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Introduction Our Projects
A Leading Consultancy
f 5 Regional Offices
f Circa 200 Employees
f Employee Owned Trust
f 54 RTPI Chartered Town Planners
f 1000+ Projects Advised
Formed in 2005, Iceni is now the market leader and preferred consultancy for a fast-growing number of clients across different regions of the UK. We have always sought to provide the skills of an advisor with the instincts of a developer.
We’re proud to say that we’re an award-winning consultancy. We have a positive, creative mindset, and we’re passionate about what we do.
We’re happy to support clients through any part of the project bringing in specialists from across our disciplines. Our multi-disciplinary appraoch allows for one-stop-shop making the process easier.
Regional growth is fundamental to the future success of the UK economy. At Iceni we recognise that no two places are the same.
Ian Anderson Chief Executive
Your Strategic Advisor
f Commercial, positive, creative mind-set
f Multi-skilled approach
f Lead consultant role
f End-to-end service
f Place-based focus
Economics
We have always sought to provide the “skills of a planner with the instincts of a developer”. The technical specialisms that the company hold have widened, but this fundamental objective remains the same. We are committed to putting our client’s interests first – and providing them with the tools to significantly improve their performance.
We achieve this by knowing our tradecraft – the technical skills that come through years of education and on-the- job experience that is recognised by professional accreditation. But it is also daring to be different; being proactive and thinking strategically. Our client relationships are built on trust, togetherness, enthusiasm, and a courage to challenge, where appropriate.
We are able to provide specialist advice in the fields of archaeology; built heritage and townscape; delivery; design; edonomics; EIA management; engagement; planning; sustainable development and transport. Our team are talented, relentless, intelligent, bold and experienced. Individually or collectively, you’ll know when you’re with Iceni Projects.
To Iceni, thinking strategically is what we fundamentally believe to be the right way of doing things; to assess needs, evaluate constraints and maximise opportunities. It’s about having a strategic vision for a site, often looking beyond the immediate constraint of development management policies, and utilising a diverse range of skills to deliver large scale infrastructure and development projects.
We have the expertise to deliver strategic planning at a sub-regional and local level, advising local authorities on evidence and strategy development across England. Our services include advising local authorities on aligning their evidence on housing need and economic growth, to deliver a collaborative approach to strategic planning.
Economics
Economics is Iceni’s newest team. The interface between our daily lives, the economy, property and housing markets has never been more important. Our population is growing, but also getting older. Technology is rapidly changing how we work, live and shop. Economic restricting is creating challenges in some areas, but opportunities in others. Our economics team has been established to help understand these issues and how they are affecting different places with the aim of providing clear, locally-specific evidence to guide and support development.
The work of our economics team is interlinked with that of our Futures team which provides cross-sector guidance on how changes to the climate, lifestyles and technology affect the built environment, and in turn, how the built environment affects our health and wellbeing. We are able to call upon expertise from a broad range of disciplines to ensure the environments we’re planning for today will be ready for the future.
We’ve brought together leading individuals in this area who are trusted advisors to the private and public sector and can provide expert support throughout the planning process, from local plan evidence and site promotion, justifying development proposals through to expert witness advice. Our expertise is nationwide and we have worked within or with over 150 local planning authorities across the UK. We have also been appointed to the Homes England Strategic Research and Economics Framework 2020-2024.
Our approach is one which is place-specific: we use a combination of data analysis and local engagement to get under the skin of local issues, understand what makes a place
tick, but also the challenges and opportunities for it in the future. This locally specific approach, combined with our wider in-depth understanding of economic trends, demographics and property markets allows us to provide informed, commercially-realistic advice.
Our core services cover:
Business case development and funding bid support
Commercial property market assessment
Economic development advice and strategies
Economic impact assessment and development case-making
Economic needs assessment
Employment land review
Employment, skills and training strategies
Five year housing land supply
Housing delivery studies
Housing market and needs assessments
Social value assessments
Sub-regional spatial planning
Our Economics Expertise
Working with developers, landlords, investors, local authorities, other public sector bodies and occupiers, Iceni bring specialist expertise in assessing the need for and impacts of development.
