Mercury planning has a track record for achieving results. This firm of Town Planners is reliable, efficient and committed to community development. They are Warm hearted, approachable and have genuine interests in BME communities.

Their invaluable expertise is succour for the unsuspecting communities who very often are at the mercy of ruthless and overzealous local authority officials.

Hence their professionalism was remarkable and pivotal to the successful consideration of Aria’s community centre application for Planning Permission in one of London Boroughs.

I am honoured to strongly recommend Mercury Planning to any community, as they will bring their wealth of experience to bear which should add enormous value to your application.

I got to know Ray when he attended meditation classes at the LBC in 2007. At the time we were planning a large-scale building project of £1.6 million. Ray immediately offered to help and advise, giving both his time and expertise to look at the building, make suggestions and point us in the right direction. He is a delight to work with - straightforward, energetic, and generous.

Marlborough Developments use Mercury Planning because their reasoning is always well considered and thoroughly practical when tackling the vague approach often adopted by some Local Authorities.

Mercury Planning proved to be efficient but friendly, Ray took into Account our needs as a Church and went out of his way to find and Access any information that would help us. He took time to explain to us anything that was unclear. The experience we had with Mercury Planning was a very positive experience and is still on-going.

As one of London’s largest and oldest established home improvement companies specialising in loft conversions, kitchen extensions and basements for over forty years, we have a wealth of experience and knowledge of the planning policies of the London Borough’s. Most of the time we obtain planning permission for our clients without a problem but each year there are usually several refusals which require planning appeals. On these cases we have used the services of Ray Welch’s Mercury planning consultancy who has successfully reversed the Council’s decision and won planning permission for us.

We have found Ray’s in depth experience of the planning system (having been a planning officer himself) invaluable when putting a case together to challenge a Council’s refusal and the report format greatly assists a Planning Inspector to follow our reasoned arguments to grant permission. We have used Ray on standard written representations and public hearings and he has been successful on each occasion. We would always encourage homeowners to use Ray rather than get personally involved with appeals as he is able to separate any personal emotive sentiment and focuses only on the key planning issues which is what the Appeal Inspectors want.

I have been using Mercury Planning for almost 3 years for Consultancy and Appeals over refused commercial and residential planning applications, which have been successful.The service is experienced and professional and I have no hesitation in giving my personal recommendation.