STAGE / A national perspective
One strategy. One team. One point of contact.
London / River Thames
Planning intelligence / Complex development
Strategic planning advice for complex land, development and infrastructure across the UK.
Our approach
STAGE advises on planning matters where scale, complexity, value or risk demand more than conventional consultancy.
We combine planning intelligence, strategic thinking and specialist coordination to identify the route forward, secure consent and move complex projects towards implementation.
Explore our services97%
Planning success rate
Our process 03
Planning / Masterplanning / Project leadership
STAGE originates the ideas, leads the masterplanning and manages the planning project from start to finish. We bring the strategy, professional team and application programme together, then navigate the route through consent, discharge of conditions and implementation.
We assemble our trusted consultants or coordinate your existing team. STAGE scopes and manages the additional surveys, specialist reports and design work needed to support the application, keeping responsibilities, dependencies and the next decision clear.
One strategy. One team. One accountable point of contact.
Originate the idea. Assess the asset, planning context and constraints before committing to the next stage.
Lead the masterplan and align the planning, design and commercial objectives around a clear route forward.
Appoint and coordinate the required specialists. Manage report scopes, surveys, drawings and interdependent advice.
Manage the submission, council engagement and technical responses. Keep the team focused as the application progresses.
Programme the discharge of conditions, coordinate further evidence and manage planning matters through implementation.
Specialist inputs are tailored to the site and the application. Our coordinated team can provide, as required:
Chartered planning expertise, RIBA Chartered and ARB-registered external architects, and coordinated RICS Chartered Surveyors. Specialist appointments are defined around the needs of your project.
Sector imagery combines photography with illustrative development concepts.
Institutional
Planning can materially change the risk, value and future of an asset.
Discuss an asset opportunityFor banks, lenders, family offices, asset managers, investors and professional advisers.
UK coastal context
Planning strategy / expansion / mixed use
Operational land / future use
Planning / environmental coordination / restoration
Settlement edge / residential opportunity
Major residential strategy / land & infrastructure
Illustrative sector studies.
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PLANNING
OPPORTUNITY
MARKETS
Planning / Markets / Opportunity.
STAGE × Wollaston Hanks
Planning can identify and unlock an opportunity. Some clients then require development, investment, repositioning or delivery capability to realise it.
Wollaston Hanks provides access to the wider development platform.
Waterfront regeneration / Concept visualisation
FromUnderutilised asset
ToA thriving destination
Complex land. Difficult consent. Major opportunity.
Discuss a project
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