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Planning Consultants
The private side of the planning system: strategy, applications and appeals. What planning consultants do and who is hiring.
Knowledge
Working in planning consultancy.
Planning consultants are the private side of the planning system. They advise developers, landowners and design teams on applications, appeals and site promotion, and many learned the system inside local authorities before moving across.
The work sits upstream of design: strategy, policy argument and negotiation shape what a scheme can be before the drawings start. For planners, consultancy offers variety and pace; for architects, a good planning consultant is often the difference between consent and refusal.
This hub gathers the live picture for planning consultancy: who is hiring, which firms are growing, and the conversations shaping the sector right now.
- Advice is the product
Consultants advise on applications, appeals and plan promotion, often for competing interests.
- Insider knowledge
Many consultants are former local authority planners who know the system from inside.
- Upstream of design
They work alongside architects from feasibility onwards, shaping strategy before design.
Roles
Roles in planning consultants.
Each role hub carries live jobs, people and salary guidance for that title.
Learn
Learn about planning consultants.
- PodcastFrom Designs to Developments: Greg Blaquiere's Planning JourneyThe Architecture Social PodcastListen
- PodcastJohn Snow - Move aside the King in the North! This is the Prince of Planning!The Architecture Social PodcastListen
- GuideWorking With Planning Consultants: A CPD for ArchitectsCPD guide from the podcastRead
- GuideHow Planning Consultants Work With Architects, ft. John Snow at Tetrick PlanningCPD guide from the podcastRead
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