Adams Hendry Consulting Ltd is a leading, independent UK Town Planning consultancy with a reputation for providing impartial and creative advice on a wide range of planning and environmental issues. We specialise in piloting major commercial and public infrastructure projects through to consent and implementation, and work on a range of planning projects for public and private sector clients.

Established over 170 years ago, today Bidwells is one of the UK's leading property consultancies. We employ almost 500 people in 12 offices across England and Scotland and provide a full range of services across the Commercial, Residential and Rural sectors. Being a multidiscipline firm, we have almost 40 specialist teams which focus on helping our clients achieve their short, medium, and long term development goals. This includes an EIA Team with a proven national track record of securing planning consent across a variety of development sectors including:

• Energy
• Residential and commercial development
• Retail/leisure
• Waste management.

Established in 1960, CampbellReith are a medium-sized multidisciplinary engineering consultancy providing environmental, transportation, civil, geotechnical and structural engineering services to public and private sector clients throughout the UK and overseas. We are one of only 15 consultancies appointed to the Homes and Communities Agency Engineering Framework.

Our EIA team was set up over ten years ago and has since developed a strong track record of delivering complex projects across a broad range of development sectors. The multidisciplinary nature of the practice allows our EIA team to draw on a wealth of in-house knowledge and technical expertise, enabling us to deliver a service of the highest quality at all stages of the EIA process.

ENVIRON is one of the few wholly environmental consulting firms globally. For over 20 years, we have been successfully delivering clients’ development ambitions through the planning and consenting process. Our combination of strategic advice, technical excellence, quality, commercial acumen, and a strong focus on delivery, means we facilitate development consent efficiently, without compromising deliverability. Our attention to quality and best practice builds strong relationships with stakeholders, benefiting clients in private and public sectors alike. We specialise in acting as Lead EIA Consultants, taking ownership of the management and delivery of the overall impact assessment and Environmental Statement; coordinating technical specialists from within ENVIRON and outside. We act too as SEA/Sustainability Appraisal consultants, and are recognised as a UK leader in this specialist field. Our expertise spans renewables to urban regeneration; mixed used masterplans to energy projects; infrastructure to manufacturing. With an in-house team of over 50 dedicated EIA and SEA managers and technical specialists in all the relevant disciplines, we have the depth and breadth of capability to meet our clients’ most challenging requirements.

We are proud to have been a member of IEMA since 1992 and a Registered EIA Practice since 1993. We are prouder still to be among the first to participate in IEMA’s Quality Mark initiative.

From a range of services, we have developed a leading global multi-disciplinary consultancy specialising in integrated environmental engineering design and management services.

Our principles are founded on innovation, integration and environmental sustainability providing high quality, leading-edge advice to clients.

We provide the full range of environmental services including technical assessments, R&D commissions, civil engineering infrastructure design, and management. We work in partnership with private and public sector clients.

Halcrow employs over 4000 professional and technical staff in 31 international and 32 UK offices. Environmental staff currently support commissions in the UK, Hungary, Georgia, Russia, Brazil, Chile, The Philippines and the Middle East.

Land Use Consultants (LUC) is one of the country’s leading environmental consultancies and is dedicated to conserving and enhancing the environment and promoting sustainable development on behalf of our clients. LUC has over 100 professionally qualified staff located in offices in London, Bristol, Glasgow and Edinburgh and in addition to expertise in EIA, LUC has in-house specialist skills in ecology, landscape and visual impact assessment, planning and digital design. Our professional staff are members of recognised professional institutes including IEMA, IEEM, RTPI and the Landscape Institute.

LUC has over 40 years of experience in EIA, including renewable energy, transport projects, water resources, housing and new towns, industrial plants, minerals, waste management, agriculture and drainage. LUC is often involved in projects post-application through, for example, Public Inquiry work including provision of expert witness evidence, as design advisor during further project development and as ecological clerk of works during construction. Our EIA work is fully supported by our in-house GIS and graphics team.

LUC has also been commissioned to independently review Environmental Statements, undertake EIA research projects at national and European level, and prepare good practice guidance on behalf of government agencies. Members of LUC staff have also delivered EIA training and lectured on university EIA courses.

Nicholas Pearson Associates is a specialist EIA consultancy, with over 25 years experience of conducting Environmental Impact Assessments and preparing Environmental Statements for all sectors: housing, commercial, waste, minerals, transport, energy and water, both in the UK and overseas. The consultancy became Registered Impact Assessors with the IEMA in 1997 and joined the EIA Quality Mark scheme at its inception in April 2011. We are recognised for consistent high standards and understanding of clients’ needs. Nicholas Pearson Associates focus on accuracy and impartiality, with particular attention to the mitigation of potential impacts.