The Iceni Economics offer is driven by our geographical breadth, depth of knowledge and range of capabilities and experience. Our directors are respected in their fields, formerly constituting the senior staff of GL Hearn’s economics team and advised in over 150 local planning authority areas. We are a trusted advisor to the public and private sector, providing local plan evidence, site promotion, technical studies and expert witness based on sound housing and economic advice.
Our core services include:
Housing Market & Needs Assessments
We offer market-leading expertise in assessing housing needs, from working with Councils to put in place Strategic Housing Market Assessments; through to providing locally-specific evidence on housing mix or the need for different types of housing – be that affordable homes, build-to-rent, self-build or specialist housing with care.
Housing Land Supply & Delivery
We have extensive expertise in assessing and giving evidence on housing land supply for both site promoters and Councils. We also advise on housing delivery issues, from undertaking area-based assessments of the pace of housing growth which could be achieved, to advising on strategies to support delivery of major strategic sites at pace.
Economic Needs Assessments
We love to get under the skin of local economics and understand what makes them tick and what an be done to make places prosper. This leads us into work with public sector clients
in developing evidence, including economic needs assessment and employment land reviews and business cases.
Economic Impact & Benefits Assessments
We understand the impacts of investment in development and infrastructure and have advised on schemes from small to large including DCOs of HS2 and Luton Airport. This can help inform proposals, articulate a compelling justification for them or ensure that the benefits of development are maximised. Iceni has developed a robust model for setting out the economic benefits of a site which can be combined with quality graphic design to succinctly present findings.
Employment Land & Commercial Assessment
Commercial markets from warehousing to office schemes are more dynamic then ever, with e-commerce driving small and large warehousing demand whilst office markets are in flux. We use market intelligence to evidence the need for schemes – or the redundancy of others – providing public and private clients with solutions at the strategic and individual scheme level.
Commercial Property Market Assessment
Through our sound commercial experience and access to CoStar commercial property database, we provide robust analysis of commercial market signals, as evidence for future patterns in employment land whether it be for local plan evidence or case making for loss of employment.
Employment, Skills & Training Strategies
Ensuring that the benefits of development reach local communities requires an understanding of how planning mechanisms are navigated through to implementation,
which realistic and deliverable targets for local training and employment opportunities through strategies, where required.
Business Case Development & Funding Bid Support
Our team has produces HM Treasury Green Book compliant business cases, specialising in the economic case including cost benefits analysis, land value uplift assessment, monetisation of benefits and discounted cash flow. These have been typically used for funding work: Land Assembly Fund, Housing Infrastructure Fund and Regional Growth Fund; as well as for a range feasibility studies and options assessments.
Sub-Regional Planning
We have a track record of advising local authorities at a subregional level on strategic planning issues, and the development of both statutory and non-statutory strategic plans.
Futures Strategic Advice
We provide strategic futureproofing advice which is tailored to your site, organisation or strategy. Our advice is bespoke in terms of output, whether it be a focus on climate change, new ways of living and building, new legislation, health and wellbeing or technological advancements.
Introduction Our Projects
Our People
Future of Warehousing in the Golden Triangle
Leicester and Leicestershire
Iceni directors, working with GL Hearn, led this ‘horizon scanning’ exercise to consider the long term changing nature of the warehousing sector in the centre of the UK, the largest market for super sheds.
The report consider the big changes to the sector such as decarbonisation, e-commerce and automation. It considered the floorspace requirements to 2040 and how these could be accommodated across the county, as well as the types of employment likely to be required to support this nationally critical sector.
Growth Needs Assessment
Oxfordshire
The five Oxfordshire authorities are committed to preparing a joint strategic plan cover the period to 2050 – the Oxfordshire Plan –responding to the Housing & Growth Deal which has been negotiated with Government, and Oxfordshire’s location within the Oxford-Milton Keynes-Cambridge Arc.
Iceni and Cambridge Econometrics have been working with the Oxfordshire Growth Board to prepare a Growth Needs Assessment to inform consideration of what level of provision should be made for housing growth and employment land over the period to 2050, and consider the implications of alternative strategic distribution strategies on how the area functions.
