
Mark Doodes
Chartered town planner and independent planning consultant with experience in local authority and private practice, specialising in planning advice for residential development and replacement dwellings.
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Feb 9, 2026 • 48min
HPH396: Getting planning permission for a replacement dwelling – with Mark Doodes
Mark Doodes, a chartered town planner who advises on residential and replacement dwelling planning, walks through what submitting a demolish-and-rebuild application involves. He explores where to start with planning research. He covers green belt strategies, permitted development tactics, designing for local context, common refusal reasons, realistic timelines and using fallbacks and pre-purchase assessments.


