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Our team operates at a national level across a variety of services. To find a consultant for your specific needs, please select a service below.

Our planning and development services

Planning consultancy

Planning consultancy

At Carter Jonas, we recognise that achieving planning permission is more than just being policy compliant. It is about understanding a wider range of factors and applying them to reach a favourable outcome.

Development consultancy

Development consultancy

Throughout the UK, Carter Jonas works with public, private and corporate clients to deliver property development projects with the aim of ensuring the maximum returns on clients’ assets.

Masterplanning and urban design

Masterplanning and urban design

Carter Jonas’ highly-skilled urban design and architectural design teams work together with planning, property and infrastructure colleagues to develop commercially-informed design proposals.
Development agency

Development agency

Our development agency teams advise clients on a diverse portfolio of urban, rural and fringe sites whether they be greenfield, brownfield or mixed.
Financial viability

Financial viability

Our team of development surveyors specialise in the preparation of financial viability assessments to support planning applications and Local Plans, as well as the review of assessments to determine the level of affordable housing.

Strategic land

Strategic land

Throughout the UK, Carter Jonas has been involved in some of the largest development projects – from urban extensions to new settlements – acting for a variety of clients and across the public, institutional, charity, corporate and private sectors.

Development land

Development land

Planning is an integral part of many projects on farms and estates, and is often the starting point for diversification.
Regeneration

Regeneration

Carter Jonas is at the centre of regeneration, transforming places and the communities that occupy and use them. Our dedicated and highly regarded regeneration consultancy teams have the breadth of skills and experience to assist with every step of regeneration projects, from inception to implementation.

Our specialisms

Education

Education

To perform their core activities, educational organisations and institutions need land that is in the right location, and buildings that are safe and suitable for effective teaching.
Regeneration

Regeneration

Our regeneration team offers a complete service throughout the lifespan of regeneration projects including housing estate renewal, high street and town centre regeneration schemes, and transport-led regeneration.
Energy

Energy

Our market leading energy team comprises surveyors, valuers, environmental specialists, project managers and town planners, enabling us to provide sound independent advice on all aspects of an energy project.
Minerals & waste management

Minerals & waste management

Our specialist team is recognised as a leading provider of specialist estate management, valuation and development advice relating to all mineral properties and waste management matters and infrastructure.
National commercial development

National commercial development

Our national commercial development team, working with our network of regional offices, is led by experts in commercial property development consultancy and development agency.
Build to rent

Build to rent

Our specialist inhouse team are experts in providing a range of services across the entire lifecycle of build to rent (BTR) and private rented sector (PRS), from inception through operation, and disposal.

Case studies

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Feb 06 2024
Carter Jonas achieves planning consent for St Modwen

Carter Jonas has secured outline planning consent on behalf of property developer St Modwen for a fu...

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Jan 30 2024
Carter Jonas advises on sale of 45 residential units at Acton Gardens

The Acton Gardens joint-venture partnership between Countryside Partnerships and L&Q has sold 45 res...

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Aug 10 2023
Carter Jonas Achieves Planning Consent for Harwell Science and Innovation Campus Limited Partnership

Carter Jonas has secured planning consent on behalf of Harwell Science and Innovation Campus for a n...

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Jun 20 2023
Carter Jonas Confirms Sale of Land in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent to Potteries Heavy Haulage

Carter Jonas, acting on behalf of Severn Trent Water plc, has sold a development site located on the...

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Apr 26 2023
Carter Jonas Achieves Planning Consent for a Fusion Demonstration Plant at Culham Science Centre, Oxfordshire

Carter Jonas has secured planning consent on behalf of UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) for a Fusi...

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Nov 03 2022
Carter Jonas Achieves Planning Consent for Endurance Estates Land Promotion Ltd in Longstanton, Cambridgeshire

Carter Jonas has secured outline planning consent on behalf of Endurance Estates Land Promotion Ltd ...

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Oct 28 2022
RTPI Young Planners’ Conference 2022

On the 21st and 22nd of October two members of our Midlands Planning Team, Frances Keenan and Annabe...

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Oct 20 2022
Carter Jonas Partner Andrew Smith Elected SIOR European Region Chapter President

The European chapter of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) has appointed Andrew Sm...

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Oct 18 2022
Carter Jonas Appoints Matt Lee as Head of Science and Technology

Carter Jonas has appointed Matt Lee as Head of Science and Technology, strengthening further the fir...

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Oct 06 2022
Planning permission granted for key Richmond office space

Plans for a newly refurbished, Grade A office building in Richmond have been given the green light.

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Sep 27 2022
Carter Jonas Confirms Sale of Land at Semington, Wiltshire

Carter Jonas, acting on behalf of a private landowner and the land promotor Greystoke Land, has sold...

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Sep 22 2022
Carter Jonas secures planning permission for Beaverbrook Golf Course

Following the Clubhouse burning down on 7th March 2022, we have secured permission for an identical ...

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