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Lichfields

Lichfields is the UK’s pre-eminent planning and development consultancy. With nine offices across the UK, we combine local knowledge with a network of resources to support and deliver successful projects at every scale. Our specialists offer insight, innovative thinking and expert advice to create great places for future generations.

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Founded: 1962

Service areas:

Community engagement
Visualisation, 3D modelling and animations
Geographical information systems (GIS) and mapping
Environmental and sustainability services
Plan-making, planning application and data management systems

Introduction

We take an integrated cross-discipline approach which ensures our clients benefit from the full range of our expertise. This tailored approach to projects allows us to take full advantage of new practices and respond intelligently to change. Our services include development management, EIA, heritage, placemaking, data-driven urban design, robust sustainability solutions and more.

Our approach is evidence and data-driven. We have developed in-house framework tools that we apply to projects nationwide, applying our insights and research to sector-specific products.

GIS and Spatial Analytics
The insight and analytical skills of Lichfields GIS and Spatial Analytical team helps clients understand the dynamics of people, places and business. The work informs commercial decision-making and policy formulation at all levels. Services include: data visualisation; catchment area mapping; interactive mapping; thematic ‘heat’ maps; spatial analysis; and visibility analysis.

Digital consultation
Lichfields offers the full range of digital, virtual and more traditional forms of consultation, which are integrated with our planning service. We can mobilise quickly. Focussing on the issues that matter most to our clients and the communities where they work. We create websites that take the audience on a journey through the project, enabling an interactive community engagement experience.

Economics
Our Economics team regularly supports landowners and developers in the promotion of strategic developments. We harness the power of data to help shape strategy and policy development, forecast growth and development needs, assess land use requirements, and test the feasibility and economic benefits of investment, and present evidence to public inquiries and examinations.

Our products

Evaluate: making the economic case for development and measuring economic impact

Evaluate strengthens the economic justification for a development strategy or individual project by considering the full range of local benefits. Our analysis draws on the latest data and best practice and guidance, we use graphics tools to present analysis in a visual way, through user-friendly infographics.

Affordable: Making the case for affordable housing and its wider benefits

Affordable provides an authoritative mechanism to identify the need for, and benefits of, affordable housing delivery. It is a data-led approach that strengthens the justification for a development strategy or individual project by considering the full range of local factors and benefits associated with the delivery of affordable housing.

Bedspace – assessing the need for Purpose Built Student Accommodation

Bedspace helps clients demonstrate the need for PBSA through an evidence-led quantitative analysis of current and past trends in student growth. Demonstrating the current supply pipeline and growth strategies of the relevant institutions to identify capacity for further PBSA in any defined location.

Carepacity – making the case for care, retirement and sheltered housing

Carepacity helps developers assess the potential for older people’s housing and presents the best possible case for development. It offers a package of tools that assesses the potential and then demonstrates the case for development by; Evaluating the need; Quantifying the benefits and impacts; and Enabling delivery.

Healthier – data-driven planning for assessing health impacts

Healthier integrates various UK guidance methodologies for Heath Impact Assessments into a comprehensive framework. Paired with Lichfields’ expertise in planning, economics, community engagement and GIS analysis, it offers a holistic assessment of health impacts arising from new developments.

Locate:Solar – finding and developing suitable sites for ground-mounted solar farms

Locate: Solar brings together technical data on capacity and yield, GIS-mapped environmental information and our in-depth understanding of the planning system. From this, we undertake constraints and viability analysis for use in; initial site finding exercises at feasibility stage; and preparing Alternative Site Assessments at planning application stage.

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Community Engagement using digital consultations

Lichfields offers fully integrated physical and digital engagements to broaden community reach throughout the consultation process, ensuring each project is seen by the audience who cares.

Geographical Information Systems and Mapping

Lichfields combines a data-driven approach with our teams expertise producing maps and visualisations that inform commercial decision-making and policy formulations.

Planning and Urban Design Services

Lichfields offers an end-to-end service from project inception to planning permission. Our designers add value by identifying opportunities and using their practical knowledge to deliver solutions.

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Introduction

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Bringing innovation to every project.

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