Consultants

Iceni is an award-winning consultancy with a positive, creative mindset seeking to provide the “skills of a planner with the instincts of a developer”. Whilst the technical specialisms that the company hold have widened, the fundamental objective remains the same. They are committed to putting client interests first and providing them with the tools to significantly improve their performance.

Iceni provides specialist advice in the fields of delivery; design; Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) management; engagement; heritage; planning; sustainable development and transport. Formed in 2005, Iceni is now a market leader and is the preferred consultancy for a fast-growing number of clients. With offices in Glasgow, London, and Manchester, they deliver on a variety of schemes across the UK.

Iceni Projects has considerable experience on residential projects; ranging from smaller boutique firms such as Regal Homes; Mayfair 500 through to FTSE house builders, such as Countryside Properties; Berkeley Homes, and Barratt Developments.

Case Study: Greenford Green
Iceni was instructed by Greystar to prepare an application at the former GSK headquarters and Sunblest bakery site in Ealing. This application obtained approval for a residential-led mix of uses including: 1,965 new homes (including an element of affordable housing); 21,443 sq.m of commercial and community space, a new primary school, a pedestrian bridge, car and cycle parking and landscaping. Iceni coordinated the planning application submission, including the EIA. Iceni is now acting to discharge the necessary conditions to enable Greystar to deliver the scheme on site.

Claridge Architects is an award-winning RIBA chartered London-based practice established by Marcus Claridge in 2004. Known for their contemporary, contextual and sensitive designs, working predominantly within an urban setting, the scale of their projects range from pop-up pavilions to entire urban blocks with multiple programmes and stakeholders.

They have expertise designing and delivering projects within the commercial, residential and educational sectors, detailed with precision and subtlety. With an in-depth knowledge of London planning policies and a strategic, solution driven approach, the practice has a growing reputation for delivering high quality residential development projects. The firm also has substantial experience working on both new-build and listed building refurbishments.

Case Study: Pershore Street
Pershore Street is a design-led, sustainable and contextually driven scheme. The brief was for a residential-led, mixed-use scheme with 379 residential units. Street level perimeter commercial units and landscaped areas provided active frontages and visual amenity on all elevations. The scheme went through rigorous experimentation, testing and discussion to evolve a massing to successfully engage with and improve the site and its surrounding context. The building heights follow similar contextual examples within the area. An increase in height on the eastern corner was implemented to provide a focal point for the two long vistas along the extensive street-scene on Pershore Street. In pursuit of a contemporary, yet contextually responsive design Claridge Architects carefully analysed the physical and cultural context to inform the architectural language to create a meaningful piece of bespoke architecture.

Pegasus Group is a leading UK development consultancy specialising in planning, design, environment, economics and heritage. Their services span the entire project process from planning through to design and delivery ensuring that they achieve optimal results.

Pegasus Group have more than 280 skilled and experienced staff operating from twelve offices throughout the UK. Their approach combines local and national understanding of the property and development industry across a wide variety of sectors to provide their clients with bespoke solutions to make their schemes successful and to maximise the value of each scheme. They have worked on some of the UK’s highest profile projects, developing excellent relationships with clients and winning awards in the process.

Case Study: Drake Circus, Plymouth
Pegasus Group secured planning permission for an exciting mixed-use development in the ‘tall building’ zone of Plymouth city centre. On behalf of a London based property development company, they put forward the plans comprising, 554 student bedrooms, 1,858 square metres of Grade ‘A’ office space, a 105-bedroom hotel and 149 square metres of flexible retail accommodation.

The economic benefits of the scheme to the region are expected to be substantial, with the plans supporting 374 full time jobs, construction investment over the two and half year build programme estimated at £38m, and £8.4m predicted to be spent annually by the new students.

Pegasus Group also provided a townscape assessment, landscape and urban design services on the project.