Consents management

Consent is an agreement with someone to take an action. For example, if workers need to access private land in order to widen a road, the landowner’s permission will have to be sought.

Consents are critical to most infrastructure projects, so early identification is advised. If a project requires consents but proceeds to construction without them, this could be a criminal offence.

Different types of work may require different types of consents, such as:

• environmental
• town planning
• highways
• railway and
• property consents.

These types of works are all discussed in this section. 

RICS standards: Surveyors advising in respect of compulsory purchase and statutory compensation, UK

RICS practice information: Insights into compulsory purchase

isurv section: Plannning policy