For developers
What it involves
Dedicated and focused expert resource for design and development services to assist with specific projects and workstreams.
How it adds value
Our fixed-term consultancy service provides you with expert guidance and specialist support precisely when you need it, within a clear timeframe and budget.
What it involves
We can manage the entire planning process on your behalf — from shaping the project brief and programme, to running tender processes, monitoring fee expenditure, and preparing development appraisals.
How it adds value
By managing the planning process and coordinating the wider consultant team, we help reduce risk, save time, and maintain cost control — while keeping the quality of design at the centre.
What it involves
We develop scheme proposals ready for submission to the local planning authority, collaborating closely with you and the wider consultant team. Our approach ensures the design is carefully tested against your brief, planning policy, regulatory requirements, and market context.
How it adds value
By preparing well-considered scheme proposals and advising on a tailored planning strategy, we help reduce risk, avoid costly delays, and increase the chances of securing consent. Our collaborative approach ensures the design isn’t just compliant, but also commercially viable and aligned with market demand.
What it involves
These studies build on our peer review service by not only identifying opportunity areas within an emerging scheme design or existing planning consent, but also developing practical design options to unlock additional value.
How it adds value
By going beyond identifying opportunities to actually develop and test practical design options, we help you unlock real, measurable value from your site — whether that’s through increased floor area, improved unit mix, or more marketable design features.
What it involves
Peer review is a methodical, independent analysis of your emerging design or an already consented scheme. Our aim is to determine whether it truly offers the best possible solution for your particular site — balancing design quality, functionality, commercial viability, and planning context.
How it adds value
A peer review offers an objective, expert perspective on your emerging design or consented scheme, asking whether it truly makes the most of your site’s potential. This process fosters a cross-pollination of ideas and insights by bringing fresh eyes and diverse industry experience to the table. It can reveal untapped opportunities — such as improving site efficiency, enhancing design quality, increasing commercial yield, or strengthening the case for planning approval.
What it involves
From initial concept to tested design options, we help you unlock the full potential of your site. By collaborating early to define the brief and exploring tailored feasibility studies, we ensure your project vision aligns with planning policy, market demand, and practical delivery. This approach helps you select the best-performing design strategy, reducing risk and adding value from the outset.
How it adds value
By preparing new design schemes from scratch and exploring early feasibility studies, we help you make confident, well-informed decisions about your project. This approach reduces risk before major investment, aligns your vision with planning and market realities, and identifies the most commercially viable option for your site. The result is a design strategy that not only looks good on paper, but delivers real value — streamlining approvals, saving time, and setting your project up for long-term success.
For architects
What it involves
We can offer architects greater context and more in-depth insight into key development drivers beyond aesthetics and form, and enable informed and smart decisions to be made through the design process.
How it adds value
We complement an architect’s creative and technical capabilities by adding strategic, financial, market, and project delivery perspectives. This collaboration strengthens the architect’s proposals, ensuring the design not only inspires but also performs — economically, functionally, and socially.
What it involves
We can support you from the earliest stages of a project by helping to explore initial design options. Our team prepares site capacity studies and preliminary masterplans to establish potential development areas on a given plot using our insight of development economics and planning to create robust and considered proposals.
How it adds value
Using our development experience, we can quickly test and shape concepts, quickly homing in on options that are most feasible and help you provide your clients with the key information they need, quickly.
What it involves
Peer review is a methodical, independent analysis of your emerging design or an already consented scheme. Our aim is to determine whether it truly offers the best possible solution for your particular site — balancing design quality, functionality, commercial viability, and planning context from our dual perspective.
How it adds value
A peer review offers an objective, expert perspective on your emerging design or consented scheme, asking whether it truly makes the most of your site’s potential. This process fosters a cross-pollination of ideas and insights by bringing fresh eyes and diverse industry experience to the table.
What it involves
Our experience in both architectural practice and development, means we are acutely aware how resource planning is no simple feat when aspiring for alignment with a fluctuating workflow. We can help out on a flexible basis and become part of the team rather than an external consultant — attending design workshops, client meetings, and internal reviews, providing immediate input to accelerate the design process and decision-making - whatever you need.
How it adds value
We offer an embedded, senior-level strategic resource that helps you design more boldly, present more convincing proposals, applying a developer’s lens to test the commercial viability of design options, helping ensure propo
For local authorities
What it involves
We provide local authorities with independent, methodical peer reviews of emerging designs prepared by their appointed teams. Drawing on our combined design and development experience, we assess whether a proposal genuinely offers the best possible solution for the site.
How it adds value
We can provide local authorities an expert, objective perspective that helps ensure proposals genuinely meet policy aims and local priorities — while remaining practical and commercially realistic.
What it involves
We can work with you to explore and define the development potential of specific sites or wider areas. This includes preparing site capacity studies that test different development scenarios, densities, and land use mixes to see what could realistically be achieved on a site.
How it adds value
Drawing on our dual background in design and development, we help local authorities make evidence-based, confident decisions about how sites could be unlocked and developed.
What it involves
We provide independent design advice to local authorities at key stages of the planning and design process. This includes reviewing and critiquing emerging development proposals; advising planning officers and design teams on the strengths and weaknesses of schemes; suggesting practical and constructive design improvements; and guiding projects towards achieving higher design quality.
How it adds value
Our design advisory services are rooted in both design expertise and real-world development insight, we help local authorities go beyond assessing projects purely on aesthetics and form.
