Cheltenham November 2018 Meeting 

Push the Big Red Planning Button - Linda Wright MBA DipTP

Linda is a planning consultant advising and obtaining planning permission for property developers and investors across England and Wales. She is a key note speaker, writer and guest lecturer at Manchester, Liverpool and Bolton universities

She has enjoyed a successful 35-year career in planning in both the public and private sectors – with the result that she has usually seen most planning problems before. Her pragmatic approach and insight into the planning system have been described as ‘invaluable’. She is truly a gamekeeper turned poacher.

Linda’s presenting style is both informative and entertaining – she says ‘Let’s face it the English planning system can be a minefield so we have to inject a little humour to make it tolerable.’

The USP on her CV is that she worked for several years as a senior planner for the Government on the island of Bermuda.

Linda's presentation for 2018 is ‘Push the Big Red Planning Button’ – where she invites you to ‘press a button’ on some of the planning and property issues trending at the moment. There are 12 topics to choose from.

www.planitwright.co.uk

ALSO .... Stamp Duty Land Tax - What you need to know - Andrew Punter 

After an introduction to what exactly Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) is, Andrew will explore the many exemptions and reliefs that exist within HMRC’s rule book.

Armed with this knowledge, your next deal might be £000’s cheaper. There may even be some overpayments that you might be able to claim back.

• 1 in 6 property deals are incorrectly paying SDLT.
• The HMRC manual has many little known exemptions and reliefs.
• Top conveyancers and solicitors are getting it wrong.
• There could be a brown envelope from HMRC with a big cheque in it for YOU!