Strategic plan making advice for complex plans and major development areas.
Plan In works with developers, landowners, planning agents and local planning authorities involved in Local Plans and strategic development across England.
The gap between how Local Plans are supposed to work and how they actually get made is where most of the important decisions happen.
Evidence points in different directions. Programmes lose momentum. Organisations with a stake in the same growth area reach different conclusions about what the evidence means and what the plan should do. Sometimes the work has simply not yet begun and no one is quite certain where to start.
Plan In works in those situations. The starting point is always the same: understand the strategic issue clearly, work through what the evidence actually supports, and identify what needs to happen for the plan or programme to move forward. The aim is to help organisations understand the choices in front of them and act on them with confidence.
Typical problems
A strategic site sits awkwardly within an emerging spatial strategy and the evidence appears to point in different directions.
A developer or planning agent wants an independent assessment of how a major site genuinely fits within a Local Plan, including where the risks sit and how the plan is likely to develop.
A growth area involves multiple organisations with different interests and the conversation between them is producing no useful progress.
A Local Plan programme has lost momentum and needs clear strategic direction to recover.
A plan is approaching examination and the underlying strategic logic needs testing before it gets there.
An authority wants to start a plan but the right first step is not clear.