing to it.
Poor early development decisions are expensive. Tenon brings together planning research, site understanding and professional judgement to identify what may be achievable, what could materially affect it, and what should happen next.
Defined professional services
Decisions, not just advice.
Start with the question you actually need answered.
01
Development Potential Review
An initial professional assessment of what may be achievable, the material risks and the evidence likely to be needed—before you commit significant time or money.
From £395 + VATView service
02Planning Appeal Appraisal
An independent assessment of a refusal, the strengths and weaknesses of the case, and whether appeal, redesign or resubmission is the better next step.
£395 + VATView service
03Planning Appeals
Strategic appeal preparation grounded in the planning merits of the case. Final scope and fee are confirmed before work begins.
From £850 + VATView service
04Planning Strategy & Advice
Clear strategic advice for acquisitions, constrained sites, redevelopment opportunities and proposals that need the right route forward.
Fee confirmed after reviewView service
05Planning Applications
Planning strategy, preparation and coordination for appropriate development proposals, including identifying the specialist evidence required.
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Development Potential Review
A clear route from site
to decision.
An initial professional appraisal, interpreted in the context of your intended development—not an automated search or a list of constraints.
Explore the review01
Send us the site
Share the location, your interest in it and what you hope to achieve.
02
We investigate
We review the planning position, site context and material development constraints.
03
Opportunities & risks
We interpret what the evidence means for development potential and decision-making.
04
Clear recommendation
You receive a concise conclusion, risk position and recommended next steps.
05
Decide what to do next
Proceed, investigate further, change strategy—or step away before spending more.
REFUSED?
Planning Appeal Appraisal
Planning permission refused?
Don’t appeal automatically. Find out whether you have a case first.
We assess the refusal independently and may recommend appeal, further work, redesign, negotiation, resubmission—or not appealing at all.
£395 + VATIf we recommend proceeding and you instruct Tenon to prepare the appeal, £200 of your appraisal fee is credited against our subsequent appeal fee.
Request an Appeal Appraisal Who we help
Different stakeholders.
Different decisions.
Tenon begins with the decision each client needs to make—not a generic list of planning services.
01Appraise a site 02Assess development potential 03Understand your land 04Explore an opportunity 05Discuss a client site 06Review before purchase 07Plan the right route 08Review a refusal
Developers
Is this opportunity worth pursuing?Test the planning principle, constraints, likely evidence and development risks before acquisition, design or promotion costs escalate.
Housebuilders
What can the site realistically support?Understand how policy, access, flood risk, ecology, BNG and context may influence developable area, layout and programme.
Landowners
What is the land’s realistic planning potential?Move beyond hope value with an evidence-led view of opportunity, constraints and the proportionate next step before agreeing a strategy.
Farmers & estates
Could part of the holding support development?Explore diversification, disposal or promotion opportunities while recognising access, settlement, landscape and infrastructure realities early.
Land & property agents
What planning insight will help your client decide?Add a clear initial planning position to agency advice, negotiations and introductions without overstating what a site may deliver.
Investors & purchasers
Are the assumptions behind the deal robust?Identify planning and development issues that could change value, timing, deliverability or the specialist work needed before commitment.
Businesses
What is the right route for expansion or redevelopment?Clarify feasibility, planning strategy and evidence for operational growth, change of use, redevelopment or a new site.
Private clients
Refused—or unsure what to do next?Get a calm professional view of a refusal, difficult site or planning problem before committing to an appeal or another application.
Why Tenon
Evidence before
assumptions.
Architect-led understanding
Planning decisions interact with design, construction, regulation and technical feasibility. We keep those connections in view.
Clear recommendations
The output is designed to support a decision: what the evidence means, the material risks and what should happen next.
Independent judgement
We do not pressure clients to pursue a weak site or appeal. Sometimes the most valuable advice is to take a different route.
Case studies
Reasoning in practice.
Anonymised project experience, focused on the evidence and judgement that changed the route forward.
Reframing a constrained residential proposal
Connecting flood-zone evidence, levels, access and the site response clarified where the planning and technical case needed strengthening.
Recovering the position on a completed site
Comparing approved and constructed information exposed the material discrepancies, evidence priorities and proportionate route forward.
Testing an extension against heritage evidence
The appraisal separated visual concern from material planning harm and focused the evidence needed for the appeal case.
Planning consultancy in Lincolnshire
Local planning context.
Commercially clear advice.
Tenon supports landowners, developers, businesses and private clients across Lincolnshire and the East Midlands. Work can begin with a focused planning appeal appraisal, a site feasibility and planning appraisal, or broader land and planning advice.
Make the next decision with evidence