25+ years of trusted socio-economic expertise.
We are a market leading consultancy delivering services across the UK. We are experts in understanding how regeneration and infrastructure projects affect economies and communities.
Our work has underpinned many of the country’s largest projects, helping clients win funding, planning consent and public support.
We combine deep policy insight with advanced data analytics to create rigorous, compelling and accessible methodologies that stand up to scrutiny. The result is expertise our clients can act on with confidence.
Business Areas
We are a leading socio-economic consultancy for development and planning.
We guide developers through the planning process, from initial vision-setting and pre-application, through application submission and implementing planning obligations, to expert witness support at public inquiries.
We help establish the case for national infrastructure and support major planning applications.
We establish the case for major infrastructure across transport, energy and commercial sectors. We support developers through all stages of major project applications including Development Consent Orders (DCOs) for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).
We help clients understand their areas, make the case for investment, and plan effectively for the future.
We author business cases and funding applications and work with local authorities, local councils and other public bodies to produce forward-looking strategies including economic strategies, skills strategies and economic needs assessments. We carry out evaluations — particularly impact evaluations — to assess the effectiveness of programmes and draw out lessons learned for future delivery.
