Understanding the full planning and development constraints and opportunities of a site.
Feasibility - developing a considered development proposal.
Based on the identified constraints and opportunities of the site, preparing an informed development/project brief with relevant experts (rights of light, townscape, sustainability).
Co-ordination of a financial appraisal for the project.
Planning strategy - assessing the best options to deliver the project.
Developing a Planning Strategy to consider the best options to deliver the project through the planning system and beyond, including when and how to best engage with relevant stakeholders.
Preparing and submitting applications - managing the planning process
Confirming (and sometimes challenging) the information required to be submitted as part of an application
Assembling and managing multidisciplinary team.
Preparing and reviewing technical evidence to support applications
Engagement and consultation - helping secure buy-in from relevant stakeholders
Meeting the right stakeholders, at the right time.
Making the most of pre-application discussions with Councils and the GLA
Political strategy
Securing approval - obtaining the best planning permission possible
Optimising planning conditions, obligations and Community Infrastructure Levy
Delivery - starting and completing the project in the most time and cost effective way
Co-ordinating condition submissions and managing any Section 106/CIL requirements
Securing necessary amendments to the development.
Other services we provide include:
Spatial planning and regeneration
Influencing new planning policy through sound evidence
Promoting sites through the planning system to introduce or revise site allocations
Research
Economic and socio-economic evidence and advice
Other research topics
Planning appeals
Strategy, management and delivery of appeals, including inquiries and expert witness service