The Growth Needs Assessment includes an integrated evidence base and scenarios for economic growth and housing need. This is underpinned by an understanding of the county’s economy and its housing and commercial property dynamics. We have then been working alongside local stakeholders to consider alternative scenarios for the spatial distribution of homes and jobs across Oxfordshire, including considering the market capacity of different locations. The Growth Needs Assessment builds on work which Iceni has been undertaking with the Oxfordshire Growth Board in 2019 to understand potential scenarios for growth.
Newtown Works
Ashford
Iceni has been working with Quinn Estates to bring forward an ambitious mixed-use scheme for a film-studios complex (including studio an workshop space and a media village), hotel, c. 10,000 sq.m. commercial space, 300 residential units and 65 served apartments on a brownfield site in central Ashford.
Alongside acting as planning consultants for the scheme, Iceni Economics have worked to identify and quantify the economic benefits of the proposed development. This has included examining the structure of Ashford’s economy and labour market, examining the dynamics and growth potential of the UK Film and TV sector and articulating how the scheme will contribute to diversifying the Borough’s economic structure, delivering higher value employment and acting as a wider catalyst for regeneration and investment.
We have quantified the economic benefits of the scheme, addressing construction; occupational, fiscal and wider benefits; showing how the scheme will support an uplift in the Borough’s economy of over £100m.
Housing Needs Evidence
Central Lancashire
Iceni’s team members have provided advice on housing needs to the three Central Lancashire authorities – Preston, Chorley and South Ribble – for a number of years. Iceni’s latest Study has considered overall housing need, and modelled the need for affordable housing.
It includes updated evidence on the needs of older persons and those with disabilities, the potential of the build-to-rent
Iceni have also worked with the three authorities to appraise strategic development constraints and factors spatial options for the distribution of development across the three Central Lancashire authorities.
Regional Growth Fund
Business Case | Chorley Council
Members of the Iceni team, in former roles at GL Hearn, produced a HM Treasury Green Book five case model funding bid to Lancashire Local Enterprise Partnership’s Regional Growth Fund bid.
Working with Hive Land, the work established the business case for remediation and employment development at Alker Lane in Chorley in order to bring forwarded needed employment units and local job opportunities. The authority acquired site as part of a land swap went through a series of funding assessments and secured finance under the Getting Building Fund.
Housing Strategy Advice
Oxfordshire Cotswolds Garden Village
Iceni has provided housing strategy advice to West Oxfordshire District Council to inform the preparation of an Area Action Plan and Supplementary Planning Document for the Oxfordshire Cotswold Garden Village and West Eynsham Strategic Development Area (SDA) respectively.
WODC’s adopted Local Plan allocates the two strategic sites for development near Eynsham. The West Eynsham SDA is allocated for the delivery of 1,000 homes and the OCGV is expected to deliver a working assumption of around 2,200 homes. To guide the development of these two sites, WODC is in the process of preparing an AAP for the OCGV site; and a Development Framework for the SDA which is intended to be adopted as an SPD.
Iceni has prepared detailed evidence regarding the mix of housing which would be appropriate in each site, including house types, size and tenures; affordable housing requirements and delivery phasing/implementation. Our work has included exploring opportunities for custom/self-build, employment and education linked housing, the acceleration of housing delivery and long-term maintenance and management of the housing stock.
Economic Strategy
Southend Sector D
Iceni has worked collaboratively with Rochford District Council, Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and site promoters Cogent Land LLP to develop an Economic Strategy in support of development of a major mixed-use urban extension to Southend-on-Sea of c. 7000 homes.
Iceni Economics first used an evidence-based approach and engagement with key stakeholders to develop an in-depth understanding of the structure, dynamics and growth potential of the local economy. We then appraised employment land dynamics, including consideration of local demand and market dynamics as well as competing locations within the wider sub-region. This provided a basis for considering potential economic opportunities.
Our Strategy sought to consider how the nature of work is changing, how employment opportunities could be integrated into 15-minute neighbourhoods and to test the scale of potential provision of more traditional ‘employment land’ which might be needed alongside this. It considered how the urban extension would inter-relate to other existing employment hubs, including the Town Centre and Southend Airport, and has been used to inform masterplanning for the site.
