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A Multi-Skilled Consultancy
Formed in 2005, Iceni is now the market leader and preferred consultancy for a fast-growing number of clients. We have always sought to provide the skills of an advisor with the instincts of a developer.
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. 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.
Your Strategic Advisors
Ian Anderson
Chief Executive
Andrew Gale
Chief Operating Officer
James Bompas
Director | Business Devt. & Strategic Planning
Danny Collins Director
Nick Ireland Director
Silke Gruner
Director
Callum Fraser Director
Matt Kinghan Director
We’re proud to say that we’re an award-winning consultancy. We’ve a positive, creative mindset, and we’re passionate about what we do.
Claire Cogar Director
Paul McColgan Director
Chris Jones
Director
Gary Mappin
Laurie Handcock Director
Nick Walker Director
Gemma Gallant Director
Philippa Curran Director
Director Ian Gallacher
Director Ian Mayhead
Director
Kieron Hodgson
Director Leona Hannify
Director
Lewis Westhoff
Director
Lorna O’Carroll
Director Nick Grant
Director
Simon Fowler
Director
Jonathan Stewart Director
Paul Drew Director
James Jaulim Director
Sam Griffiths Director
James Waterhouse
Director
Clive Burbridge
Director
Jamie Sullivan
Director
Fred Peters
Director
John Mumby
Director
Rob Amey
Director
Residential/ Housebuilder
Solving the housing crisis is one of the greatest challenges of our time, and with the ever-changing political landscape, keeping abreast of national and local policy can be tricky. Here at Iceni we have an excellent track record in delivering planning permission and site allocations for many of the major housebuilders and smaller scale residential developers alike. Our comprehensive range of services mean that we take care of the planning, politics, design, heritage, viability, impact management, placemaking, transport and sustainability, so you can rest assured that your project is in safe hands.
Whether you’re looking to buy, sell, develop or promote land for housing, you’ve come to the right place. From initial site finding to consultations, applications and appeals, we understand your needs and can assist in all stages of the planning process. We have always sought to provide the “skills of a planner with the instincts of a developer”, allowing us to seamlessly navigate the planning system to achieve the best outcome for our clients and ultimately speed up delivery. We are passionate about housing and rigorous in our approach. This document contains some of our defining residential projects, which will give you a flavour of what to expect when you work with us. We are extremely proud of all our achievements and lucky that so many of our clients trust us with their ventures.Individually or collectively, you’ll know when you’re with Iceni Projects.
By no means an exhaustive list, the below sets out some of the services that we can provide in this sector:
f Site searches;
f Planning appraisals and strategies;
f Needs assessments;
f Impact assessments including EIA coordination;
f Housing land supply assessments;
f Planning consultations;
f Negotiating planning obligations and conditions;
f Site promotion through the Local Plan process including attendance at Examinations in Public;
f Pre-application discussions with local authorities;
f Stakeholder, consultee and political engagement;
f Site viability;
f Sustainability strategies;
f Planning application coordination and management including detailed, outline, reserved matters, non-material amendment, minor material amendment, discharge of conditions and prior approval applications;
f Participation in Design Review panels;
f Key planning reports including Planning Statements, Design and Access Statements, Transport Assessments, Heritage Impact Assessments, Townscape and Visual Impact Assessments, Energy Statements
f Masterplanning;
f Planning appeals including Public Inquiries.
Introduction Our Projects
Sector
Leven Road Gasworks
Poplar
Authority: Tower Hamlets
Proposal: High-density, mixed-use scheme including 2,800 new homes
Services: Engagement | Planning | Transport
Status: Planning Application Submitted (Awaiting Determination)
We are currently advising St William on the redevelopment of the former Poplar Gasworks site at Leven Road. Having been redundant for over a decade, this major 8 hectare strategic site will transform the riverside and make a significant contribution to the ongoing regeneration of this part of Tower Hamlets.
Currently in pre-application discussion with Tower Hamlets and the Greater London Authority, thesite’s emerging proposals include 2,800 new homes, a 1 hectare park, a 6 form entry secondary school, flexible workspace, retail and a riverside pub.
The pre-application process has been informed by an extensive engagement programme. This has included public consultation events, community workshops on open space and identity, drop-in exhibitions, a Development Forum public meeting, one-to-one meetings, attendance at community events such as the Big Local Fun Day, Mother and Toddler Coffee Mornings, and Aberfeldy FC training sessions.
