LPDF Values
Championing an evidence-led planning system that delivers sustainable homes, communities and economic growth.
Our aim is to work with government, local authorities and communities up and down the country to enhance the planning process and deliver the new, sustainable homes and communities this country needs
- Working in a positive and cooperative way with central and local government and key stakeholders, to deliver a planning system capable of supplying the homes and employment space we need.
- Promoting research and an evidence-led approach to policy development.
- Increasing the supply of new homes to meet demand and make home ownership a realistic possibility for all those who aspire to it.
- Ensuring that we build the affordable homes of all types and tenures that this country so desperately needs.
- Delivering new employment space to meet demand from businesses and support economic growth.
- Championing the impact of increased housing delivery on reducing intergenerational unfairness.
- Creating well-designed, high-quality and sustainable places to live and work.
- Educating and informing about the social, environmental and economic benefits of development.
- Supporting diversity of delivery in the market and championing SME developers.
- Promoting diversity and inclusivity within the sector.
Cratus Group
Affiliate
Cratus Group is a leading communications consultancy, driven by insights and experience, powered by a passion for delivering change.
The Cratus team supports clients across the built environment sector to navigate the politics of planning and engage meaningfully with stakeholders and local communities.
Specialisms include:
- Strategic land to Reserved Matters - wraparound service supporting clients in every aspect of communications throughout the planning process.
- Public consultation - combining traditional and digital consultation using our Cratus Engage platform, we work with clients and communities to build trust, obtain meaningful feedback, and develop understanding
- Post submission engagement - we promote the benefits of schemes and secure support through effective, integrated campaigns and use the determination period to engage closely with stakeholders across the board.
- Cratus Communities - a specialist team, dedicated to creating trust and strong connections between communities, developers, and local authorities, delivering meaningful, integrated engagement services pre and post consent.
Our impact – helping clients understand the language and context of local government and local decision-making. Reducing commercial and political risk and creating the environment for positive planning approvals and beneficial new communities.
We’re more than an agency. We’re change makers.
Irwin Mitchell
Affiliate
Irwin Mitchell provides legal services to land promoters, developers, private and institutional landowners operating from 15 locations across the UK.
The firm is ranked as a market-leading law firm in the independent Legal 500 and Chambers UK guides, with over 250 lawyers personally recommended. Our real estate team consists of over 130 real estate lawyers with specialists focusing on strategic land and residential development. We combine the expertise of our real estate and planning lawyers with our construction, public law, tax and corporate specialists to help anticipate hurdles as we guide our clients through the development process and beyond.
Owl Homes
Full Member
Established in 2015, Owl Homes is a privately-owned, forward-thinking home builder, specialising in producing sustainable, high-quality residential properties across the Midlands. With a strong reputation for swift decision making, land acquisition is at the heart of what we do, with immediate and strategic opportunities both of ongoing interest.
We are currently on a pathway to grow the business into a medium sized regional housebuilder building c.500 homes per year across the Midlands by 2027.
TerraQuest & Planning Portal
Affiliate
TerraQuest delivers high-quality support, data, and technology services designed for local councils, developers, housing associations, architects, and other professional services.
As the company behind Planning Portal – the national planning application service for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, TerraQuest can provide unparalleled insight into proposed development data and assist businesses in identifying opportunities and trends.
As founders in land referencing technology, TerraQuest leads the market in land finding and acquisition services. With trusted partnerships across both the public and private sectors, their client portfolio includes City & Country, Redrow Homes and EditLand.
Hawridge Land
Full Member
Hawridge Land is part of the W.E. Black Group of companies, one of the South East’s leading SME housebuilders, with an unrivalled reputation for location, quality and design.
W.E. Black Ltd was founded in Uxbridge in 1919 and since built over 10,000 new homes throughout the Home Counties, which are today still highly sought after.
We specialise in strategic development land promotion, focusing primarily upon the delivery of planning consents on both greenfield and brownfield sites in the South East of England. Our experienced team have over 150 years of experience in the housebuilding, planning and development industry.
