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Planning @ AECOM

AECOM is a new type of integrated multidisciplinary planning consultancy. Our planners, designers, architects, engineers and project managers work with clients and their communities to deliver sustainable growth. We can help clients to steer projects from inception to on-site delivery. Combining the breadth and depth of expertise from AECOM and URS, we offer a comprehensive range of bespoke and targeted planning services, creating value for clients and social benefit for communities. With nearly 130 planning staff operating throughout the UK, we draw on national and international best practice and our premier integrated delivery expertise to secure local planning solutions.

From regenerating cities and creating new communities to managing whole landscapes and designing inspiring public spaces, AECOM’s experts address the complex challenges of our world, shaping a more positive future. We work at all spatial scales - national, regional, city, area and site-specific - to deliver positive, long lasting change.

We are markets leader in:

• Town planning
• Masterplanning / Urban design
• Landscape architecture
• Economic development

Our collaborative and interdisciplinary way of working ensures that we create and plan places that respond sensitively to the context and are grounded in local conditions. Along with innovation and design quality, our work is focused on maximising potential, social inclusion, best value for client and community, enhancing biodiversity and the careful use of natural resources.

AECOM’s town planning team delivers an integrated range of consultancy services to public and private sector clients, developers, landowners and operators across a wide range of sectors. These include infrastructure and transport, residential and commercial property, environmental, water, industrial and renewable energy.

Our approach is a practical one, aimed at the whole development process, from feasibility to implementation. Effective town planning consultancy is the key to achieving successful developments. Skillful interpretation of national, strategic and local planning policy is fundamental to delivering landowner and developer aspirations.

Our planning practice is supported by a comprehensive range of environmental and design skills and is deployed to support plan-making, scheme promotion, achieving consents and enable delivery. We understand our clients’ needs. Our planning specialists have local awareness, good communication skills and relationships with statutory authorities, as well as a full understanding of consenting processes.

AECOM's planners have the skills and experience to manage and promote schemes of all sizes, from small development sites to new communities, major commercial and infrastructure schemes and renewable energy projects. We also provide advice on policy making, engagement and the assessment of plan and scheme viability. A sustainable approach to development is a requirement of international development agencies, national and local governments, banks and private companies. Delivery of sustainable development underlies every aspect of AECOM services. AECOM is now one of the UK's leading consultancies in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Sustainability Appraisal (SA).

With the emphasis on housing delivery within the UK, AECOM offers services to assess Plan and scheme viability. Our teams are able to promote development effectively in Planning and Design terms and also demonstrate that the proposal is, or how it can be made, economically viable.

We have planned, designed, and guided delivery of award-winning new communities, and developed new ways of ensuring that people have access to the social and physical infrastructure that makes great places. Recent and on-going projects in the UK include the award-winning regeneration and masterplanning on London’s Olympic Park and its on-going legacy development, and the North West Cambridge sustainable mixed use urban extension commissioned by the University of Cambridge, and the Barton Park sustainable urban extension in Oxford. AECOM supported Ebbsfleet Development Corporation to deliver the framework masterplan for Ebbsfleet in North Kent, the UK’s first locally-led Garden City for nearly 100 years. Our planners regularly support the delivery of infrastructure projects and played a key role in securing development consents for the award-winning Thames Tideway Tunnel infrastructure scheme. We are supporting Homes England to accelerate housing delivery in many locations across England, including on their flagship project at *Northern Arc, Burgess Hill *in West Sussex.

We have used our UK planning experience to champion spatial planning in other parts of the world, including regions with major economic, social and infrastructure challenges. Our Dubai 2020 Urban Masterplan will guide more sustainable forms of urban growth than the Emirate has seen in the past. Our strategic planning work for Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will provide a visionary and more sustainable framework to guide the long-term development of this rapidly growing city-region.

About AECOM

AECOM is a global provider of professional technical and management support services to a broad range of markets, including transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, water and government.

With approximately 100,000 employees around the world, AECOM is a leader in all of the key markets that it serves. AECOM provides a blend of global reach, local knowledge, innovation and technical excellence in delivering solutions that create, enhance and sustain the world's built, natural and social environments.