Gascoigne Estate
Barking
Authority: Barking & Dagenham London Borough Council
Proposal: 1,575 new homes as part of estate regeneration scheme
Services: Planning | Transport | Economic Impact Assessment
Status: Permission Granted (Build Stage)
Iceni Planning and Transport were instructed by East Thames Group and the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham in September 2013 to prepare a hybrid planning application forthe regeneration and renewal of the Gascoigne Estate in Barking. Iceni were instructed to prepare a hybrid planning application comprising the demolition of 16 existing residential towers across the eastern portion of the estate and development of up to 1,575 new homes, two new schools and a range of supporting commercial and community uses. Iceni worked alongside two project architects; with Allies and Morrison advising on the outline Masterplan and Levitt Bernstein advising on the detailed element for 421 new homes.
Iceni led negotiations with the GLA which principally focussed around the proposed tenure mix. Key to this was justifying the change in tenure split and the socio-economic case for the removal of an 80% social rented residential development, with re-provision of a much higher proportion of private, sharedequity and rented homes.
The hybrid planning application was submitted in May 2014, reflecting a very short programme for a scheme of this scale. Planning approval was granted in October 2014 with unanimous political support. Iceni are now retained to advise on various amendments to the scheme and submission of future reserved matters planning applications.
Elephant Park LB of Southwark
Authority: Southwark London Borough Council
Proposal: High-density mixed-use scheme for circa 3,000 homes
Services: Engagement
Status: Outline Planning Permission granted 2013 with 8 subsequent Reserved Matters Applications approved between 2016 and 2019. Project completion 2024
Iceni Engagement have supported Lendlease through multiple Reserved Matters Applications on Elephant Park, the challenging redevelopment of the Heygate Estate in Elephant & Castle.
Ciron Edwards, Engagement Director, has coordinated all public consultation and community stakeholder engagement on the project for the past eight years. Extensive and consistent community and political engagement has helped the project move through the highly controversial masterplanning phase on the project that underwent high levels of public, political and media scrutiny, and onto a more productive phase where the last three Reserved Matters Applications have been granted planning approval under delegated powers.
Overall the project includes over 3,000 new homes, the largest new park in central London for 70 years, 31,750 sqm of business, retail, community and leisure space, and a new, council managed, leisure centre.
Iceni Engagement are pleased to be continuing to support Lendlease through the remaining phase of the project that is due to complete in 2025.
Edinburgh Road Linlithgow, West Lothian
Authority: West Lothian Council
Proposal: 48 bespoke apartments
Services: Planning
Status: Permission Granted on Appeal
Iceni Projects secured planning permission for 48 bespoke flats at Edinburgh Road, Linlithgow. The application for Planning Permission was originally refused by West Lothian Council Development Management Committee but the Council’s decision was overturned by the DPEA and planning permission was approved on 2nd August 2019.
Ciron Edwards, Engagement Director, has coordinated all public consultation and community stakeholder engagement on the project for the past eight years. Extensive and consistent community and political engagement has helped the project move through the highly controversial masterplanning phase on the project that underwent high levels of public, political and media scrutiny, and onto a more productive phase where the last three Reserved Matters Applications have been granted planning approval under delegated powers.
Overall the project includes over 3,000 new homes, the largest new park in central London for 70 years, 31,750 sqm of business, retail, community and leisure space, and a new, council managed, leisure centre.
Iceni Engagement are pleased to be continuing to support Lendlease through the remaining phase of the project that is due to complete in 2025.
Middlefield Glasgow
Authority: West Lothian Council
Proposal: 63 new apartments in Glasgow’s West End Services: Planning
Status: Permission Granted (Development Commenced)
Located in another sought after location in Glasgow’s West End, the team advised Westpoint Homes on the delivery of 63 high quality apartments with private car and cycle parking as well as a landscape deck. The proposal has been sensitively designed to complete the perimeter block at this brownfield site which is the location of the former Middlefield Residential School. The site is also within the Glasgow West Conservation Area and is finished with high quality blonde sandstone on the main elevations.
Due to the size of the proposal, the development was deemed a major planning application and statutory pre-application consultation applied. Iceni Projects led this process, in discussion with members of the public, local stakeholders and the city council.
Planning permission was secured following discussion and negotiation with Glasgow City Council’s planning officers and presentation to Glasgow City Council’s Planning Committee who voted to approve the planning application subject to a Section 69 agreement.
The team are currently working with Wespoint Homes on more exciting developments at Eastwoodhill (East Renfrewshire) and Cranstonhill (Former Police Station, Glasgow).
