We develop Strategic Outline Business Cases, Outline Business Cases and Full Business Cases, shaping and articulating compelling investment objectives. Our work aligns with HM Treasury’s Green Book and Better Business Case guidance, but we adapt our methods to suit different projects, using innovative, evidence-led techniques to capture value.
We support applications for proposed offices, life sciences and R&D schemes. We establish the commercial needs case using data to evidence the economic importance of a sector and drawing on policy priorities. We quantify a schemes' expected jobs, Gross Value Added, tax and worker spending benefits.
Our economic analyses often require detailed data models. We build complex economic models across a range of projects, applying our skills with tools like Python, R and Excel, and enhancing modelling capabilities through AI. Our reports transparently lay out our model methodology and assumptions.
We establish plans for achieving sustainable growth in an area, utilising scenario modelling and best practice examples to ensure deliverability and achievability of recommendations. We establish the economic and employment land need, adhering to Planning Practice Guidance but going further to establish policy-led aspirational demand scenarios.
We measure the impacts of delivered interventions and produce a return on investment. We accord with HM Treasury’s Green Book and Magenta Book, go beyond guidance where required and capture both monetisable and non-monetisable impacts. We draw out lessons learned from delivery to improve the efficiency of future schemes.
We support applications for proposed schemes across restaurants, hotels, theme parks, culture, sport and tourism. We establish the importance of tourism and leisure to the economy, estimate visitor spend, footfall, vibrancy and regeneration benefits, and assess town centre impacts from schemes in out-of-centre locations.
We provide socio-economic support for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects requiring a DCO application. We prepare socio-economic and health chapters, employment and skills strategies, and community benefits frameworks. We support clients from early assessment through to examination, aligning with planning and policy requirements.
We advise clients in Section 106 contributions in affordable workspace, affordable housing and employment and skills. We prepare detailed and robust statement of case and proof of evidence reports. Our Partners give evidence at public inquiry, expertly laying out the economic case and potential benefits of regeneration and infrastructure.
We support applications for proposed schemes across market residential, build to rent, student, co-living and affordable homes. We establish need through data analysis and policy priorities. We quantify a scheme’s contribution towards housing targets and residential spend benefits, and assess the implications of a scheme for social infrastructure.
We help establish value beyond financial returns. We use data, policy and consultation to identify local needs and ensure that initiatives are align to that need. We have a particular focus on using the built environment to deliver opportunities for jobs, upskilling and training.
We specialise in developing innovative, bespoke methodologies in transport economics that go beyond standard guidance to capture and quantify a holistic range of scheme impacts. This is always underpinned by a deep and robust understanding of the Department for Transport’s Transport Analysis Guidance (TAG).