Public Inquiry
Oxford Brookes Wheatley Campus
Oxford Brookes University applied for planning permission for the residential redevelopment of its Wheatley Campus outside Oxford to deliver 500 homes. Following the refusal of the planning application, Iceni was engaged to provide expert witness evidence on housing need.
Iceni’s evidence addressed the need for housing in South Oxfordshire, including the evidence that housing need was higher than indicated by the standard method, based on the area’s economic dynamism. The Inspector found considerable merit in these.
Employment Land Evidence
West London
Iceni directors, in former roles at GL Hearn, led a study of the Ealing, Barnet, Brent and Harrow industrial markets. This assessed the current property market dynamics in detail and how these are expected to change over the next twenty years, supporting the boroughs in their discussions with the GLA during the preparation of the London Plan.
The London Plan’s industrial evidence identified a significant future shortfall in industrial land and encourages the intensification of existing sites. This study revisited the long term requirements for industrial land through established modelling techniques; and tested the viability of delivering industrial intensification across the host boroughs. The key issues for colocation with residential and industrial intensification at the local level were set out and the broad locations likely to be suitable. Future trends in industrial and warehousing requirements were considered including e-commerce, electric vehicles, last mile deliveries and the future for large scale warehousing.
Economic Benefits
Stonehouse Park
Iceni have provided specialist economic and socio-economic expertise to prepare supporting evidence in support of a planning application the residential-led development of the former Brooke Hill Golf Club near Sevenoaks in Kent on behalf of Quinn Estates. The planning application includes 850 homes, a 180-unit retirement village, together with commercial space, sporting facilities and a new local centre.
Iceni has prepared a Socio-Economic Assessment and Economic Benefits Statement to support the Planning Application. The Economic Benefits assessment has considered the construction and operational impacts of the development, as well as articulating some of the wider housing market and social benefits of elements of the scheme including the retirement village.
Housing & Economic Development Needs Assessment
West Lancashire
Iceni has been working with West Lancashire Borough Council to prepare an integrated evidence base to inform its Housing Strategy, Local Plan and Economic Development Strategy.
The Housing & Economic Development Needs Assessment has included detailed consideration of economic dynamics and growth opportunities for the Borough’s economy and work with the Council to develop and test alternative scenarios for future economic performance. The implications of this for housing and employment land needs have then been appraised.
Alongside this, Iceni has undertaken an appraisal of existing and potential employment sites across the District.
The Assessment also includes the development of an up-to-date evidence base regarding the need for different types of homes, including from the needs of older persons, students, custom/ self-build and build-to-rent.
Introduction Our Projects
Danny Collins Head of English Regions, Director of Economics
T: 0161 509 2840
M: 07884 604 373
E: dcollins@iceniprojects.com
Danny is a skilled economist having worked on some of the most challenging urban regeneration, development and infrastructure projects across the country
Danny is Head of English Regions and Wales at Iceni. He has been tasked with growing the firms multi-disciplinary offer across the major cities and regions of the UK, including planning, economics, heritage, design and transport. He helps to coordinate multi-disciplinary teams bringing together a seamless service to support clients through all stages of concept, design, planning and delivery.
Danny is also a Director in the Economics team and lead for Business Cases and Funding bids. He works with a talented team of economists across the country delivering a range of services including market analysis, economic benefits, socio-economic impact, social value, social infrastructure demand, economic strategy and research, business case and funding bid work. As a Business Case practitioner and Green Book expert, Danny has worked on large and complex cases helping to unlock over £450 million of public sector funding to support major urban regeneration, town centre, as well as infrastructure projects across the county. Danny is passionate about our towns, cities, and communities, and in supporting projects that help unlock opportunities in a sustainable way.
Nick Ireland Director
Nick specialises in providing advice on strategic planning issues relating to housing and economic development
Nick joined Iceni having previously worked at GL Hearn and GVA. Nick has advised councils at a sub-regional level on strategic growth opportunities, including urban extensions, new settlements and strategic infrastructure. He led preparation of a Birmingham HMA Strategic Housing Study which encompassed a strategic review of Birmingham’s Green Belt; a Spatial Position Statement for the Partnership for Urban South Hampshire (PUSH), and has work with other local authorities in Buckinghamshire, Kent and Sussex to assess potential locations for, and the feasibility of new settlements and large urban extensions.
