Service · Councils and developers
Evidence that survives a planning committee.
Purpose-built student accommodation and shared living need assessment, written to be scrutinised by the other side.
The problem
Councils are asked to make decisions on purpose-built student accommodation using evidence largely produced by applicants. Independent analysis changes the quality of that decision — and stands up when it is challenged.
What is included
- PBSA and shared-living need assessment
- HMO displacement analysis
- Pipeline and supply modelling
- Evidence base for local plan and policy positions
- Developer-side evidence for planning applications
Methodology stated, assumptions declared
Written to be scrutinised. Sources cited, assumptions on the page rather than buried, and a methodology a planning officer will recognise.
Common questions
Asked often enough to answer here.
Do you act for councils and developers on the same question?
Not on the same site or the same local plan. We act for both types of client, and we will decline an instruction where we hold or have recently held a conflicting position. Where there is any question, it is raised before an engagement rather than after.
Free first conversation
Tell us what is not working.
Most people arrive with a scheme that is not performing, an operator they cannot read, or a board paper due Friday. Any of those is a fine place to start. Thirty minutes, no proposal attached.