Planning Consultancy

Tetra Tech provides expert planning consultancy services that shape resilient communities and sustainable infrastructure across the UK and Ireland. Our planning consultants help clients navigate complex planning systems, promote land for development, and secure permissions for infrastructure, commercial, residential, and mixed-use schemes.

Our teams have deep expertise throughout the entire planning life cycle. We combine a clear understanding of emerging development trends to secure permissions that meet our clients’ needs. We work with public and private clients across the property, renewable energy, and infrastructure sectors. Our expert team combines policy insight, technical rigour, and stakeholder engagement to deliver best-value results and maximise development potential.

Our planning expertise is supported by in-house specialists in environmental impact, transport, ecology, landscape, and heritage, to provide a comprehensive planning and environmental consultancy service.

Development Management

Tetra Tech provides expert support throughout the development management process, helping clients secure planning permissions and approvals across all sectors.

• Feasibility reports
• Pre-application consultation and submissions
• Planning and development advice
• Preparation, negotiation, and management of planning applications
• Planning strategy and risk assessments
• Compulsory purchase and viability assessments
• Design and access statements, planning statements
• Environmental impact assessments, screening, and scoping
• Community consultation and engagement
• Discharge of planning conditions
• Planning appeals (written representations, hearings, and enquiries)
• Section 5 Exempted Development Declaration requests
• Extension of duration applications
• Planning enforcement

Strategic Planning Consultancy

We help clients navigate local and regional planning frameworks to unlock land for development and achieve maximum value uplift. Our approach combines technical rigour, stakeholder alignment, and policy insight to create deliverable, long-term land development strategies.

• Local plan monitoring and intelligence gathering
• Submissions on draft strategic or local development plans and government policy consultation
• Strategic housing and employment land assessments
• Engagement with policymakers and local authorities
• Evidence-base preparation and policy drafting
• Representation at public examinations
• Advice on plan-making and infrastructure delivery
• Strategic environmental assessment
• Social infrastructure audits

Major Energy and Infrastructure Projects

We guide clients through complex planning regimes across the UK and Ireland, ensuring efficient consenting for significant infrastructure projects, including those under Section 36 of the Electricity Act, Development Consent Orders (DCOs), and Strategic Infrastructure Developments (SIDs) (Wales), Scottish National Developments (NPF4), Strategic Infrastructure Development (ROI), and Regionally Significant Projects (NI).

• Advice on thresholds and project classification
• Planning and environmental feasibility assessments
• Statutory pre-application consultation
• Consenting strategies
• Preparation and coordination of environmental impact scoping and statutory consultation
• Project design
• Drafting and submission of DCO, SIP and Section 36 applications
• Stakeholder and community engagement strategies
• Common land applications
• Integrated environmental impact assessment
• Expert witness and examination support
• Discharge of conditions
• Strategic infrastructure development alterations applications

Strategic Site Planning and Promotion Consultancy

Our team delivers strategic land promotion strategies to help landowners, developers, and promoters secure allocations and planning approvals for development land.

• Site identification and feasibility appraisal
• Representation at local plan reviews and examinations
• Representations to draft development plans
• Preparation of promotional material and planning evidence
• Coordination of technical inputs and masterplanning
• Engagement with local authorities and stakeholders
• Negotiation of planning obligations and development frameworks
• Management and submission of planning applications
• Coordination of planning appeals and expert witness capability