Education and careers

RTPI Learning Partner Profile - Bidwells LLP

Established over 170 years ago, today Bidwells is one of the UK's leading property consultancies. We employ almost 500 people in 11 offices across England and Scotland and provide a full range of services across the Commercial, Residential and Rural sectors.

Our 40 specialist teams focus on helping our clients

Acquire or dispose of assets
Manage and enhance the value of their portfolios
And provide strategic consultancy advice.

Our Planning team has a proven track record of providing problem solving advice to a wide range of clients - from private landowners, to national private and public institutions.

Our highly experienced team has worked on a broad spectrum of developments and the advice we give is based on a deep understanding of local agendas, issues and politics in every local area we work in, as well as a profound awareness of the national context within which planning exists. Clients are therefore guaranteed a service which is focused on delivering the most cost-effective, viable and profitable planning solution for their problem. What we do best is identifying opportunities for clients and ensuring that there is a fully integrated approach to produce cost effective, deliverable and sustainable development.

Our specialist planning consultancy services include:

Consultation/Community involvement
Design and access statements
Environmental Impact assessment
Expert witness
Legal agreements and CIL
Local planning promotion
Planning applications and appeals
Portfolio reviews
Site appraisals
Strategic environmental assessment
Sustainability appraisal.

Training and development highlights

Achieved the Investors in People (IiP) Bronze accreditation
Bidwells recognises progression and development in the widest sense and encourages staff to exploit opportunities for 'on-the-job' training, role shadowing, professional qualifications and formal education courses, technical training and the core skills training required to operate successfully as a business professional.
Formalised, half-yearly performance and development reviews
Specially designed three year Graduate Development Programme