He has led preparation of the evidence base on housing mix for a substantial proportion of local authorities, and regularly acts for both public and private sector clients as an expert witness of housing need and housing delivery issues at both local plan examinations and s.78 inquiries. He has led preparation of employment land studies for private and public sector clients, and authored expert evidence supporting the allocation of strategic employment sites through the local plan process, including major Green Belt releases, as well as assessments justifying loss of employment land. His work includes assessing the economic justification and impact for development schemes of a variety of scales.
Matt Kinghan Director
T: 020 3640 8508
M: 07753 222 920
E: mkinghan@iceniprojects.com
Matt specialises in economic planning and evidence base work for both public and private sector clients
His key strengths are in economic planning and evidence base work including employment land and commercial demand reviews, social and economic impact assessment, developing economic & industrial strategies, social value assessment and Green Book business case appraisal. His experience ranges from urban renewal and town centre redevelopment proposals through to greenfield strategic sites and new settlements.
Matt’s recent project experience includes advising on economic development and employment land needs for around 50 authorities including in Greater Cambridge, Solihull and Bassetlaw and West Northamptonshire, appearing at numerous Local Plan examinations. He has undertaken specific warehousing needs and site assessments / promotion in Aylesbury, West Northamptonshire, Liverpool City Region and Leicestershire. Matt also brings expertise in modelling the future of local economies and assessing the economic impacts of infrastructure projects. His experience includes assessing the economic and employment effects of major infrastructure projects including the expansion of Luton Airport and HS2 Phase 2b; and business case development for Homes England’s Land Assembly Fund, the Regional Growth Fund and Housing Infrastructure Fund monies.
Paul McColgan Director
T: 020 3640 8508
M: 07827 944 637
E: pmccolgan@iceniprojects.com
Paul specialises in housing and economic related evidence base work for both the private and public sectors
His skills includes demographics, housing market signals, affordable housing need and housing mix. He also has an understanding of the needs for specific groups particularly older persons and students. Having undertaken a number of Employment Land Reviews and Housing and Economic Development Need Assessments, Paul also has a thorough understanding economic-led housing need as well as the need for employment land.
He has managed a number of major sub-regional studies examining these issues including areas with a dynamic economy such as Leicester and Leicestershire through to rural areas such as the South Downs National Park. As well as covering all aspects of these assessments, he has also given evidence on behalf of local authorities and developers at Local Plan Examinations and acted as an expert witness at S.78 Inquiries on housing need, five year housing land supply and the need for specialist accommodation. Paul has also presented to the Midlands Planners Conference and provided training to RTPI members concerning the standard methodology and the Housing Delivery Test.
Kieran Woolfe Associate, Economics
T: 020 3640 8508
M: 07350 446 769
E: kwoolfe@iceniprojects.com
Kieran is a town planner and economist who is adept at integrating multiple sources of data to create well-grounded policy advice
He has a unique background spanning qualifications in computational physics and urban planning, and has a particular interest in the intersection of largescale data analysis with town planning policy.
Kieran has project managed or acted as lead analyst on a wide variety of economics and town planning projects, ranging from individual developments to the regional scale. His expertise encompasses a range of topics, including the housing, employment and retail sectors; development viability; demographics; and the development of land use scenarios and forecasts. He has previously been responsible for leading the research and development of innovative economics models and data tools at one of Australia’s leading planning and economics consultancies.
Kieran has a keen understanding of the local authority context which he has developed across his career. Before joining Iceni, Kieran worked at a senior level within the planning policy team of a London borough. At Iceni he has worked on multiple projects for local authorities including economic and employment evidence for Cambridge and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and the Welwyn Hatfield HEDNA. He originally hails from Australia, and also has experience working for local government in Sydney and in providing policy and economics consultancy advice to councils and other levels of government across Australia.
Amy Foster Senior Consultant, Economics
T: 020 3640 8508
M: 07385 005 045
E: afoster@iceniprojects.com
Amy joined Iceni’s Economics Team in November 2023 as a Senior Consultant.
