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Practice Profile

Keppie Planning & Development was established in 1991 and offers a comprehensive solution to planning and development issues over the entire spectrum of development activity throughout the UK, and is highly experienced in dealing with a wide range of planning issues from initial appraisals and assessments through to major appeal work and masterplanning exercises.

In our role as planners we are required to lead the consultant team to pull the disciplines together, ensuring that their work is focused, on the central planning objective. Within this framework we are often responsible for reporting to the client at regular strategy meetings to discuss tactics, advise on procedure, review progress and take instruction.

We pride ourselves on the number of loyal Clients we retain and the strong business relationships we have based on trust, mutual respect and collaboration.

Ethos

A key aim of town planning is the creation of environments where people can thrive. Successful town planning is therefore seen as the management of sustainable growth and the creation of places where people actually choose to live and work.

To achieve this aim, town planning must ensure the conscious control of new development within cities, towns, villages and landscapes over time. Town planning must also assess how people and communities could be affected by development and ensure that all considerations, e.g. social, economic, cultural and ecological are given due attention in the decision making process.

For over 150 years Keppie has been noted for practical and innovative thinking, seeking a ‘people-focused’ approach. Conscious of our long pedigree, our solutions have always sought to instill enduring qualities to our projects to produce a legacy for future generations as well as the current one. Today we call this sustainability.

Best Practice

Keppie work on a wide range of projects including some of the highest profile schemes in the UK to small domestic scale developments and act for a range of public and private sector Clients including; local authorities, landowners, investors and developers.

Rigorous analysis is critical to understanding the way in which places work in order to provide competent, quality design solutions. The depth of understanding of the town planning process and planning law, along with our performance gives our Clients confidence in our ability to deliver results.

In all cases, it is our objective to apply best practice of adding value to our Client’s development proposals. The range of services available from our planning and development team includes the following areas:

• Advice on, and submission of, all forms of town planning applications

• Town planning and Development Appraisals

• Town planning Appeals and Inquiries

• Environmental Impact Assessment co-ordination

• Development advice

• Redevelopment and Urban Regeneration

• Negotiations, Consultations and Community Engagement

• Sequential Testing

• Masterplanning

• Section 75 & 106 negotiations

• Development and Design Briefs

• Development Promotion: Development Plan Monitoring and Representations.

We are a modern forward thinking practice which is committed to providing a creative, innovative and deliverable product for our clients.

www.keppiedesign.co.uk