Urban Planning

“We call ourselves the advance guard of BDP, we’re there to understand and promote great places through ambitious yet deliverable plans, strategies and development advice.” Francis Glare, Chair of BDP’s Planning Studio

BDP’s Planning Studio provides a comprehensive urban planning service across the UK and internationally. Our range of experience is therefore unique; as well as devising planning strategies to deliver complex planning solutions for development proposals, we also prepare urban strategies, masterplans and development frameworks, and formulate planning policies.  This allows us to shape viable development solutions and deliver inspiring and high quality places, spaces and buildings.

Our clients include the public and private sectors, and a range of landowners, developers, investors and occupiers, and our broad project experience covers all areas of the planning system and all stages of the development process.

BDP’s Planning Studio provides the following core services:

  • Urban Regeneration
  • Strategic Spatial Planning
  • Planning Policy Documents
  • Community Engagement
  • Planning Applications and S106 negotiations
  • Environmental & Sustainability
  • Appeals and Inquiries
  • Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Heritage advice
  • Planning Site Appraisals
  • Research and Best Practice

For more information contact BDP Planning Directors Tessa O’Neill, London and Andrew Teage, Manchester.