Richmond Street Manchester
Authority: Manchester City Council
Proposal: City centre townhouses
Services: Planning
Status: Permission Granted (Development Commenced)
Iceni’s Manchester team secured consent for a new townhouse development on Richmond Street, next to Canal Street, for the innovative and highly successful developer, Watch This Space.
The scheme involved the comprehensive redevelopment of a derelict site to create seven three-bed townhouses with integral garages and one two bed maisonette apartment.
The site is narrow and highly constrained; Iceni had to work collaboratively with the architect, Snook, to realise the development potential and come up with effective solutions to a number of challenges.
The Richmond Street Townhouses are some of the first of their kind in Manchester City Centre, offering accommodation suitable for families, disrupting traditional city centre living and paving the way for more innovative city centre schemes.
Strategic Land Promotion
Stretton, Warrington
Authority: Warrington Borough Council
Proposal: Strategic land promotion
Services: Planning
Status: Site allocation in Draft Local Plan
Iceni assisted Wallace Land Investments in promoting their strategic development opportunity in Warrington through the draft local plan. The site can accommodate between 550 & 700 2, 3, 4 and 5-bedroom homes, up to 30% of which will be affordable homes together with 4ha of employment land if required.
The proposed scheme will provide a new distributor road through the site which will help improve the local highway network and provide traffic relief, creating an enhanced amenity for existing residents within Stretton. The proposal is designed to integrate with the existing village of Stretton, with a large area of open space a setting to the existing church and historic core of the village.
Land Off Whitefield Drive
Knowsley
Authority: Knowsley Council
Proposal: Redevelopment of derelict site for 266 dwellings
Services: Planning | Impact Management | Sustainable Development
Status: Permission Granted
Iceni’s Manchester office were instructed by Engie to prepare and submit a planning application to transform a derelict 16-acre site off Whitefield Drive, Kirkby.
The scheme will deliver 266 new homes, with a mix of private rent, affordable rent and shared ownership properties available. The proposed development will be constructed by Engie on behalf of registered provider Your Housing Group who will retain and manage the properties.
The site is located close to Kirkby Town Centre and is designated as a Development Opportunity Site, benefitting from its accessible location along with existing green space nearby. Through an extensive pre-application process including a Places Matter design review panel, the scheme has evolved and now includes a core set of design themes that have been closely adhered to across the entire site. For example, the inclusion of taller buildings to the site perimeter, coherent street edges to aid legibility, and distinct landmarks at key junctions helps create a sense of place and destination. The scheme is unified and cohesive through the design of nine house types, which will be combined in various ways to produce a range of semi-detached and terraced options.
Gemma Gallant Director, Engagement
T: 020 3640 8508
M: 07879 848 163
E: ggallant@iceniprojects.com
Gemma brings expertise in post-consent engagement and creates social value at every stage of development.
Gemma co-directs the Engagement team and has experience of leading an agency team specialising in community engagement for six years, developed after a ten-year career in community engagement and community development at Kingston Council.
As well as a great track record of mobilising support for allocations and applications, Gemma has worked on a wide range of schemes at each stage of development from estate regeneration to garden villages, and infrastructure projects estate to town centre regeneration schemes. She brings particular expertise of generating social value and protecting her client’s reputations through her post-consent experience of community development.
Gemma is skilled in creating positive relationships, developing extensive networks which support her clients’ success while bringing councillors, residents and key partners together on the journey.
Gemma is an advocate for involving the silent majority in consultation and engagement initiatives and is skilled in finding creative solutions to achieve success.
Introduction Our Projects
Our People
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 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.
Sustainable Development Scorecardwww.thescorecard.org.uk
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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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WEST MIDLANDS
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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 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.
Added Value Vu.City
Vi.City is the largest and most truly accurate 3D interactive model development to date. Testing initial draft proposals or sites within this software can significantly optimise feasibility and preapplication stages leading directly to better decision making through the process. It is beneficial for the client and the planning process to be able to collaborate in this way, optimising strategy brought forward and cutting down on unnecessary delays in programme, scoping, etc.
This is a 3D modelling tool which covers many parts of the UK but its particularly detailed in relation to the area of London. More and more Councils and consultee bodies, such as Historic England, are adopting this licensing to have their own facility in-house. Iceni Projects can consult more effectively with the relevant public bodies to achieve the best outcomes for a project through the use of Vu.City software.
Archaeology | Built Heritage & Townscape | Design | Economics | Engagement | Impact Management
Landscape | Place | Planning | Transport
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