Planning for logistics and manufacturing is core to our business and has been for over 25 years, demonstrating that employment growth is essential to compliment housing to provide job opportunities on people’s doorsteps. Indeed, without the provision of appropriate logistics and manufacturing a place and our modern lives will simply not function. This has resulted in us being involved in the realisation of some 11,000,000ft2 of commercial logistics and manufacturing floorspace. We use our experience of strategic planning to ensure that the locations are optimised, and we employ our team’s effective development management skills to ensure that ideas are delivered from vision, to outline, to reserved matters to the discharge of the last condition.

The past decade has brought unprecedented challenges for the delivery of this aspect of our work. Global changes in the way we learn, shop, interact with each other and work, set against a backdrop of an ageing population, mean that the demand for power, data, education, health provision, environmentally sustainable design, and the opportunity for new businesses to grow constantly evolves. These seismic changes require us to plan differently and be ahead of the game in order to satisfy the demands of both the global logistics and manufacturing investors and those occupiers we advise. In addition to advising on the direct delivery of logistics and manufacturing facilities today – including internationally recognised beverages, pharmaceuticals, globally leading aerospace, famous automotive brands and the defence sector - we advise on master planning of sites for campuses which are often ‘drip fed’ funding and so robust frameworks need to be provided so decisions taken today do not fetter investment and research and delivery of opportunities in the future.

As one of the leaders in this field of planning, we are well placed to respond to this shifting agenda. Indeed, for many of our clients BREEAM ‘Excellent’ is now standard and we are delivering ‘Outstanding’ to satisfy the corporate objectives of environmentally aware investors and users. Our talented team of planning consultants apply both a detailed knowledge of the legislative system and development management pragmatism, with more than a dash of creativity, to achieve the timely delivery of the essential employment building blocks of modern lifestyles.