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Commercial planning that pays off

Our expert teams help to successfully unlock opportunities, delivering ambitious projects across the UK commercial sector. Our expertise spans industrial and logistics, sports and leisure, retail and office, research and development and data centres. Every project is director-led, ensuring strategic oversight from start to finish with an expert team to deliver efficiently and effectively.

Overview

We adapt to projects of all scales – if it matters to you, it matters to us. Our relationships across authorities and decision-makers mean we understand when to engage, securing planning outcomes that work in practice for occupiers. Some of our notable recent successes include the 8msq ft, 300 ha Green Belt release for West Midlands Interchange SR) and the multi-award winning, 98% BREEAM accredited Vanguard Logistics Park.

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Highlights

We support clients at every stage of the planning journey, from early site acquisition and due diligence, through planning strategy and applications, to delivery, discharge of conditions and post-consent amendments. Our clients include leading names across the industrial, logistics, and commercial sectors, reflecting our ability to deliver nationally significant and award-winning schemes. With deep sector knowledge, strong local authority relationships and a pragmatic, solutions-focused approach, we ensure every project is not only secured but works in practice.

The Detail

Quod advises clients from a wide range of sectors and across different consenting regimes. We are proud of our reputation for providing advice which adds value for clients, particularly on larger or more complex projects requiring a strategic approach.

OUR CLIENTS

Quod works with some of the UK’s leading commercial developers, operators and investors. We support high-profile names such as Prologis, DHL, ABP, SEGRO, Equation, Valor, Graftongate, TJ Morris, Harrods, Leeds United, and London City Lionesses.

We also advise development managers, retailers, and institutional investors – including Aberdeen Standard Investments, Columbia Threadneedle, Canada Life, Ediston, LaSalle, Aviva, Lend Lease, Hammerson, Grosvenor, Landsec, British Land, Paloma Capital, Savills, Royal London, Wickes and Next – providing practical, sector-specific planning advice that helps unlock opportunities and deliver successful, operational developments.

"Quod go far beyond traditional planning advisers. Their strategic and commercial insight adds value at every stage of the development process. From stakeholder engagement to detailed design and regulatory navigation, they consistently deliver best in class advice and practical, workable solutions. Their clarity and consistency of service have become a real asset to our portfolio."

Shaun Hose

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Head of UK Equity, PGIM Real Estate

Total industrial floorspace consented over the past decade
Hectares of land released from the Green Belt
Of retail floorspace consented

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