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We create clear planning strategies that reduce risk, accelerate delivery and enhance project viability, achieving commercially successful outcomes while creating places that work for communities and stakeholders alike.
Our specialists bring first-hand experience from planning, development and land promotion backgrounds, giving us a deep understanding of the commercial drivers behind investment decisions. This insight is complemented by strong stakeholder engagement expertise, helping clients build positive relationships with local authorities, communities and key decision-makers on individual sites, strategic land and major developments.
Why Choose Brookbanks for Planning
Working with our engineering, environmental, highways and commercial specialists, our planning specialists provide integrated advice that identifies opportunities, resolves constraints and supports informed decision-making at every stage of the development lifecycle.
For complex development projects, we also provide specialist Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) coordination and management. Acting as a central point of coordination between technical specialists, planning authorities and stakeholders, we integrate environmental considerations into project planning from the outset.
Our planning service goes beyond securing consent. We help clients unlock value, de-risk projects and deliver sustainable, commercially successful developments with confidence.
Key Client Benefits
- We help you realise the full potential of your site through strategic planning advice that maximises value, enhances viability and supports successful planning outcomes.
- We reduce risk and increase certainty with expert guidance through planning, environmental and consenting requirements.
- We improve the likelihood of securing consent through well-founded planning strategies, evidence-based assessments and proactive stakeholder engagement.
- We save you time and streamline delivery by coordinating planning, EIA and multidisciplinary technical inputs.
- We help create sustainable, deliverable developments that balance commercial objectives, environmental considerations and community needs.
- Value enhancement is built into our planning strategies, from quicker, smoother consents to proposals that deliver social value, quality places and environmental gain.
Specialist Services
Strategic Planning
Our strategic planning specialists help clients identify opportunities, assess options and promote land through the Local Plan process. Covering site identification, opportunity assessments, masterplan appraisals, phasing strategies and stakeholder engagement, we set a clear direction that protects and grows land value.
Planning Delivery
We lead planning applications of every scale, coordinate Environmental Impact Assessments and negotiate Section 106 obligations. After consent, our specialists manage the discharge of conditions and legal agreements and support clients through planning appeals where needed.
Development Advisory
Our development advisory specialists help clients buy, sell and invest in land with confidence. Acquisition reviews, due diligence, site constraints analysis, viability appraisals and land disposal strategies give a clear view of a site’s potential and value.
Sectors We Support
Our planning specialists support landowners, developers, investors and promoters on opportunities of every scale. Their work ranges from individual sites and single applications to strategic land promotion, new settlements and major developments.
Many of these opportunities are residential-led, where Affordable Housing Statements and Section 106 obligations play a central role. We also bring coordinated planning, environmental and technical input to complex development projects that require an Environmental Impact Assessment.
Talk to Our Planning Specialists
If you are assessing a new opportunity, promoting land or preparing an application, contact a member of our planning team directly or email hello@brookbanks.com and one of our experts will get back to you.
Group Director for Land, Development and Communities
Lee Witts
lee.witts@brookbanks.com
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Group Technical Director, Land, Development and Communities
Dean Swann
dean.swann@brookbanks.com
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FAQs
When should I involve a planning consultant?
As early as possible, ideally before acquiring or committing to a site. Early planning advice clarifies a site’s potential and constraints, informs land value and sets a clear strategy for securing consent.
Do you work on smaller sites as well as strategic land?
Yes. We advise on opportunities of all scales, from individual sites and single applications to strategic land promotion, new settlements and major developments.
Can you help change an existing planning permission?
Yes. We prepare Section 73 applications to vary or remove conditions and Section 96A applications for non-material amendments. We also support the discharge of planning conditions.
Can you manage an Environmental Impact Assessment?
Yes. We coordinate the full EIA process, from screening and scoping requests through to producing and submitting the Environmental Statement. Our specialists work with our own environmental specialists and other technical consultants throughout.