Headline Sponsors

Carrington West

Carrington West
Carrington West is an award-winning recruitment company providing high caliber talent to the UK town planning industry. We recruit interim, temporary, and permanent professionals from entry to board level across multiple disciplines for private and public sector organisation's. Our dedicated national town planning recruitment team service cross-sector clients such as local authorities, private SMEs, multi-discipline consultancies and developers across the UK. Within these companies we recruit professional town planning experts covering every area of town planning, including development management and consents, planning policy, planning enforcement, regeneration, conservation, and urban design.
Website: www.carringtonwest.com

CBRE

CBRE
CBRE’s Planning team comprises of town planners, economists, regeneration experts, development surveyors and environmental specialists. This blend of skills, together with our ability to draw on the expertise of our other real estate expertise across CBRE, enables us to take a ‘holistic’ approach to the advice we give, to identify opportunities that others may miss, and understand how to successfully unlock complex sites of various scales through all stages of the planning process, acting for public and private sectors.

Landmark Chambers

Landmark Chambers
Landmark Chambers is ranked by the legal directories as the UK’s top barristers set for planning law. Our planning group is 68-strong, led by 25 silks.
Working throughout the UK, Europe and internationally, our work covers all sectors of planning, including housing, retail, commercial, leisure, transport, energy, major infrastructure, regeneration, minerals, and waste. Our expertise in public, property, environmental and EU law makes us uniquely placed to advise on the many planning matters that overlap in these areas.
Plenary Sponsors

Lendlease

Lendlease
Lendlease (www.lendlease.com) is a globally integrated real estate group with operations in Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States. We create places where communities thrive. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Lendlease has approximately 7,800 employees globally. Our operating segments are Investments, Development and Construction. The combination of these gives us a sustainable competitive advantage in delivering world class developments. Lendlease are Birmingham City Council’s appointed Joint Venture partner to deliver the Smithfield Birmingham regeneration project.

Mott Macdonald

Mott Macdonald
Mott MacDonald is a multidisciplinary consultancy driven by improving social outcomes in all we do. Our town planning team works to respond to the needs of our clients to create inclusive and sustainable places and infrastructure that work in harmony with the environment. We manage the preparation, submission, and negotiation of planning applications across the UK, covering master planning, urban design, and environmental services, across all aspects including landscape architecture, flood risk and heritage.
Breakout Session Sponsors

Carter Jonas

Carter Jonas
Carter Jonas is a multi-disciplinary property partnership, intent on helping clients realise their goals and aspirations by providing ‘simply better property advice’. Throughout our Planning and Development team, we focus on providing comprehensive, commercially astute, and results-driven advice, and strive to add value across all service areas. We offer shrewd, forward-thinking solutions delivered by professionals with a passion for property and the expertise and experience to back it up.
www.carterjonas.co.uk

Muse

Muse
Nationwide placemaker, Muse, has almost 40 years of experience creating mixed-use communities across the UK.
We have a track record of leading complex, area-wide regeneration projects, and the experience to accelerate new neighbourhoods, with the emphasis on delivery, quality, and sustainability. We’re working with partners in 40 places across the UK, with close to 2,500 new homes and 800,000 sq ft of workspace currently on site and a gross development value of over £1.3bn.
museplaces.com

Quod

Quod
Quod is a specialist, independent and employee-owned consultancy, advising on all aspects of planning, development economics, socio-economics and environmental planning based in London and Leeds.
Our focus on delivering the right outcomes has earned us the privilege of working with a wide range of brilliant clients on some of the most exciting projects in the country. This has helped us to recruit and retain some of the very best people in the industry.

Savills

Savills
Savills is the largest planning consultancy in the UK, with over 350 members operating from 23 offices across the principal regional markets. We deliver planning solutions that maximise the value of our clients’ property assets, taking into account the planning policy context, technical and environmental factors, local community considerations and overall sustainability. We provide a range of specialist services to ensure the highest standard of advice in all aspects of the planning process.

Shoosmiths

Shoosmiths
With one of the largest multi-disciplinary real estate and planning practices in the UK located across 13 different offices, Shoosmiths has the dual benefit of both being immersed in our regions and able to bring the depth of expertise required to advise on some of the most significant and innovative schemes happening in UK real estate. Our lawyers understand the nuances of our local markets and, importantly, are then able to use this knowledge to inform the delivery of developments in all regions for a roster of regional, national and international clients. Recognised as a top 5 team in the Planning Law Survey 2021 and winner of Legal Team of the Year at Property Week’s RESI Awards 2020 and 2021, our team works with commercial and residential developers, investors, retail and leisure operators, social housing bodies, major corporate occupiers, banks and other funders and a range of public sector bodies.
Exhibition Sponsors

Brookbanks

Brookbanks
We’re facilitators of major development and infrastructure projects.
Our services are provided by our highly skilled teams to navigate even the most complex of projects.
We’ll always strive to deliver the Brookbanks’ difference, innovating and driving every project with the aim of maximising value creation and minimising development costs for our clients’ benefit.
Find out more at www.Brookbanks.com

Penguin Recruitment

Penguin Recruitment
The Town Planning team at Penguin Recruitment has had an established presence in the market since 2008 and is widely accepted as one of the UK’s most experienced and successful recruiters in the sector. We cover all areas of planning and the related disciplines such as; heritage, urban design and economics. We place 75-100 Graduate / Assistant Planners a year so if you are a ‘young planner’ looking for a new role, call Penguin Recruitment!

