David Stovell & Millwater is a well established, fully independent firm of Planning and Architectural Consultants offering a high degree of professional service based in the North East. 

The Managing Director David Stovell has 40 years of planning experience.  His experience, which includes time as a Planning Inspector, extends to the full range of planning matters including dealing with all types of planning applications, preparation of appeals and giving evidence at Public Inquiries.  We can offer a complete design service from the concept through to completion.

As an integral part of, as well as a complement to, our planning consultancy the practice has its own in-house architectural design team. This enables us to provide, where required, a personal “one-stop” service from initial concept and ideas to finished development.

We have been established since 1985, offering independent professional advice on planning and design. The practice has successfully established a varied client base amongst large multi-national companies, smaller firms, developers, charities, solicitors, financial institutions, architects, surveyors and agencies as well as individual members of the public and environmental interest groups.