Planning for Sustainability

Planning for Sustainability provides strategic advice and project support regarding the sustainability and environmental agenda in the area of land use planning and development projects. The range of services provided includes the development of Sustainability Strategies, development of Climate Change Strategies, development and implementation of training programmes, Project Environmental Management and Environment Impact Assessments.

The concept of sustainability is now a fundamental part of the land use planning process and development of construction projects. The traditional environmental objectives for topics such as biodiversity, contaminated land and pollution prevention are now complemented with new and ambitious objectives regarding the efficient use of resources and adaptation and management of topics related to climate change such as carbon management, flood risk resilience and the provision of renewable energy.

These new objectives pose challenges to policy developers at a strategic level and development proposal applicants at a project level alike. Our services are aimed at helping policy developers, project managers and client organisations identifying the constraints and opportunities associated with sustainble development and support informed decission making from the earliest opportunity.

Analysing the key constraints and opportunities forms one of our key services and it is aimed to assist in developing a project sustainability strategy and facilitate early considerations in the development of the specification and design of the porject. We believe it is an essential tool in managing the sustainability requirements effectively and have developed a cost effective process in delivering this.