BETTER DECISIONS
FOR housing, retail, commercial, industrial, transport, schools, childcare, cities, towns, communities and rural places
BACKED BY EVIDENCE.

Establishing who is here, what already exists and what is missing.

• Social infrastructure audits

  Map existing community, health, sports and civic facilities against population and identify the gaps.

• Childcare capacity and demand

  Assess creche and pre-school supply against current and projected child yield for a scheme or area.

• School demand assessments

  Project primary and post-primary place demand from the housing pipeline and demographic change.

• Population and household projections

  Build small-area population, household and age-cohort projections from CSO and local inputs.

• Demographic profiling

  Establish who lives and works in an area, and how that has shifted between censuses.

• Catchment and accessibility analysis

  Measure what people can reach on foot, by bike and by public transport, and who is left out.

• Land use and zoning audits

  Systematic review of zoned land, its status, constraints and realistic deliverability.

• Housing supply pipeline monitoring

  Track permissions, commencements and completions to show what is actually coming forward.

• Vacancy and dereliction analysis

  Quantify vacant and derelict stock and identify reuse and regeneration candidates.

• Employment and floorspace baselines

  Establish the current stock, occupancy and distribution of employment floorspace.

• Retail health checks

  Assess vitality and viability of a town centre using footfall, occupancy and mix indicators.

• Open space and recreation audits

  Measure provision, quality and accessibility of parks, playing pitches and amenity space.

• Community surveys

  Design, run and analyse resident surveys to capture experience and priorities.

• Stakeholder and focus group research

  Structured panels grounding quantitative analysis in local knowledge.

Testing what a proposed change would actually do.

• Retail impact assessments

  Quantify trade diversion and vitality effects, including the sequential approach.

• Hotel and short-stay concentration studies

  Measure existing tourist accommodation density and assess the effect of further provision.

• Housing need and demand assessment

  HNDA-consistent analysis of tenure, affordability and household need.

• Economic and employment impact

  Estimate construction and operational jobs, output and wider economic effects.

• Fiscal and financial impact analysis

  Model the revenue and cost consequences of development for the public purse.

• Development viability appraisal

  Test whether a scheme stacks up under given policy, cost and value assumptions.

• Cost benefit analysis

  Compare options against a common economic framework for investment decisions.

• Socio-economic impact assessment

  Assess distributional and community effects, including for EIAR chapters.

• Capacity and constraints assessment

  Establish how much development a place can absorb and what limits it.

• Business cases and investment appraisal

  Prepare strategic and detailed business cases to public sector appraisal standards.

• Programme and policy evaluation

  Assess whether an intervention delivered what it promised, and why.

Turning evidence into a direction that can be acted on.

• Development plan evidence bases

  Assemble the analysis underpinning core strategy, zoning and settlement hierarchy.

• Local area plan analytics

  Provide the demographic, economic and capacity evidence for LAP preparation and review.

• Settlement capacity and growth options

  Test alternative distributions of growth against infrastructure, service and land supply.

• Housing strategies

  Set out how tenure, typology and affordability needs will be met across a plan area.

• Town centre and regeneration strategies

  Evidence-led strategies for centres, aligned to Town Centre First.

• Retail and commercial strategies

  Establish the scale, form and location of future retail and commercial provision.

• Employment land strategies

  Determine how much employment land is needed, where, and of what type.

• Investment prioritisation

  Rank competing interventions against need, deliverability and impact.

• Scenario and sensitivity modelling

  Show how conclusions shift under different growth, cost and policy assumptions.

• Policy options development and analysis

  Generate and test policy choices, then set out the trade-offs between them.

• Infrastructure funding and value capture

  Assess development contributions and land value capture mechanisms.

• Expert evidence and oral hearings

  Present and defend analysis at appeal, oral hearing or tribunal.

Work that outlives the report — dashboards, models and datasets you keep.

• Interactive dashboards

  Live, browser-based tools that let clients interrogate the evidence themselves.

• Spatial data products

  Reusable, maintained datasets and indices built for a client or a sector.

• Interactive mapping and web visualisation

  Publish analysis as maps and visuals the public and members can actually read.

• Bespoke modelling

  Custom statistical, spatial and economic models built for a specific question.

• Monitoring frameworks

  Indicator sets and reporting that track a plan or strategy after adoption.

• Data audit and capability review

  Assess an organisation's data holdings and analytical capacity, and recommend improvements.

• Training and workshops

  Short courses and knowledge-sharing sessions for planning and executive teams.