What we do

Taking a site, a policy position or an allocation and working out what is achievable, in what order, and what it will take to get there.

That means testing the site against adopted and emerging policy, identifying what genuinely constrains it, and being straight about the sequence. Sometimes the useful answer is that it is not worth starting, and it is cheaper to hear that at the beginning.

Our own record of what the planning system decides, read against the wider economy.

Research is collecting what happened. Analysis is knowing which parts of it matter to you. We do both, and we publish some of it so you can judge the quality before you commission any.

Moving land through the system so it is worth what it should be worth, and so it holds up when somebody examines it.

Promotion where it suits the site and the owner. Advice where it does not. We would rather tell you a promotion agreement is the wrong instrument for your land than sign one and find out together.

Running the process. Programme, consultants, submissions and the authority relationship, held together so the thing lands.

Most schemes that fail do not fail on policy. They fail because something was late, somebody was not told, or a consultant produced the wrong document for the wrong deadline.