We believe planning should be a positive and pro-active tool for making things happen, an attitude that permeates all our planning consultancy work.
This approach has helped us to deliver more than 1,500 development projects which span a variety of scales and contexts. These range from domestic projects and listed building applications in a World Heritage City to urban extensions and major mixed-use development projects.
The planning process
We work for organisations of all types and sizes to steer a range of planning and related applications through the planning process. Our clients include individual homeowners, developers, house builders, housing associations, local authorities, charitable organisations and other public bodies.
Our planning consultancy service
While our planning services can be provided separately, we add value by working with our Architecture, Heritage and Placemaking colleagues to bring a broad understanding of the wider context, both local and national. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) also help define our approach.
Our work ranges from securing permission for new-build developments to listed building applications, site appraisals, public engagement, appeals, heritage assessments, placemaking frameworks, masterplanning, policy and guidance and regeneration strategies.
And whether your project involves a small rural home, a large mixed-use urban development, or something in between, we also provide policy and planning guidance to help you make sense of the current context.
Whether large or small, each planning project we work on brings knowledge to the next.
Our planning consultancy service draws on over 30 years’ experience gained in Bristol, Bath and much further afield to deliver positive planning outcomes. Our services include:
- Planning permission applications
- Site appraisals and feasibility studies
- Prior approval applications
- Listed building consent applications
- Advertisement consent applications
- Certificate of lawfulness applications
- Pre-application engagement and submissions
- Community and stakeholder engagement
- Advice on emerging policy
- Discharge of conditions
- S106 agreements
- Community Infrastructure levy advice and administration
- Planning permission appeals
- Sequential tests
- Environmental impact screening and inputs
- Heritage impact assessments
- Site promotion and representation at Examinations in Public (EIP)
- Advice on phosphates and nitrates
- Socio-economic, spatial analysis and place profiling
With Sustainable Development Goals at the heart of our business plan, we also employ an SDG toolkit on some of our projects to measure, monitor and analyse our performance.
Find out more about what we do and our approach in our Planning brochure.
Our planning consultants
Our Associate Planners are full members of the RTPI,.
“Planning is about providing a framework for positive change in the built and natural environment. Central to our approach is people – we facilitate, collaborate and mediate to make this change happen.”
Martin Lee, Associate Planner