Operating across all sectors, our aim as town planning consultants is to proactively support our clients with commercial town planning advice. Our expertise is enhanced by Knight Frank’s market intelligence, exceptional research function and market leading geospatial capabilities.
Our Knight Frank Planning Teams operate from bases in London, Birmingham and Bristol. The UK’s ‘planning system’ remains complex, we anticipate the pitfalls and will help our clients navigate the planning process as smoothly as possible. The nucleus of our Team has a shared track record, working together for many years prior to joining Knight Frank. This collaborative spirit ensures that we apply the right expertise to the right projects and applying our collective experience and a commercial approach to solving often complex planning challenges and focusing on deliverable outcomes whilst minimising risk for the client.
The Planning Team sits distinct from but complementary to the Residential and Commercial Divisions of Knight Frank’s UK Business. We collaborate with our Knight Frank Land and Development teams to facilitate bringing sites to market. However, we pride ourselves on impartial professional advice always in the best interests of our clients be they landowners, occupiers or investors.
We cover all aspects of Town Planning including:
- Planning applications (all types including amendments, reserved matters, Listed Building Consent, change of use, permitted development rights)
- Pre-acquisition due diligence and feasibility
- Site planning appraisals
- Planning strategies and risk assessments
- Asset protection/enhancement strategies incl. portfolio review
- Local Plan monitoring and policy representations
- Site identification and land promotion through the local plan process
- Project management and design team co-ordination to support planning application preparation
- Positive dialogue and correspondence with Planning Officers and wider stakeholders
- Negotiating and discharging planning conditions & S.106 legal agreements
- Planning appeals, expert witnesses, call-ins, examination in public and land tribunals
Core Sectors:
- Residential Development
- Residential Investment Sectors (BTR / PBSA / co-living / Senior Living and Care)
- Hotels
- Estate Regeneration / Affordable Housing
- Strategic land promotion
- New towns/garden villages
- Life Science, Business parks and offices
- Industrial and logistics
- Retail/town centres
- Commercial Asset Repurposing