Our Team
Neil Langley, Managing Director
Neil is a planning consultant with an excellent knowledge of all aspects of planning, specialising in all aspects of planning enforcement with a particular interest in direct action, prosecution proceedings, compulsory purchase orders, enforced sales procedures and appeals. He has also successfully negotiated a number of Option Agreements, in one particular case representing a consortium of landowners to secure the most commercially viable Option. He was formerly Head of Planning Enforcement at King’s Lynn Borough Council and National Director of Planning Enforcement for Capita. He has over 16 years of experience in public and private sectors of planning including Development Management and Planning Enforcement. He has a wide variety of experience in appearing as expert witness in planning appeals and has appeared in court up to and including the Court of Appeal. He is an Associate Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, a Member of The National Association of Planning Enforcement and Certificated to undertake risk assessments by the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
Noticeable Court Cases
- Meredith vKing’s Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council [2017] UKUT 2 (LC)
- King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Council v Bunning [2013] EWHC 3390 (QB) (07 November 2013)
- King’s Lynn & West Norfolk Council v Smith & Anor [2009] EWHC 2615 (QB) (23 October 2009)
Noticeable CPO and ESP Cases
- CPO of Grade II London House in East Rudham, Norfolk
- CPO of Grade II Manor House in Narborough, Norfolk (including Judicial Review against the decision to serve a general vesting declaration and calculating compensation
- CPO of a traveller sites at Blunts Drove, Norfolk
- ESP of the former Victoria Café at Walsoken
John Selby, Principal Heritage Consultant
John is a consultant specialising in historic building repair, recording and conservation, the assessment of development sites and the preparation of design briefs. He was formerly Head of Conservation in South Cambridgeshire, then at Ely and King’s Lynn. He has over thirty years of experience in the field and has prepared a large number of Heritage Statements, undertaken levels 1&2 archaeological building recording and has produced ‘concept designs’ for historic sites.
He ran the course in Historic Building Conservation for Cambridge University Institute of Continuing Education for over twenty years and was a member of the Ely Diocesan Committee for the Care of Churches for sixteen years. He is still a member of the Diocese Closed Churches Committee. He is a former director and education officer of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation, a trustee of the King’s Lynn Preservation Trust and an honorary life member of the Hunstanton Civic Society.
Andrew Page, Principal Architect
Andrew qualified as a registered architect in November 1982, has worked in private practice and now has in excess of 37 years post qualification experience. He has held senior positions at Associated Architects in Birmingham, Gould Singleton Architects in Halesowen, A + G Architects in Loughborough and Associate at CPMG Architects in Nottingham. In 2008 he set up as a sole trader architect bringing his wealth of commercial experience to the residential sector of the market. In addition to running his own practice he is a consultant architect at his former practice A + G Architects in Loughborough for larger residential and commercial projects.
Andrew has delivered projects from health care facilities, higher and primary education projects through to individual dwellings and domestic extensions. He has been involved in all forms of construction types, new build, works to existing, listed structures from inception through to completion delivering projects on time and within clients budgets.