A Fortune 500 company, AECOM serves clients in approximately 150 countries. More information on AECOM and its services can be found at www.aecom.com

Local & Strategic Planning: Development Briefs

Local & Strategic Planning: Local Plans

Local & Strategic Planning: Development Plan Monitoring

Local & Strategic Planning: Community Plans

Local & Strategic Planning: Development Plan Representation

Local & Strategic Planning: EIP (Examination in Public)

Local & Strategic Planning: Green Belt

Local & Strategic Planning: Sub-regional Planning

Local & Strategic Planning: Transport Plans

Local & Strategic Planning: Waste Local Plans

Local & Strategic Planning: Statements of Community Involvement

Local & Strategic Planning: Core Strategies

Local & Strategic Planning: Area Development Frameworks

Local & Strategic Planning: Planning Strategies

Local & Strategic Planning: Duty to Cooperate

Local & Strategic Planning: Sustainability Appraisal

Local & Strategic Planning: Sustainability Statements

Local & Strategic Planning: Development Plan - Viability Assessments

Conservation: Characterisation Studies

Conservation: Townscape Impact Analysis

Conservation: Ancient Monuments

Conservation: Archaeology

Conservation: Conservation Areas

Conservation: Ecology

Conservation: Historic Building Restoration

Conservation: Historic Towns / Sites

Conservation: Listed Buildings

Conservation: Rural Conservation

Conservation: Urban Conservation

Conservation: World Heritage Sites

Legal: Appeals

Legal: Public Inquiries

Countryside & Environment: Appropriate Assessment (Habitats Regulations)

Countryside & Environment: Green Belt

Countryside & Environment: Code for Sustainable Homes

Countryside & Environment: Renewable Energy Sources

Countryside & Environment: AONB (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty)

Countryside & Environment: Ecological Surveys

Countryside & Environment: Environmental Impact Assessments

Countryside & Environment: Strategic Environmental Appraisals

Countryside & Environment: Environmental Audits

Countryside & Environment: Environmental Statements

Countryside & Environment: National Parks

Countryside & Environment: Rural Regeneration

Countryside & Environment: Rights of Way

Countryside & Environment: SSSI (Special Sites of Scientific Interest)

Countryside & Environment: Tree Preservation Orders

Countryside & Environment: Visual Impact Assessments

Countryside & Environment: Wind Farms

Countryside & Environment: Wetlands

Countryside & Environment: Wildlife Centres / Trusts

Countryside & Environment: Coastal Planning

Countryside & Environment: Environmental Trusts

Countryside & Environment: Environmental Management Strategies

Countryside & Environment: Countryside Access Strategies

Countryside & Environment: Country Parks

Agriculture: DEFRA - Consultancy Advice

Agriculture: Planning & Development

Agriculture: Estates

Business: Business and Science Parks

Business: Car Parking / Access

Business: Extensions / Alterations of Premises

Business: Lawful Development Certificates

Business: New Premises

Business: Flood Risk Assessments

Business: Offices

Design: Design Layout

Design: Architecture

Design: Implementation

Design: Characterisation Studies

Design: Townscape Impact Analysis

Design: Tall Buildings

Design: Crime Prevention Design

Design: Masterplanning

Design: Urban Design

Economic Development: Inward Investment

Economic Development: Funding Advice

Economic Development: Development Strategies

Economic Development: Funding Applications

Economic Development: Economic Research

Economic Development: Feasibility Studies

Economic Development: Viability Assessment

Economic Development: Community Infrastructure Levy - Evidence Studies

Economic Development: Community Infrastructure Levy - Examination

Neighbourhood & Community Planning: Community and Stakeholder Consultation Events

Neighbourhood & Community Planning: Neighbourhood Development Plans

Neighbourhood & Community Planning: Neighbourhood Development Orders

Neighbourhood & Community Planning: Planning for Real & Trade

Neighbourhood & Community Planning: Public Participation

Neighbourhood & Community Planning: Schools / Community Buildings

Neighbourhood & Community Planning: Village/Town Appraisals

Neighbourhood & Community Planning: Village Design Statements

Health Planning: Health Centres

Health Planning: Hospital

Health Planning: BREEAM Assessments

Housing: Eco-Homes Assessments

Housing: Flood Risk Assessments

Housing: Affordable Housing

Housing: Appeals

Housing: Applications

Housing: Boundaries / Curtilage

Housing: Car Parking

Housing: Housing Needs Studies

Housing: Light Issues

Housing: Objections

Housing: Residential Developments

Housing: Social Housing

Housing: Housing Design Layout

Housing: Viability Assessments

Housing: Local and Strategic Housing Market Assessments

Housing: Code for Sustainable Homes

Industrial: Site Design Layout

Industrial: Heavy Industry

Industrial: Light Industry

Industrial: Minerals / Aggregates / Extraction

Industrial: Mining

Industrial: Nuclear

Industrial: Pollution (Air, Water, Noise)