Neame Sutton
Affiliate
Neame Sutton is an independent Chartered Town Planning practice with extensive experience in the promotion of residential and commercial development projects across the country.
FREETHS
Affiliate
We are a leading full-service UK law firm, with 1,200 freethinking colleagues all working together to make the future better for our people, planet, clients and communities.
We are a big firm, without the attitude. We get our momentum from our guiding values – smart, bold and together.
We are friendly, straight-talking and use our expertise and integrity to deliver smart legal services and a dynamic, inclusive and rewarding experience.
Because of all this and more, we’re trusted by leading household names such as Aldi, Tarmac, Experian and Lloyds Bank, as well as charities, universities and private individuals, to think beyond the norm and get the best results.
We have been named as Law Firm of the Year at The Legal Business Awards 2024 and consistently rank in the top tier of the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners guides.
Because we deliver so much for so many, the smartest talent and most selective clients choose Freeths.
Inspired Villages
Affiliate
Inspired Villages is a developer and operator of retirement communities in the UK who are majority owned and fully funded by Legal & General. A retirement community may also be referred to as retirement villages, extra care or housing-with-care combines housing options for older people with tailored support services. Residents rent or own a property to maintain their privacy and independence with the reassurance of 24-hour on-site staff, communal facilities and optional care and support as needed. Inspired Villages has six operational villages in the UK, with a further 14 legally secured and under construction, with planning permission or in planning and has aspirations to deliver 60 villages within the next ten years.
Eddisons
Affiliate
Eddisons is a leading firm of property consultants, specialising in supporting the public and private sectors to achieve their organisational goals. We are a forward-thinking business that is dedicated to finding realistic ways to improve living and working, through property and construction solutions.
Our nationwide team provides building and project consultancy services to a variety of sectors. Surveying, transport planning and design, and property agency – along with many other divisions – work together to create a holistic and cohesive network for clients to gain bespoke results.
We help our clients through collaborating during the planning and strategy stage, ensuring that they are a key part of the job every step of the way. Not only do we complete the work, but we are well-experienced in sourcing and securing teams for larger projects too.
Our role in the built environment is wide-spanning but is also quite simple: we are here to turn opportunities into successes, providing a helping hand across the lifecycle – from acquisition to execution.
ESP Utilities Group
Affiliate
With 25 years’ experience and over 1.1 million Residential and Industrial & Commercial connections, ESP Utilities Group adopts and maintains heat, electricity, gas, water, and wastewater, across the UK.
As the leader of independent adoption, we deliver cost-effective solutions with flexible design standards, transparent assets values, rapid approvals, and unparalleled expertise across regulated utilities.
Mac Mic Land
Full Member
Mac Mic Group has operated for nearly a 100 years and is a private, fourth generation, family owned property company established in Glasgow but now with offices in London and Bristol, with a Central office opening in 2023.
Over the last decade, Mac Mic Group has diversified its service lines, selling its housebuilding business in 2022 to concentrate on Strategic Land Promotions, Investments and expanding the PRS portfolio in Edinburgh and London. In addition to the extensive land holdings in Scotland, the Strategic Land Business now controls some 3600 acres across 44 projects in England. The company is one of the leading strategic land companies in southern England with sites ranging from 5 to 330 acres; all being promoted for residential, commercial, energy or mixed use schemes.
Waddeton Park Ltd
Full Member
Waddeton Park Ltd is a privately owned company specialising in the promotion of land, primarily but not exclusively, for residential uses, mainly across the south and south west of England.
The Company has an excellent track record of successful delivery of many thousands of new homes over the last 20 years. The Company has worked in partnership with hundreds of private landowners promoting their land through the plan making and planning/appeals process, as well as with Local Authorities and other public sector bodies in promoting surplus public sector land for residential development as well as delivering land for new schools and other local infrastructure projects.
We work with all the major house builders as well as many small and medium sized developers on projects ranging from major urban extensions of several thousand new homes to small scale village projects of a few homes.
As a result the Company has a thorough understanding of the numerous constraints to bringing forward sufficient new homes needed to tackle the chronic under provision of land for new homes, which continues to contribute to the UK’s housing crisis.