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Expert planning
you can trust
You want to feel completely confident in the critical development desicions you make. We’ll give you that confidence, with pure planning advice to ensure your project reaches its full potential.
We’re an independent planning consultancy based in Manchester, working with developers, housebuilders, architects and designers. We help them deliver the best for the built environment and their clients and investors.
What do you want
from a planning
consultancy?
We don’t want you to simply settle for satisfactory, we want you to expect more.
More development
potential
More planning
opportunities
More room for
profitability
With our specialist support, guidance and help, you can achieve these outcomes.
Clear and undiluted
planning advice
We believe in being transparent, relatable and straightforward. We won’t bamboozle you with jargon or overload you with technical terminology.
You need the clearest possible picture of your planning options and opportunities, and of any potential barriers or threats.
We’ll tell you it straight and we’ll be clear about your choices, and what we can do to ensure your project more than meets expectations.
Our work covers:
- Strategic advice and due diligence
- Site promotion and local plan evidence
- Planning strategies
- Planning frameworks
- Complex planning applications
- Commercial planning permissions
- Brownfield, greenfield and green belt land
- Planning appeals
- Expert planning witness services.
We advise for:
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Residential
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Commercial
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Leisure
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Retail
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Industrial
Testing the limits for you
Boundaries are there to be tested. By testing them, we can explore greater possibilities for your project and work out your best, most positive and profitable planning options.
We discover what’ll work best for you by examining and testing for feasability and asking hard questions to get clear answers.
We examine, determine, negotiate and advocate for your project, ambitions and expectations.
Pure planning advice from independent planning consultants: AshtoneHale