Amy has 5 years’ experience delivering quantitative and qualitative analysis particularly within the public sector. She previously worked as a Senior Economic Analyst at HS2, leading on the delivery of value for money analysis to support the business case of the multi-billion-pound infrastructure project. Prior to this, Amy has worked in central government and consulting. Amy graduated from the University of Leeds in 2019/20, receiving a first class honours degree in Economics and Geography.
Amy undertakes economic baseline and commercial market research, employment floorspace needs modelling, policy reviews, agent and stakeholder engagement and a variety of data analysis.
Amy has worked on several economic development and housing and employment needs assessments including Swindon Employment Needs and Land Supply study, Waverley Housing and Economic Development Needs Assessment (HEDNA) and Liverpool Employment Land and Premises Study. This work contributes to the research bases for housing and economic development strategies as part of emerging Local Plans.
Josie Doherty Senior Consultant, Economics
T: 020 3640 8508
M: 07799 035 831
E: jdoherty@iceniprojects.com
Josie joined Iceni from a development management role at Medway Council in August 2021.
Previous to this she completed an integrated Masters degree in town planning and real estate at the University of Manchester. Josie has studied both planning and real estate surveying which has allowed her to develop a wideranging knowledge of planning systems, property markets and how they interact with each other.
During her time at university, she undertook a month long placement at Iceni’s Manchester office, which further deepened her desire to work within planning as well as various other work placements within Local Authorities and consultancies. She is currently working towards RTPI accreditation.
Josie’s assists the Economics team in a wide range of projects across the country. She undertakes various types of research into economic development within localities, including consultation with local experts in property markets and specific housing needs groups, economic baseline research and in-depth data analysis. Josie’s work aides in forming research bases for economic development strategies as part of emerging Local Plans.
Lauren Brannon Senior Consultant, Economics
T: 020 3640 8508
M: 07442 753 222
E: lbrannon@iceniprojects.com
Lauren works on a wide range of projects in the Economics team, with a focus on the commercial markets and employment land. She undertakes economic baseline research, commercial market reports, employment land need modelling and data analysis
Lauren worked as a Graduate Economist at Ofwat, the UK’s water sector regulator, working across various areas including cost assessment and incentive-based regulation. Prior to this she completed a BSc Economics at the University of Nottingham with a focus on microeconomics, econometrics and monetary economics.
Recently Lauren has worked on a number of regional studies, including logistics employment land studies in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire as well as the West Midlands Strategic Employment Sites Study (WMSESS), the latter focused on the future need and supply of strategic logistics sites, undertaking in-depth GIS analysis to identify potential sites and engaging with a number of stakeholders and carrying out data analysis to build a scoring framework for assessment.
Nadine Fisher Senior Consultant, Economics
T: 020 3640 8508
M: 07345 733 371
E: nfisher@Iceniprojects.com
Nadine Fisher is a Senior Economist with over seven years of professional experience in economics
She holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Bath and a BA in Politics, Economics and Public Policy from Goldsmiths, University of London, equipping her with a strong analytical foundation and a multidisciplinary perspective on economic policy and development.
Nadine has delivered bespoke economic modelling for a wide variety of clients, including HM Treasury, the Food and Drink Federation and other industry bodies, and charitable organisations. This involved applying robust data analysis to investigate the economic impacts of policy and investment decisions, supporting both public and private sector strategies.
More recently Nadine has gained over three years’ experience in development economics gaining valuable experience in assessing the economic and socio-economic impacts of infrastructure, residential, affordable housing and specialist housing developments at local, regional, and national levels. In particular, her key area of expertise are data centre projects, providing both quantitative and qualitative evidence on the economic effects of proposed developments and their alignment with national policy objectives.
Lydia Frimley Assistant Planner, Strategic Planning
T: 020 3640 8508
M: 07760 653 824
E: lfrimley@iceniprojects.com
Lydia joined Iceni’s Strategic Team at the end of June 2022 as part of our apprenticeship programme
Whilst working at Iceni she is completing her qualifications for her Assistant Planner role at Chichester College, which is partnered with the RTPI to offer this course. Prior to this she had studied Maths, Business, Physics A-levels at Westcliff High School for Girls. She has also completed an EPQ on modular housing.
