Town Planning
Making development ambitions happen
Our town planners help to create great places around the country. We’re experts at getting the best possible planning permission for a building scheme, then guiding it through to successful completion. We advise on all scales of development in every city and town in the UK.
We promote and secure hundreds of complex, high profile planning approvals for a range of city centre, commercial, residential and strategic residential schemes for developer, landowner, investors and asset managers. Schemes such as building 2,800 new homes on Green Belt land in Redditch, and a 75-storey tower compromising 822 new homes and 162 serviced apartments on the Isle of Dogs.
We also help local authorities and stakeholders in making intelligent decisions about their public real estate assets. Our planning consultants were recently engaged by Wandsworth council to masterplan the £1bn regeneration of Winstanley Estate, a 17 hectare social housing development.
Our advice is rooted in a solid understanding of local and regional markets around the UK, and multidisciplinary technical expertise. Whether carrying out planning appraisals, negotiating and obtaining planning permission, or advising on planning issues of every stage of the development process, our multi-disciplined teams apply the same high level of professionalism and intellectual rigour.
The services we provide cover:
- Planning Applications and Appeals
- Viability Assessments
- Spatial Planning/Place making
- Regeneration
- Town Centre & Retail Planning
- Land Assembly and Compulsory Purchase
- Environment Impact Assessment & Environmental Auditing
- Economic and Socio Economic advice

Making development ambitions happen
Our town planners help to create great places around the country. We’re experts at getting the best possible planning permission for a building scheme, then guiding it through to successful completion. We advise on all scales of development in every city and town in the UK.
We promote and secure hundreds of complex, high profile planning approvals for a range of city centre, commercial, residential and strategic residential schemes for developer, landowner, investors and asset managers. Schemes such as building 2,800 new homes on Green Belt land in Redditch, and a 75-storey tower compromising 822 new homes and 162 serviced apartments on the Isle of Dogs.
We also help local authorities and stakeholders in making intelligent decisions about their public real estate assets. Our planning consultants were recently engaged by Wandsworth council to masterplan the £1bn regeneration of Winstanley Estate, a 17 hectare social housing development.
Our advice is rooted in a solid understanding of local and regional markets around the UK, and multidisciplinary technical expertise. Whether carrying out planning appraisals, negotiating and obtaining planning permission, or advising on planning issues of every stage of the development process, our multi-disciplined teams apply the same high level of professionalism and intellectual rigour.
The services we provide cover:
- Planning Applications and Appeals
- Viability Assessments
- Spatial Planning/Place making
- Regeneration
- Town Centre & Retail Planning
- Land Assembly and Compulsory Purchase
- Environment Impact Assessment & Environmental Auditing
- Economic and Socio Economic advice
Key town planning contacts

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News Release
Far East Consortium announces Red Bank affordable housing delivery panelFar East Consortium (FEC) has today announced its partner panel for the delivery of affordable homes across the Red Bank neighbourhood of the Northern Gateway, with immediate effect.Wednesday, 20 Jan 2021
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News Release
Planning approved for up to 128 new homes in WyreThe residential development will be delivered in three phases across circa four hectares, located on the site of the former Thornton Cleveleys Football Club.Wednesday, 2 Dec 2020
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Plans for 400 more homes in Crewe approvedThe 19-hectare site forms part of a wider masterplan for homes for the area, totalling 98 hectares, which will ultimately deliver 1,250 homes.Wednesday, 25 Nov 2020
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Avison Young joins forces with Rugby Borough Council and Allies and Morrison to develop fresh vision for Rugby town centreRugby Borough Council has announced plans for a major regeneration of the town centre with the development of an ambitious new strategic masterplan.Monday, 2 Nov 2020
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