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.
Ardent Management
Affiliate
Compulsory purchase and compensation: Advising housebuilders and promoters affected by compulsory purchase.
Geomatics: Site engineering, land surveying, utility surveying and constraints plans.
Utilities: Securing new utility connections for developments
Brookbanks
Affiliate
Brookbanks is a uniquely positioned Master Developer and engineering consultancy offering a fully integrated multidisciplinary service. The team brings together expertise in infrastructure engineering, environmental planning, development management, commercial delivery, mechanical and electrical engineering, and structural engineering. This combined approach provides clients with a true one-stop shop for projects of every scale.
As a Master Developer, Brookbanks plays a central role in bringing forward new towns, garden villages and large consortium sites. The team helps create new communities, infrastructure and jobs while supporting national efforts to address the housing crisis.
Brookbanks works across a diverse range of sectors, supporting clients in residential, healthcare, education, and data centre sectors. Its experience includes delivering complex programmes for organisations such as NHS Trusts, leading schools and colleges and major commercial operators.
With national coverage supported by offices in Birmingham, Berkhamsted, Bishops Stortford, Warrington, Cardiff, Exeter, Leeds and Bristol, Brookbanks provides local insight backed by one integrated, multidisciplinary team.
Bidwells
Affiliate
We offer our clients unparalleled knowledge and access to the markets we serve – and these are some of the most interesting markets with the highest growth potential in the UK, including emerging opportunities within the region of the Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor.
Bidwells’ planning team is among the largest planning consultancies in the UK and has a proven track record of providing problem solving advice to a range of clients. Our highly-experienced team has worked on a broad spectrum of developments across the commercial, residential and rural sectors.
Landra Developments
Full Member
Landra Developments is a young and agile land promotion business that was established two years ago with the financial backing of Lawrence Baker Ltd, one of the UK’s largest healthcare contractors.
At Landra Developments, we work with landowners to guide land through the planning system and unlock its full potential. Our directors have over 80 years of combined experience in land promotion, planning and development. We offer a personal, hands-on service and cover all associated planning and legal costs, delivering a risk-free solution that’s focusses on securing real value for our partners.
Landra’s approach to enabling successful schemes is based on identifying local needs and working with Councils and other stakeholders to deliver benefits. We embrace engagement with local communities and seek to ensure that local views, needs and aspirations are reflected in schemes from the outset. In doing so, Landra seeks to ensure the local priorities are met so that proposals are supported by existing and future residents.
Whether your land is on the edge of a village, a strategic greenfield/Green Belt site, or currently in agricultural use, we can assess its potential and develop a clear route to securing a planning permission.
Lone Star Land
Full Member
Lone Star Land was formed in 2010 to identify, secure and promote land through the planning process whilst adding value along the way. We take pride in establishing productive, trusting working relationships with landowners and critically we place great emphasis on the identification of key stakeholders and fully embracing the consultation process. Overlaying this approach with our significant planning experience, we are able to deliver the maximum value in the shortest possible time period.
If you wish to find out more about Lone Star Land, please visit our website.
NHBC
Affiliate
Established in 1936, NHBC is the UK\'s leading provider of warranty and insurance for new homes. Our purpose is to raise standards in house building by championing high-quality homes and protecting homeowners.
NHBC Standards define the technical requirements to which homes registered with us must be built. Protection for policyholders is provided by our Buildmark and Buildmark Choice warranty and insurance products.
We inspect the quality of construction work through an on-site inspection regime and technical risk management activities. Our Land Quality Service, underpinned by a specialist team of geotechnical and geo-environmental engineers, de-risks and adds value to land for residential development.
We also provide a range of construction quality and training services to our registered customers, all designed to support our core purpose.
Turner Morum
Affiliate
Established in 1991, Turner Morum is a firm of Chartered Surveyors providing specialist advice to a variety of clients nationwide
The Development Consultancy team provide viability advice to a wide range of clients at all stages of the development process - from securing draft allocations to structuring and undertaking review mechanisms. We advise across the full spectrum of development sites - from small brownfield sites to large phased garden villages.
We also provide valuation advice to land owners and developers on land controlled via contractual agreements or where overages are due. Such advice is provided throughout the development process, from during the drafting of purchase agreements to providing Expert Witness evidence at dispute resolution.
The advice we provide is done so throughout the development process. This includes making local plan representations, undertaking land supply assessments, advising land owners throughout the planning process, bringing sites to the market, negotiating terms and identifying Registered Providers for the affordable element.
We offer a particular blend of personal service, enthusiasm and technical expertise which differentiates ?us from most other property advisors.
Sigma Strategic Land
Full Member
Sigma Strategic Land specialise in strategic development land promotion, focusing primarily upon the delivery of planning consents on both greenfield and brownfield sites. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Sigma Homes Group which is a privately owned quality housebuilder and property development company based in Horsham, West Sussex. Our geographical range for strategic land primarily stretches across the south-east region, London Boroughs and the home counties.
Fisher German
Affiliate
Fisher German are a firm of chartered surveyors, planners and specialist property consultants offering professional services in all aspects of land and property management for over 180 years. We have experts in all property sectors identifying business opportunities for our institutional, commercial and private landowning clients.
We operate nationally across 15 offices managing a wide range of client portfolios on behalf of blue-chip companies, pension funds, private landowners, utility companies, national charities, local authorities and government agencies. Our diverse experience working with landowners and developers means that we understand the unique requirements of the development sector and all relevant planning legislation.
Lichfields
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Lichfields is the pre-eminent planning and development consultancy in the UK. Employee-owned, our specialists offer insight, innovation and expert advice to create great places for future generations, operating nationwide from our network of nine offices.
We work with landowners, developers and Government bodies on projects across the residential and commercial sectors, helping make the positive case for release of land for development through Local Plans, applications, and appeals. We operate throughout the promotion life-cycle: defining the potential, evidencing the need, quantifying the benefits and impacts, and demonstrating delivery.
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.
Deanfield Homes
Full Member
We are an award winning, independent housebuilder, specialising in small to medium sized residential developments in exceptional locations across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Berkshire.
The Deanfield team takes inspiration from the architectural style and character of the locations in which we build, and we pride ourselves on delivering the highest standards of design, craftsmanship and service to our customers, establishing new communities which blend seamlessly with the local area.
At Deanfield Homes, sustainability is high on our agenda. We are a member of the Future Homes Hub, a cross-industry body focused on the delivery of a sector-wide approach to addressing climate change. The fabric of our properties are already designed to outperform current building regulations. We now include air source heat pumps and EV charging points as standard, design homes to be ‘zero carbon ready’ and partner with social enterprise RAW to recycle waste wood from our sites.