Masterplanning & Urban Design

Acting as an Expert Witness for a client requires experience and a good grasp of planning, urban design and relevant statutes and frameworks such as the National Planning Policy Framework. In the past few years in particular, we have experience of representing a range of clients and winning appeals based on our efforts. We are seeking to build further on these services going forward and representing a wider range of clients, whether private or public sector.

Building for a Healthy Life and the National Design Guide form guidance that are used widely across the country, especially by local authorities assessing a development proposal in their area. We can provide a full assessment of a site using either guidance and have experience of preparing well over 100 such assessments for a national affordable housing provider, Helyo Housing, one of the UK’s leading shared ownership providers. We will seek to expand this service and approach other housing providers, national housebuilders and local authorities with this service offer.

The team specialises in the production of design codes as part of outline planning applications, development briefs and plot passports for smaller schemes.

We regularly produce design codes for a range of residentialled sites across the country, working closely with our clients and local authorities to produce high quality, highly visual documents.