The increasing pressure to re-use brown-field land for residential, commercial and leisure purposes requires a multi-faceted response to bringing forward projects.

Our regeneration team combines planning and development knowledge with specialist multi-disciplinary expertise to realise public sector aspirations and private sector profitability. This requires a detailed familiarity with the UK and EU grant regimes, methods of applying for financial support, and the ways and means of structuring projects and programmes.

The team's advice in such projects typically includes:

•  Economic analysis

•  Development appraisal

•  Urban design assessment

•  Community consultation

•  Goal and strategy formulation

•  Project identification

•  Partnership 'engineering'

We have acted for various public authorities including studies that involved a derelict colliery in north east England, a deprived area in Merseyside and a depressed former open-cast mining community in Cornwall. In these cases our economic, commercial and environmental skills combined to produce positive solutions.