Fisher German

Fisher German
With a heritage dating back to 1830, Fisher German LLP is a national firm of chartered surveyors and specialist property consultants offering a wide range of professional services in all aspects of land and property management. We understand property and make it our priority to understand our clients. Our expert teams help businesses prosper by building long term relationships, listening, and delivering exceptional service, every time. Our people make us who we are today.
Study Tour Sponsors

ARUP

ARUP
Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants, and technical specialists offering a range of professional services.
Founded in 1946, Arup has more than 18,000 people working in 94 offices in 34 countries and projects in over 130 countries.
We provide the engineering and related consultancy services necessary to every stage of the project, from inception to completion and after. These are available to clients singly or in combination, to suit particular circumstance of the job.
www.arup.com

Howells

Howells
Howells is an award-winning design studio, driven by the ambition to enrich lives and positively transform places through its work. The practice constantly explores how to create long-term sustainable communities and a healthier future for our cities. Howells has built a reputation for its collaborative approach, underpinned by clear, strategic and intelligent thinking. It has delivered innovative, high-quality buildings across all sectors, and its masterplans are transforming large parts of the UK’s biggest cities.
www.howells.uk

Lambert Smith Hampton

Lambert Smith Hampton
Acting out of our London and regional offices, our Planning, Regeneration + Infrastructure team can help identify, appraise, unlock and maximise the development potential and investment, environmental and social value of complex urban and rural sites and buildings. Our professional team comprises over 100 specialist town planners and surveyors, development consultants, urban designers & masterplanners, town centre regeneration experts, economists, compulsory purchase / land assembly advisers, transport & infrastructure specialists, and dedicated public sector consultants.
www.lsh.co.uk

Turley

Turley
Turley is a full service planning and development consultancy.
Turley’s Planning expertise is complemented by Business Cases and Funding, Design, Economics, EIA, Expert Witness, Heritage, Townscape and Landscape, Strategic Communications and Sustainability services. All services can be provided together or individually.
Turley helps clients achieve good growth in all jurisdictions in the UK and Ireland from their locations in major cities and growth areas.
Turley brings deep thinking, smart strategy and expert delivery.
Website: https://www.turley.co.uk/
Event Sponsors

CarneySweeney

CarneySweeney
CarneySweeney is a fully independent town planning consultancy that is proud of its ability to deliver dynamic and tailored commercial planning advice. We are trusted advisors who are passionate about what we do and the projects we work on, operating from Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter and London.

Delta Planning

Delta Planning
Delta Planning is a client focused independent town planning consultancy delivering a highly commercial and personalised service, combined with integrity, care and professionalism.
Delta Planning operates across a of range of sectors with a particular track record in the Industrial/Logistics, Residential and Education markets. Delta has an impressive track record of managing complex major planning applications including the project management of EIAs, and successful promotion of strategic land.

Terence O'Rourke

Terence O'Rourke
tor&co is a planning, design and environmental consultancy with a human focus. People are at the centre of every project and through collaboration with clients, other professionals and communities, tor&co helps deliver challenging and inspiring projects across every sector, helping to make a long-lasting economic, environmental and social legacy by arriving at better outcomes for people and the planet.
Lanyard Sponsor

Pegasus Group

Pegasus Group
Pegasus Group is a leading development consultancy offering full development lifecycle expertise bringing innovative thinking to create beautiful places which enhance the built and natural environment.
No matter the project, no matter the challenge you can rely on us to find solutions, get things done, and to make sure that you are always moving towards success – whatever your goal. We make sure that everything we do for you is Expertly Done.
Gala Dinner Sponsors

Waterman

Waterman
Waterman Group is a multidisciplinary consultancy providing sustainable solutions to meet the planning, engineering design and project delivery needs of the property, infrastructure, environment, and energy markets.
Founded in 1952, the company has since grown into a leading engineering and environmental consultancy with offices throughout the UK, Australia, and Ireland. Waterman works with government agencies, local authorities, government-regulated industries, and private sector clients to provide innovative, sustainable, and economic solutions across a wide spectrum of business activities.
The company has extensive experience in property and buildings, environmental consultancy, power and energy, roads, highways and rail infrastructure, urban and regional planning.
Award winning teams provide professional consultancy services throughout the complete life cycle of the asset starting from initial surveys and concept planning, through to design, delivery, project management, supervision, and on-going maintenance.

Lichfields

Lichfields
Lichfields has been at the forefront of planning and development consultancy since the company was founded in 1962. It is the UK’s longest-established independent planning and development consultancy. In May 2023 the Company won ‘Consultancy Practice of the Year’ at the industry-leading Property Week Resi Awards; and in 2022 it won the ‘Consultancy of the Year’ award at the inaugural UKREiiF Awards. Lichfields’ operates as an Employee Benefit Trust from nine offices across the UK. It offers a comprehensive range of planning and development services. Its clients include developers, landowners and operators as well as local authorities and government bodies.

RCA Regeneration
Welcome Reception Drinks Sponsor

RCA Regeneration
Welcome Reception Drinks Sponsor
RCA Regeneration Limited are a planning and development consultancy based in Worcestershire and Norfolk, operating nationwide. We offer planning and development support including planning applications and appeals, development viability and appraisals, strategic planning, S106 and affordable housing, neighbourhood planning, Red Book valuations, market assessments and grant funding. We work for major housebuilders and developers, registered providers, local authorities, parish and town councils, government agencies, charities and landowners and provide a highly responsive service.

Hayfield
Wine sponsor

Hayfield
Wine sponsor
Hayfield was formed in 2015 when its founders set out to deliver more meaningful and higher calibre homes than the volume housebuilders. The outstanding quality of Hayfield’s eco-focused developments are increasing standards industry-wide and exceeding the hopes and aspirations of those who choose to own a Hayfield home. Having defined the art of homemaking, the company has been honoured to receive the highest accolade in the homebuilding industry – Housebuilder of the Year – at the 2021 WhatHouse? Awards.
See more at https://www.hayfieldhomes.co.uk/