Planning Consultncy.
We provide strategic planning expertise that bridges policy, design and delivery — unlocking opportunity through insight, intelligence and collaboration.
Our approach combines creative thinking with technical precision to shape frameworks and secure permissions that deliver long-term value.
At UKSD, planning is a process of strategy and vision — connecting development ambition with environmental and community responsibility.
We navigate complex policy and regulatory landscapes with clarity and diplomacy, guiding clients through each stage of the planning journey from concept to consent.
Every project is informed by context — economic, social and environmental — ensuring decisions are robust, responsive and deliverable.
Working alongside our design, masterplanning and environmental teams, we create planning strategies that align creativity with feasibility.
This integrated structure allows us to balance innovation and compliance, achieving outcomes that are both visionary and achievable.
Our experience spans major residential and mixed-use schemes, rural diversification and agricultural projects, minerals and waste operations, commercial developments and strategic land promotion.
Across every sector, we help clients realise potential, resolve complexity and shape places that contribute positively to the built and natural environment.
Our Expertise.
Planning Applications, Appeals & Variations
Strategic Land Promotion & Local Plan Representation
Development Plan, Policy & Site Promotion
Minerals, Waste & Quarry Planning
Rural Diversification, Agricultural & Estate Development
Environmental, Landscape & Impact Assessment Coordination
Heritage, Conservation & Setting Advice
Community, Stakeholder & Political Engagement
Planning Statements, Design & Access Statements
Sectors We Work In.
Our planning expertise extends across a diverse range of sectors — each informed by a detailed understanding of policy, place and purpose.
Residential & Mixed-Use Environments
Hospitality, Leisure & Destination Development
Sports, Health & Wellbeing
Commercial, Workplace & Cultural Projects
Rural Diversification, Estates & Heritage
Regeneration, Strategic Land & Masterplanning
Minerals, Waste & Quarry Operations
Infrastructure, Industrial & Energy Development
We work across all sectors of the built and natural environment — delivering planning consultancy for any scale or typology.
Whether navigating complex strategic sites, guiding rural diversification, or shaping large mixed-use frameworks, UKSD provides clarity, strategy and expertise from concept to consent.
Our Approach.
We approach planning as a creative and strategic discipline — where design, policy and delivery work in harmony. - Through experience, collaboration and precision, we craft planning solutions that unlock potential and create places of purpose and longevity.
Planning is the balance between vision and reality — strategic, responsive and enduring.
Why UKSD.
Our strength lies in uniting creative insight with technical rigour.
We bring clarity to complexity, building consensus and securing results that stand the test of time.
From local applications to national strategies, UKSD delivers planning advice that is informed, trusted and transformative.
From vision to delivery, we plan with purpose.