Industrial: Service Industry

Industrial: Telecommunications

Industrial: Technological Industry

Industrial: Utilities

Industrial: Waste Disposal

Information Technology: Development Control Application Systems

Information Technology: GIS

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Expert Witness

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Planning Gain

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Section 106 Agreements

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Affordable Housing Viability

Probity: Elected Member Training

Overseas: European Planning Systems

Overseas: Other Planning Systems

Overseas: Overseas Planning and Development

Research: Local and Strategic Housing Market Assessments

Research: Housing Needs Assessments

Research: Viability and Planning Assessments and Inquiries

Research: Environmental Impact Assessment

Research: Feasibility Studies

Research: Land Availabiltiy Studies

Research: Research / Surveys

Research: Site Appraisals

Retail: Change of Use

Retail: Markets

Retail: Out of Town Sites

Retail: Retail Impact Studies

Retail: Town Centres

Retail: Town Centre Management

Tourism & Leisure: Golf Courses

Tourism & Leisure: Hotels

Tourism & Leisure: Marinas

Tourism & Leisure: Parks

Tourism & Leisure: Playing Fields

Tourism & Leisure: Stadiums

Tourism & Leisure: Swimming Baths

Tourism & Leisure: Theme Parks

Tourism & Leisure: Tourism

Tourism & Leisure: Wildlife Centres / Zoos

Tourism & Leisure: Sport & Recreational Strategies

Tourism & Leisure: Visitor Management Strategies

Transport: Airports

Transport: Buses / Coach Stations

Transport: Car Parks

Transport: Cycle Ways

Transport: Motorways

Transport: Ports

Transport: Railways

Transport: Roads

Transport: Rivers / Canals / Waterways

Transport: Traffic Management

Transport: Trams

Transport: Transport Impact Studies

Transport: Underground (Tube) Systems

Transport: Travel Plans

Transport: Transport planning and design

Urban Regeneration: Waterfront Sites

Urban Regeneration: Design

Urban Regeneration: Town & City Centre Revitalisation Schemes

Urban Regeneration: Joint Venture Partnerships

Urban Regeneration: Housing Estate Masterplans

Urban Regeneration: Blight

Urban Regeneration: Brownfield Sites

Urban Regeneration: Compulsory Purchases

Urban Regeneration: European Funding

Urban Regeneration: PPP (Public & Private Partnerships)

Minerals & Waste: Waste Disposal

Minerals & Waste: Minerals/Aggregates Extraction

Minerals & Waste: Quarries

Minerals & Waste: Waste Local Plans

Minerals & Waste: Waste Recycling

Minerals & Waste: Waste Minimisation

Minerals & Waste: Oil & Gas Exploration

Minerals & Waste: Landfill

Local Authority Services: Development Management

Local Authority Services: Local Plan Making

Marine: Spatial planning

Marine: Conservation

Marine: Energy

Marine: Land use

Marine: Shipping

Marine: Ports

Renewable Energy: Wind Power

Renewable Energy: Solar Power

Renewable Energy: Tidal Power

Renewable Energy: BREEAM

Renewable Energy: Biomass

Renewable Energy: Geothermal

Renewable Energy: Energy Efficiency

Employment: City Centre Tall Buildings

Employment: Distribution and Warehousing

Employment: Offices

Employment: Impact Tests

Infrastructure: Community Infrastructure Levy - Evidence Studies

Infrastructure: Community Infrastructure Levy - Examination

Infrastructure: Infrastructure Planning for Local Plans

Infrastructure: Health Assessments

Infrastructure: Transport Assessments

Infrastructure: Duty to Cooperate

Infrastructure: Schools Planning