Savills is the UK’s largest planning consultancy by number of chartered town planners, and last year our team secured consent for 16,000 new homes and 2 million square metres of commercial floorspace.
With 20 offices across the UK, the team has experience across all planning sectors, combining national expertise with local knowledge of planning policy and its interpretation. The Manchester team consists of 13 planners, working on a variety of developments within the city centre and across the North West.
We work closely with colleagues from development services to ensure we achieve best value outcomes for our clients, we provide bespoke and fully integrated services for landowners, developers, occupiers and investors across the development life-cycle.
Positive public sector intervention in Stockport town centre
At the same time as the Greater Manchester Combined Authority brought out the revised GMSF for consultation, it also commenced consultation on a Mayoral Development Corporation for the area...
GMSF: pragmatic or radical?
In rewriting the GMSF, Mayor Andy Burnham had to produce a document that all councils in Greater Manchester could support. The draft is written to please everybody, but runs...
Change in legislation for Local Planning Authorities
On 1 October 2018 The Town and Country Planning (Pre-commencement Conditions) Regulations 2018 come into force in England.
Urban space and Edinburgh Fringe: all the world’s a stage
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is unrivalled, not just for performance content but also its manipulation of urban space.
This is Manchester… as you’ve never seen it before
Manchester’s ever-changing skyline is about to undergo further transformation. These graphics of the changes taking place by land-use paint an interesting picture of the property market in the city....
The revised NPPF: will it fix the housing crisis?
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has issued its consultation on a revised National Planning Policy Framework. Here we round up the new measures and explore their...
Should Greater Manchester be squeezing the PIPs a bit harder to deliver new homes?
Brownfield registers allowing Planning Permission in Principle came into force at the end of 2017, but not a single site across Greater Manchester will benefit from the new rules....
Will increasing planning fees improve planning outcomes?
In an announcement made last week, a timeline was set out for the introduction of the planning application fee increase.
Manchester Mayor – ahead of the curve?
Today’s speech by Theresa May at the Conservative Party conference echoed many of the housing ideas outlined in Andy Burnham's electoral campaign - this is likely to be good...
Manchester, time to lead a Northern Congress?
The recent debate around Government announcements for Crossrail 2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail has led Andy Burnham to highlight how "the North" loses out in parliament to "the South"...
