Masterplanning - Capacity/Feasibility Studies

• Site context studies & baseline appraisals - Undertaking context studies to assess the sustainability of site locations, including baseline mapping studies –typically flood risk, heritage, planning and landscape designations.

• Townscape analysis – urban character & morphology studies - Undertaking historical mapping studies, urban morphology and townscape character studies.

• Analysis of baseline technical reports & data - Reviewing technical reports and other site data in order to determine opportunities and constraints, and records of risks and assumptions.

• Documenting site opportunities & constraints - Producing combined opportunities and constraints plans, together with supporting tables of constraints.

• Planning policy review & brief definition - Conducting reviews of applicable national and local planning policy to determine compliant design and development briefs.

• Commerciality - Working closely with our development consultancy team to ensure development proposals are commercially viable and deliverable.

• Masterplan strategies & options - Producing masterplan strategies in diagrammatic and illustrative formats - demonstrating land use and site development capacity, access and circulation, landscape and open space. Identifying development options alongside setting out a clear planning strategy to ensure Local Plan compliance, including capacity studies to test the best and most appropriate development solutions.

• Collaboration - Working closely with our in-house (or external) planning and development teams to provide clients with a clear understanding of the position at this stage of work before proceeding to the next, more detailed stage.

• Stage 1 reporting - Producing the following technical based documentation:

Feasibility and capacity study documents including:

• planning appraisals, baseline analysis, constraints,

• site options and briefs, concept plans, land and development appraisals