We offer specialist advice on development projects ranging from out-of-centre shopping developments to sensitive urban regeneration schemes. Our strengths lie in exploring not only the practical and strategic aspects of each project, but its commercial potential, and in guiding each scheme from concept to completion.

To cover the broad brief of planning and development, we have specialist teams in London and Edinburgh covering the areas listed in the right hand menu.

We provide a wide range of services of relevance to all developments, working closely with other departments to deliver seamless advice. Examples include: 

• Expert Witness Work - acting as expert witnesses in planning, heritage, valuation, and compulsory purchase matters;

• Feasibility Studies - providing advice on all types of feasibility options for land and property assets;

• Land Assembly - assembling land to facilitate development or to create “marriage value”;

• Planning Applications & Appeals - preparation and submission of planning applications and appeals;

• Planning Inquiries - preparation of evidence, appearing as expert witnesses, and administering the process at inquiries for our clients;

• Planning Policy Advice; Preparing, Advocacy & Monitoring - advising on statutory development plans and related guidance and the implications for our clients; and

• Regeneration Services - economic development and urban regeneration advice.

• Development Plan monitoring- monitoring emerging plans to safeguard the interests of landowners, developers, and operators;

• Opportunity Analyses – to identify through the planning system areas of opportunity for new development:

• Retail Impact Assessment- Preparation of Retail Impact Assessments to address local and national policy requirements; and

• Town Centre Regeneration- working with developers, investors, regeneration bodies and local authorities to promote the regeneration and expansion of town centres.

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