An eye for detail. Enabling development expansion.

Flood map data for the flood zone of a minor watercourse in Nottinghamshire restricts the number of properties in a planned 87-unit housing development.

Flood map data used for planning purposes is sometimes based on coarse modelling techniques that can …

Getting to the point. Winning consent for development.

An 80-unit residential development is proposed for a factory site prone to groundwater-dominated river flooding in Wiltshire. Barriers to planning consent have left the client on the verge of dropping the development.

Several years of modelling analysis and negotiation with …

The going is good. A new model for success.

The Huntingdon racecourse and hotel are on the floodplain of the Alconbury Brook and prone regular floods. Access to the site and facilities is jeopardised.

A plan to raise the access road was strongly opposed by the Environment Agency (EA) …

Pooling resources. Naturally integrated water management.

130 dwellings on 4.5 hectares of largely greenfield land in Solihull. A natural watercourse crosses the site and flows into a narrow culvert under a local road, making it prone to flooding.

Planning conditions for development included:

  • slowing down the