Hyas Associates

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Hyas is an independent consultancy offering tailored support and strategic advice to help complex projects move successfully through the planning system. Our unique and trusted approach – based upon positive planning, active engagement & collaboration, a keen understanding of delivery and a mindset focused on finding solutions – can enable stakeholders to quickly understand and diagnose issues and evolve actions and strategies to overcome them.

Hyas can support with stakeholder & community engagement, planning strategy, policy making, development management, place-making, viability, infrastructure planning & scheme deliverability. Hyas provides strategic critical friend support together with direct hands-on capacity to ensure projects can make positive progress through the planning system.

The team fully understand that every project will have different needs and challenges. A bespoke service is provided addressing the specific issues, needs & challenges. We will take into account a project’s broader context, the key stakeholders involved and wider influences.

The team are specialists in advising on large scale, complex development projects – particularly residential led initiatives. All team members bring considerable knowledge and experience having worked across a wide range of the largest and most complex residential led projects that have come forward in the UK over recent years. This includes urban extensions, new settlements, Garden Cities/Villages, inner-urban regeneration projects and estate renewal.

Local & Strategic Planning: Development Briefs

Local & Strategic Planning: Local Plans

Agriculture: Farms

Countryside & Environment: Environmental Impact Assessments

Housing: Housing Design Layout

Design: Masterplanning

Design: Urban Design

Economic Development: Inward Investment

Economic Development: Marketing

Neighbourhood & Community Planning: Public Participation

Housing: Affordable Housing

Housing: Appeals

Housing: Applications

Housing: Residential Developments

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Expert Witness

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Mediation

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Planning Gain

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Section 106 Agreements

Local & Strategic Planning: EIP (Examination in Public)

Local & Strategic Planning: Green Belt

Probity: Elected Member Training

Research: Feasibility Studies

Research: Research / Surveys

Research: Site Appraisals

Retail: Town Centres

Urban Regeneration: Brownfield Sites

Urban Regeneration: Compulsory Purchases

Urban Regeneration: PPP (Public & Private Partnerships)

Economic Development: Funding Advice

Economic Development: Development Strategies

Economic Development: Funding Applications

Economic Development: Feasibility Studies

Agriculture: Option Agreements

Agriculture: Planning & Development

Local & Strategic Planning: Core Strategies

Research: Viability and Planning Assessments and Inquiries

Design: Implementation

Local & Strategic Planning: Area Development Frameworks

Local & Strategic Planning: Planning Strategies

Urban Regeneration: Design

Urban Regeneration: Town & City Centre Revitalisation Schemes

Urban Regeneration: Joint Venture Partnerships

Design: Design Layout

Infrastructure: Infrastructure Planning for Local Plans

Infrastructure: Duty to Cooperate

Infrastructure: Schools Planning

Economic Development: Viability Assessment

Housing: Viability Assessments

Local Authority Services: Development Management

Local Authority Services: Local Plan Making

Local Authority Services: Contracted Out Services

Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Affordable Housing Viability

Local & Strategic Planning: Duty to Cooperate

Local & Strategic Planning: Sustainability Appraisal

Local & Strategic Planning: Development Plan - Viability Assessments

Urban Regeneration: Housing Estate Masterplans