Obligation map
What is promised, where is it promised, who must deliver it and when?
Obligations need evidence
Section 106, BNG and ecological promises only help if they can be located, understood and tested.
The review route should connect public commitments to land, timing, enforceability, conditions, management plans and practical delivery.
Planning obligations and ecology
Section 106, BNG and ecological evidence review support.
For people facing development where promises about ecology, mitigation, infrastructure, open space, access or management need to be understood before they are relied upon.
What we help clarify
Not legal advice. Evidence architecture and strategic issue-spotting.
Clear Position can help organise the public documents and questions around planning obligations, ecological mitigation and land-control assumptions so affected people can use professional advice more efficiently.
Ecology map
What habitat, species, corridor, BNG or management assumptions need checking?
Land-control map
Does the scheme appear to rely on land, access, boundaries or management outside the obvious site?
Best starting points
Start small, then scale only if the issue justifies it.
The first product is usually a Development Pressure Diagnostic or Greenfield Development Evidence Snapshot. If the issue is serious, it can move into a Position Pack or Mediation Suite Scoping.
Route → proof → product
If this is happening near you, do not start with a fight. Start with structure.
Clear Position connects public development pressure to a practical route: understand the documents, identify the evidence questions, choose a defined product and only then decide whether deeper support is justified.
Choose the route
Individual, resident group, commercial stakeholder or professional/adviser-facing support.
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The developer-land-pressure case study shows how boundary, title, planning, ecology and mediation issues can be structured.
Read case studyStart with a defined product
Development Pressure Diagnostic, Greenfield Development Evidence Snapshot or a deeper Position Pack.
View productsScope the call
Use the free 20-minute scoping chat to confirm whether Clear Position is likely to help.
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Planning obligations only help if people understand what they actually require.
Section 106 obligations, planning conditions, landscape plans and ecological commitments can sit across many documents. Residents often see the headline promise, but not the enforceability, trigger, land-control assumption or later variation.
Documents to gather
- Section 106 agreement, definitions and signed plans.
- Decision notice, planning conditions and approved drawing list.
- Landscape, LEMP and maintenance obligations.
- Any Section 73, discharge-of-condition or non-material amendment material.
- Council correspondence explaining later changes or substitutions.
Questions to ask
- What land is defined as the land subject to obligations?
- Which plans are approved, superseded or merely illustrative?
- Do later changes release, replace or sit alongside the original obligation?
- Who monitors compliance and when?
- Is the obligation practical within land demonstrably available?
Common questions
Section 106, planning condition and mitigation FAQs.
Can residents enforce a Section 106 agreement themselves?
That depends on the agreement and legal position, so legal advice may be required. Clear Position helps residents understand the document structure, identify questions and prepare material for appropriate advice or council engagement.
What if a condition has been discharged?
Discharge does not always answer whether the underlying scheme is practically deliverable, properly evidenced or later varied. The approved drawings, conditions, obligations and implementation facts need to be read together.
Why does land control matter?
If an obligation depends on land, access, habitat or management outside clear control, the issue may move from a planning promise to a deliverability and evidence question.
Professional boundary: Clear Position provides strategic evidence, document-structuring and position-clarification support. We do not provide legal advice, planning consultancy, ecological consultancy or regulated claims-management services. Where specialist advice is needed, the purpose of our work is to help clients approach the right professional with clearer material and better questions.
Professional boundary
Preparation, evidence architecture and clear questions — not regulated legal representation.
Clear Position helps clients organise complex documents, build chronologies, map issues, compare plans, structure evidence and prepare clearer material for appropriate professionals. We do not replace solicitors, barristers, planners, ecologists, surveyors or other regulated advisers.
What we do
We help clarify what is happening, what documents matter, what evidence is missing, what questions should be asked, and how material can be presented in a more usable structure.
What we do not do
We do not provide legal advice, conduct litigation, exercise rights of audience, provide conveyancing, planning consultancy, ecological consultancy or regulated claims-management services.
How professionals fit
Where legal, planning, ecological, surveying or other specialist advice is needed, our role is to help clients approach the right professional with clearer material, better chronology and sharper questions.
Start with a conversation
We are building Clear Position carefully, so we want to speak to the right people before anything is sold.
The usual first step is a free 20-minute scoping chat. It is there to understand the pressure you are facing, decide whether Clear Position is likely to help, and identify the right first paid step only if there is a sensible fit.