Services include:

• EIA screening, scoping and coordination
• ES preparation and review
• Landscape and visual impact assessment
• Ecological surveys, including protected species
• Ecological impact assessment and mitigation
• Historic landscape assessment and restoration
• Environmental design
• Landscape architecture
• Green infrastructure
• Public consultation
• GIS
• Graphic design, photomontages, exhibitions and presentations

Staff at Nicholas Pearson Associates were authors of the Environmental Impact Assessment Handbook – a Practical Guide for Planners, Developers and Communities Web: http://www.thomastelford.com/.

Parsons Brinckerhoff provides comprehensive environmental services for every type of project, every type of setting, every type of client.

We provide consultancy services to the highest environmental, social, ethical and professional standards, embracing the vital importance of sustainability in today’s world. The motivation of our staff to incorporate realistic but ambitious solutions through excellence can be seen in some of the UK’s highest profile environmental projects including several hundred EIA studies in the UK and overseas over the last 20 years.

In Europe, Africa and the Middle East we employ over 2,000 staff in 35 offices(15 in the UK), including over 150 environmental specialists, offering a full range of design, engineering and project and programme management services for infrastructure projects throughout the world. PB can support directly in the following areas:

• EIA management
• Stakeholder consultation
• Screening Requests and Scoping Studies
• Environmental Statements and Non-Technical Summaries
• Geology, hydrogeology and contamination
• Flood risk, drainage and water quality
• Noise and vibration
• Ecology
• Landscape and visual impact
• Planning
• Air quality
• Sustainability and community impacts
• Environmental engineering

Our team is respected for their integrity and professional knowledge and their professional and friendly approach; our personal commitment fosters an excellent working relationship with clients and fellow consultants.

Royal Haskoning is an international and multidisciplinary firm of consultants, architects and engineers. Our advisory services cover the broad spectrum that encompasses the sustainable interaction between people and their environment in regard to spatial development, infrastructure & transport, architecture & building, mechanical & electrical services, environment, water, coastal & rivers and maritime. We advise public and private sector organisations all over the world using our experience going back over 100 years and the skills of our 3200 consultants.

Savills is a multi-disciplinary firm of planning, development and property professionals. The Planning and Regeneration team comprises over 180 professionals in 15 locations across the UK. Our services are diverse, from strategic studies and site evaluation to landscape appraisal, urban design and environmental impact assessment. Savills has managed the EIA process for a range of large-scale and often complex proposals. These include water infrastructure and waste management facilities, energy projects, urban extensions, regeneration schemes and sports stadia. A key strength is our ability to bring together planning, environmental and property services in a way that secures a viable outcome.

Temple Group is a leading environmental and planning consultancy providing integrated multi-disciplinary services backed by strong project management credentials.

Since our inception, Temple has grown significantly to become one of the leading consultants in the environmental and planning industry, responsible for significant contributions in terms of policy, strategy, programmes and delivery.

We combine a wide range of technical skills and experience, with a commitment to the highest professional standards, whilst adopting an approach centred on innovation, best practice and sustainability principles. We deliver high quality Environmental Statements and provide EIA technical support either in a bespoke manner i.e. by individual EIA discipline or in a comprehensive form depending on the clients’ requirements. We also have a long track record in providing expert witness testimony at planning inquiries and parliamentary select committees.

Our approach is to carefully select the best team for the job and who will see the assignment through to its conclusion. We achieve this by integrating our highly experienced in- house team with our associates (120+ in number), which ensures that you have greater access to, and engagement with, senior personnel.

We take a proactive stance to capturing risks and opportunities at the outset, which ensures no surprises and that delivery timeframes and budgets are realistic. This approach brings wider benefits by allowing you to make decisions with confidence and allows you to take full advantage of opportunities whilst also being fully conversant with environmental and planning risks including approval and consent. We have a strong track record on delivering challenging and complex commissions within tight timescales, from inception through to completion.

Our extensive range of public and private sector clients in a wide range of sectors, together with our work for numerous professional bodies provides us with valuable industry insights and enables us to understand and anticipate market and policy trends.

Wardell Armstrong LLP is a multi-disciplinary consultancy with significant expertise and experience in mining, minerals, engineering and the natural and built environment.

With a history dated back 170 years, the consultancy today offers comprehensive services to both public and private sector clients. Specialist environmental impact assessment services include landscape, ecology, archaeology, hydrology/hydrogeology, contaminated land, noise, air quality, soil and sustainability assessments. Other services include ground engineering and geotechnics, civil and structural engineering, environmental sciences and engineering, waste resource management, land use planning, renewable energy and sustainable development, surface and underground mining engineering, and minerals management.

Our skills, coupled with wide experience on numerous projects both in the UK and overseas, underpin a quality of service for which the firm is renowned.

We employ over 350 professional, technical and administrative staff. Our Head Office is in Stoke-on-Trent, with regional offices in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leigh, London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sheffield, West Bromwich and have a subsidiary company, Wardell Armstrong International, based in Cornwall.