What We Do
Our wide range of expertise sets us apart from other consultancies in the regeneration, planning and development sector.
We focus on the fine-grained details that make plans deliverable and turn visions into Places.
We’re a team of growth and regeneration experts offering practical advice that’s grounded in reality.
We go beyond planning.
Born out of first-hand public sector experience, we understand what’s needed to actually get your vision off a plan and out of the ground.
Projects are no longer viable
This is the reality that we hear time and again.
Whichever position you’re tackling the problem from, public sector bodies and developers alike are faced with spiralling costs, uncertainty and burdensome regulations.
Collaboration is the only solution
Working in partnership with local authorities and developers, our focus is on building deliverable proposals for real places.
When you can see a problem from both viewpoints, you understand how to tackle it head on. Working at the interface of the public and private sectors, we bring our team’s diverse perspectives to build strategies and credible solutions for real places.
We don’t wait for the perfect conditions before we get to work. We roll up our sleeves and offer straight talking advice, grounded in reality, and informed by our lived experience.
The result?
Plans become places more quickly, more efficiently and to a higher quality.
Our call to arms
Bring us your stalled regeneration sites and new settlement projects. Bring us your toughest market conditions and tightest funding deadlines.
We’ll act as the keystone; bridging perspectives and putting the right building blocks in place to secure crucial funding and get it delivered.
Got something specific in mind?
In a team with the breadth of expertise and experience like ours, we make a point of adapting to meet your needs, taking the initiative and becoming an extension of your team.
Here’s a flavour of the sort of things we can do for you within the planning, development and socio-economic sectors.
Got something else in mind? Pick up the phone and let’s chat it through.
Development Consultancy:
We have a highly experienced team capable of providing the following services:
• Infrastructure (grant) funding
• City-living strategy and implementation
• Governance structuring and partner engagement
• Delivery strategies
• Stewardship structuring and modelling
• Site de-risking and disposal strategies
• Market testing and engagement
• A flexible project management capacity support offer
Planning:
Our core planning offer is centred around the following areas of expertise:
• Co-ordination and management of complex planning applications
• Promotion of sites through the Local Plan process, including participation at Examination in Public
• Community and Stakeholder engagement
• Planning Appeals and Expert Witness at Public Inquiry
• Initial Planning Appraisal and Planning Strategy advice
• Section 106 negotiations
We also work either independently or as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team with developers and/or local authorities on regeneration, Sustainable Urban Extension and research projects, which utilise our core planning expertise to deliver the following services:
• Project management and planning input towards Town Centre Masterplans
• Local Plan Evidence base assistance – Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments / Urban Capacity Studies
• Area Action Plans / Supplementary Planning Documents
• Regeneration Frameworks
• Planning-related research projects
What our clients think of us
Our award-winning work…
2020 Winner of the Spatial Planning and Plan-Making award in the RTPI North West Regional Awards for Planning Excellence for the Preston City Living Strategy
2026 Winner of the Insider Property Awards for Property Consultancy of the Year
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