We are a Planning & Development Consultancy
As advisors to both public bodies and the private sector, we pride ourselves on the collaborative approach we take towards everything that we do. We understand the challenges that our clients face and our diverse skill set allows us to provide bespoke and wide-ranging development and planning consultancy advice.

An Introduction
Both as a team and as individuals, we have years of experience across all sectors, including residential, urban regeneration, town centres, mixed-use development, employment uses, logistics, retail and leisure. It is our combined public-private experience and surveying and planning expertise that helps us to stand out from the crowd.
We are a consultancy that reflects our individual personalities; approachable, flexible, with a ‘can-do’ attitude. What drives us is genuine partnership working, which is achieved through our engagement focussed approach.
Building on early successes our team has grown along the way and we now work on a wide range of projects on a national basis. Encouraging career progression, CPD and promoting a work/life balance are at the heart of our core values.
Our reputation is founded upon the quality of advice and service that we offer.
We are a consultancy that reflects our individual personalities; approachable, flexible, with a ‘can-do’ attitude. What drives us is genuine partnership working, which is achieved through our engagement focussed approach.
Building on early successes our team has grown along the way and we now work on a wide range of projects on a national basis. Encouraging career progression, CPD and promoting a work/life balance are at the heart of our core values.
Our reputation is founded upon the quality of advice and service that we offer.
What our clients think of us
The Council have instructed Hive on a number of significant residential and regeneration projects within the City, including the review and implementation of the City Living Strategy, bidding to the LGA to secure funding and helping to establish a housing delivery vehicle. Hive are also project managing the delivery of the Homes England Local Authority Accelerated Construction Programme, the purpose of which is to invest grant into PCC owned sites to unlock them for residential development. Critically, Hive understand the way the Council operates and so have always provided prompt and well considered advice and they share our drive to achieve the Council’s growth objectives for the City, which has been extremely well received by everyone involved.

Homes England have worked with Hive on a wide range of projects, including site promotion, strategic business cases, the promotion of HE programmes to local authority partners, evidence-based work on housing delivery trajectories, complex commercial negotiations around access agreements and development agreements and large scale outline planning applications. Myself and the team have been very pleased with the work Hive have done, which has always been to an extremely high standard and delivered in line with our programme and always to budget. Hive’s collaborative approach and public-private experience has been critical in helping us to achieve successful outcomes with both developers and local authority partners.

planning
Our expert planning team offers comprehensive guidance for private and public sector clients, focusing on collaboration and clear, strategic advice.