Economic Planning

Our economic planning service helps our clients to measure, understand and articulate economic impact and development viability to inform positive planning strategy on all projects.

Delivering economic growth is widely recognised as a key challenge for the UK. The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) emphasises that the planning system should proactively and positively enable economic growth. By supporting the delivery of necessary infrastructure, including housing, the potential of local economies can be realised and communities can benefit.

In this context, evidencing the impact of individual developments, investments and Local Plans is increasingly important to unlocking planning permissions as well as developing sound planning policy.

Working independently and as part of multi-disciplinary teams, we deliver robust, evidenced and commercially informed advice. Our consultants have wide experience in property, development viability, economic development and housing. We often deploy a combination of this expertise, recognising the links between the economy, property markets, development viability and the critical influence of planning policy.

We ensure that the economic case is fully evidenced and understood, to the benefit of each specific planning situation. We work at a range of scales, from individual developments to whole local authorities, housing market and Local Enterprise Partnership areas.

Services

We provide a comprehensive range of economic planning services to private and public clients including:

To discuss economic planning matters, please contact Antony Pollard, Director of Economic Planning.

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