Architecture & Interiors
Our design team’s experience spans a variety of sectors and encompasses skilled professionals in architecture, architectural technology, landscape architecture, interior design, visualisation and animation. Working holistically with our clients, we produce innovative, functional and sustainable buildings that are thoughtfully designed to work in synergy with the surrounding environment.
Adopting RIBA stages 0-7, our service begins with conceptual analysis and sketch development, through to creation of technical designs and drawings followed by construction and delivery of a project. This means consistency and quality is intrinsic throughout.
Working concurrently with our architectural teams, our interior design experts ensure the same attention to detail is given to internal spaces, ensuring they are well thought-out, inclusive and fit for purpose. Each scheme is entirely bespoke and designed to strike the right balance of style, substance, flexibility and future-proofing.
This combined ethos of creativity, excellence and longevity has resulted in the team winning a multitude of awards for design, conservation, use of materials and regeneration.
Placemaking & Urbanism
Our placemaking and urbanism team includes experts in masterplanning, urban design, planning, landscape architecture and visualisation. Working nationwide, our vision is to create sustainable urban environments that are socially, culturally and economically inclusive.
Drawing on the expertise of our multi-disciplinary team as well as specialist consultants in transport design, ecology and heritage, our approach is to work collaboratively to understand aspirations, harness local knowledge, context and characteristics to imagine, design and deliver new communities.
Our experience encompasses public and private sector work and specifically focuses on:
Masterplanning
Regeneration strategies
Stakeholder engagement
Strategic development plans
Urban landscapes/public realms
Planning Consultancy
Our planning team is widely experienced in the property and development sector, with the vision and knowledge to successfully navigate the planning process. Having developed strong working relationships with housebuilders, developers and registered providers, our planning consultants are able to offer strategic advice and consultancy including:
Planning and Development Appraisals
Local Plan Representations
Planning Applications
Retail Sequential Test
Flood Sequential Test
Health Impact Assessments
Design and Access Statements
Discharge of Planning Conditions
S106 Negotiations
Public Consultations
Appeals
CIL Advice
Acting as part of the design team from the outset, we can manage the entire planning process from initial pre-application discussions through to submission and determination of the application. Adopting a holistic approach, we undertake crucial research and draw upon local and national policy guidelines to ensure viable and thoughtful proposals. This has resulted in us achieving significant planning successes in a number of sectors.
Project Management & Cost Consultancy
Our project management and cost consultancy team has longstanding experience on large scale construction projects across the UK. Our aim is to deliver flexible and fully integrated programme and cost management across a project’s entire lifecycle, helping our clients save time, money and resources. With comprehensive, up-to-date knowledge of labour, materials and plant costs, we ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Our services include:
Asset management
Buyer’s Agent/Purchaser’s Agent
Clerk of Works/Quality Control
Contract administration
Dispute resolution
Employer’s Agent
Feasibility and viability appraisals
Procurement and contract strategy
Project and programme management
Project monitoring and auditing
Risk and value management
Strategic cost planning and cost management
Value engineering
Working across the private and public sector, our fully qualified experts are committed to providing a consistent and co-ordinated service, encouraging collaboration across the delivery teams to reduce risk and drive efficiencies.
Health & Safety Consultancy
Ensuring safety and compliancy are key priorities on any project. We understand that appointing the right individuals or companies is fundamental to success and our experts are fully trained to ensure the supply chain manages risk appropriately from the design phases, during construction and through to occupation. We guarantee legislative and statutory requirements are strictly adhered to as well as providing specialist advice and support to promote a positive health and safety culture throughout the whole life of a project.
Our services include:
Client Advisor Role
Health & Safety Audits
Principal Designer Assistant
Principal Designer (CDM 2015)
Our approach is to work in tandem with the whole project team to ensure a robust health and safety strategy is co-ordinated from the outset, meaning any foreseeable risks are managed and kept to a minimum
Land & Property
Working nationwide, our land and property team utilises its extensive network of contacts to bring together landowners and developers, identifying viable urban and rural sites and securing best value for all parties.
We consider land with a variety of premises including:
virgin sites;
consented schemes;
agricultural;
sites with pending or refused planning applications.
Together with our in-house planning consultants, we undertake all due diligence including identifying ownerships and ability/willingness to sell/buy, site history, potential uses and constraints before offering bespoke advice to suit geographical and size requirements. If a deal is to proceed, we can then provide further feasibility studies and planning guidance to facilitate development.