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. 

Let’s work together

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.

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

2020 Winner of the national Planning Awards Editors Choice Award for best overall project and the Increased Housing Delivery category for Preston City Living Strategy

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