PLANNING

Quod’s planning team provides clear, commercially focused advice to help secure permission and deliver successful development. We work across all sectors at every stage, from early feasibility and site acquisition through to applications, appeals, inquiries, examinations and post-consent delivery.

Our director-led approach ensures projects benefit from senior strategic oversight, supported by planners who understand the complexities of the UK system. We develop robust strategies, manage applications, lead stakeholder engagement and coordinate teams. Expect evidence-led site promotion, masterplan input, mitigation and management plans and independent technical review.

Whether unlocking complex sites, navigating sensitive planning issues, or progressing major developments, our team focuses on practical solutions that create value, mitigate risk and move projects efficiently from ambition to consent.

INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING

Quod’s infrastructure team combines strategy, technical expertise, and practical experience to provide clear advice on consenting, environmental, and socio-economic strategies for major infrastructure. We work closely with clients and multidisciplinary teams, taking a pragmatic approach that de-risks delivery and secures robust, defensible consents.

Our services include consenting strategy, environmental planning, socio-economic assessments, stakeholder engagement and expert witnesses. We also provide strategic case development, including economic impact assessments, workforce and supply chain strategies, recruitment and training initiatives and community programmes.

We advise on policy engagement and funding strategies, public investment cases, securing incentives, and influencing infrastructure and energy policy through early engagement. Our team ensures major projects are deliverable, financially and socially sustainable and align with wider requirements.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT AND STRATEGY

Quod’s teams present strategic and community impacts of investment choices and development options. We make compelling cases for funding – in relevant language – and work with complex sites to realise real value across sectors, from neighbourhood mixed-use through to nuclear.

We provide strategic and technical advice on: macro-economic impact; placemaking; social value; community infrastructure; Business Case and funding strategies (OBC/FBC/BCR) and Green Book; Section 106; socio-economic, health and equality impact.

We combine economic and analytics with clear, concise presentation using graphics and plain language to showcase complexities in ways that are accessible and persuasive. We take a practical, commercial, proactive approach throughout the process. Our advice shapes better outcomes, supports effective decision-making, delivering genuine successes.

DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

Quod works at the intersection of commercial viability, planning policy and deliverability – helping secure optimal consents and develop fundable, deliverable strategies. In a constrained policy and funding landscape, early identification of risk, priorities and pathways is critical. As is effective collaboration with stakeholders.

Expertise includes: Development Viability – financial modelling, feasibility testing, scheme optimisation, and planning viability, including non-residential uses and affordable workspace; Affordable Housing – tenure advisory, needs analysis, estate regeneration, grant/subsidy identification, and operational/disposal guidance; Planning Strategy – evidence-based development cases, housing need analysis, wider benefits arguments, and support through Section 106; Funding & Delivery – grant and infrastructure funding strategies, investment partner engagement, and affordable housing disposals.

We provide expert witnesses for applications, litigation and compulsory purchase matters.

HOUSING ADVISORY

Quod’s Housing Advisory team provides tailored advice to private and public sector clients across the living sector, including market sale, affordable housing, estate regeneration, Build-to-Rent, Co-Living, PBSA, and later living.

Our expertise includes: Local Housing Need – evidence on need, affordability and strategy to inform the right mix; Affordable Housing – advising on amount, type and tenure, and negotiating detailed Section 106 terms; Grant Applications – preparing affordable housing grant submissions, including GLA and Homes England; Registered Providers – advising on forward sales of affordable housing land and buildings; Estate Regeneration – supporting projects from appraisal through design, engagement, planning, and delivery.

Services can be provided independently or integrated with Quod’s Development Economics team for a fully coordinated approach.

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING

Quod’s team delivers clear, insight-driven advice, helping secure consent, manage risk, and progress confidently. We shape strategy by aligning evidence, design and delivery considerations to produce robust, defensible outcomes.

We support projects across infrastructure, living, commercial and strategic development, providing end-to-end advice. Input ranges from early site appraisal and evidence-led promotion to masterplan and design stage input, EIA strategy and ES delivery, stakeholder and regulatory engagement, mitigation and management plans and independent technical review. We also provide trusted support through inquiries and examinations.

Clients choose Quod for our strategy, senior-led insight and clear judgement, helping inform decisions and avoid delays. We add value across nationally significant infrastructure, major residential, regeneration, commercial and data-driven development.

CIL

Quod is the leading provider of CIL services in England with unrivalled experience. We are the industry leaders in developing CIL strategies, forecasting cashflow and managing challenging and complex developments with multiple phases. We have good practical working relationships with Charging Authorities and have a track record of resolving complex disputes without the need for formal appeal. We provide legally robust, clear and commercially focused advice.

We have a bespoke and detailed approach that provides clear and transparent information to Charging Authorities to reduce their review time and manage risk. Quod’s Managing Director, Tom Dobson sat on the Government’s CIL Review Group and we continue to have close working relationships with government and leading legal teams in the sector.

EXPERT WITNESS

Quod provides expert witness services for planning appeals and inquiries, compulsory purchase advice, due diligence advice, and planning project management.

Our in-house specialists work alongside our planning teams to provide clear, strategic advice and robust evidence which strengthens projects and supports successful outcomes. Whether preparing and presenting expert evidence, managing the planning aspects of large infrastructure schemes, or supporting funding and delivery strategies, we bring practical experience and commercial understanding to every project.

By combining these specialist services with our wider planning expertise, we help clients unlock complex sites, manage planning risk and mitigate delays. We move projects forward efficiently and confidently, ensuring development ambitions are successfully delivered from strategy through to consent and beyond.

DUE DILIGENCE

Quod provides robust, commercially focused due diligence, supporting clients across all sectors. Our advice is tailored to the specifics of each case, providing clear insight into planning risk, opportunity, deliverability and value enhancement.

We work closely alongside legal teams and professional advisors to undertake detailed reviews of planning histories, designations, constraints and site-specific issues. This helps identify risk early and can highlight additional flexibility or value.

Our team provides clear recommendations for each site, including utilising permitted development rights under the GPDO, pursuing planning applications, or securing certainty through Certificates of Lawful Existing Use or Development (CLUEDs).

By combining detailed technical analysis with commercial awareness, we give clients the confidence to progress efficiently and with certainty on their position.

STRATEGIC ADVISORY

Quod provides strategic advisory services to the public, private, and charitable sectors, supporting policy makers, delivery partners and key enablers achieve better outcomes. Our bespoke advice draws on a multidisciplinary team of experts to deliver bespoke, high-value, insight-led strategy.

Our services span development strategy, including the role of development corporations and delivery models, aligning growth plans with financial, operational and workforce requirements. We shape value propositions and narratives reinforcing wider organisational vision and supporting delivery.

We also advise on integrated infrastructure and development strategies, financial modelling, funding approaches and strategic partnerships. We help clarify skills, risk appetite, return expectations and governance structures. Our expertise includes project conception, policy engagement, review and refinement and inquiry or expert witness services.