The planning process places a significant burden on developers and it’s often an adversarial, lonely and confusing experience.

It’s become more complex: with new planning legislation, increased economic pressures and a fractious political dynamic in the South East. Plus, local communities are becoming more actively involved in planning, people have higher expectations for sustainability. All this increases the risk of delays for planning applications or worse, that developers might commit themselves to building outdated, inappropriate and undesirable schemes.