She has worked across the Strategic Team helping to review policies, write planning and socio-economic statements. She has also inputted in to Health Impact Assessment and five year housing land supply assessment.
For Iceni’s Economics Team she has assisted with site assessments for the BCP and Dorset Employment Land Review and provided inputs in the West Midlands Strategic Employment Sites Study (WMSESS) including GIS analysis. Her further experience includes undertaking several planning appraisals and policy research including examining the impact of proposed changes to the NPPF.
She is currently leading Iceni’s intelligence work in Sussex giving her a detailed knowledge of their planning progression, housing supply, major applications and changes happening within the county.
Introduction Our Projects
Our People
Added Value
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Added Value iSite
iSite pulls together a number of services to enable the promoter of a project – but equally the respective consultant, local authority, consultee, local community and wider interested party – to gain the knowledge and understanding of a site or location that historically has only been possible from an in-depth site visit. Moreover, many projects are of the size and scale that even a physical site visit renders difficult to comprehend.
The key focus of iSite is to provide an intelligent digital design and consultation tool. This incorporates the use of drone photography, 360° camerawork (think Google Street View for buildings), interactive, virtual consultation halls and project web sites that can pool together all of the information for effective file management and sharing. So whether you need to initiate an initial site survey appraisal, team site visit, pre-application meeting, public consultation event or committee presentation, iSite can help.
iSite wont be for everyone. We understand that. But if you are looking for cost-effective ways to progress with your proposals, it could be the answer.
Added Value Place
Sites don’t start with, and aren’t defined by, planning policy. They’re defined by people. And people bring a melting pot of ideas and opinions.
Not everyone will necessarily share the view that a site needs developing, regenerating or renewal, especially in areas undergoing massive amounts of change or those where nothing has happened despite the will to see it happen.
They are sites that often mean more to people than an abstract red line on an OS plan, where physical and social barriers override site boundaries. Where people have a connection to their incidental bit of city they call home.
They have a past, they have a present and a future. Just like people.
Iceni Place delivers an approach that welcomes all of these views, fears, hopes and dreams into a collaborative process built on listening. It starts with people, asking “What does success look like to you?” and ends with a legacy of better places.
Added Value Iceni Intelligence
Whilst Iceni is a national consultancy, we pride ourselves on having a thorough local understanding of the communities we are seeking to change. We therefore have a suite of area based experts to understand, monitor and identify planning and political change across geographic areas.
This work extends beyond monitoring of Local Plans and considers issues such as the political composition and priorities of an area. Objectively Assessed Need and signs of market failure across the full use spectrum from housing, through employment to social and transport infrastructure. We also monitor significant planning decisions and the ways in which planning policies are applied in practice through casework decisions at Planning Committees and the Planning Inspectorate. This work greatly enhances the quality of the commercial advice we provide.
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Added Value SDS
Irrespective of the scale, complexity or societal benefits of a development proposal, it will always attract local opposition, which makes decision taking harder.
Iceni prides itself on formulating new, distinct and innovative tools and techniques for demonstrating why new development should be supported and why it will have positive transformational positive effects on communities.
We have developed our own techniques for formulating development proposals, operating at the local level within communities to identify how developments can have the greatest effect on peoples lives, and be delivered in a highly successful and sustainable way.
Added Value Iceni Futures
The Iceni Futures team was set up in response to the rapidly changing world and the acknowledgment that more than ever, we need to create futureproofed and sustainable development. The teams role is to assess, predict and influence change across the development industry. In practice that means exploring how places and people will function in the future, analysing existing barriers and providing strategic advice which aligns with clients goals and aspirations to ensure development is fit for the future.
The team doesn’t claim to be experts in every new discipline or product, but they understand the existing barriers and outdated development processes that persist across the industry and the importance of working innovatively and smarter to deliver client visions and change that actually works. It’s understood that each client will need tailored advice and the Futures team look to work collaboratively to provide advice which is tailored to a specific site, company strategy or product. Essentially, if you’re looking to plan for or capitalise on the future, Iceni Futures can be there to support you and drive that ambition.
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