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.
David Lock Associates
Affiliate
We are an independent town planning and urban design consultancy with a reputation for delivering successful, commercially aware projects at all scales.
Our projects represent bespoke strategies born out of our extensive industry expertise, our flair for innovation and our focus on excellent design. They influence decision making and investment choices by the public and private sectors. At the strategic scale they help to deliver infrastructure, transform economies and evolve the geography of towns, cities and sub-regions.
Our motivation is our desire to use our combined skills and experience in spatially-led planning, working collaboratively with trusted partners, to help deliver great and sustainable places where communities can grow and prosper.
We have been based in Milton Keynes since our inception in 1988.
We work with public and private sector clients of all sizes to create deliverable planning strategies and successful master plans which in turn secure robust permissions and guide high quality development on the ground. The breadth of our services includes all core planning and masterplanning activities, and is enhanced by a wide range of associated skills which enable us to produce project specific outputs.
Meeting Place
Affiliate
Meeting Place is an integrated communications agency that specialises in the built environment. They deliver planning communications and public relations campaigns to create positive change from new developments.
SLR
Affiliate
The environment in which we live faces increasingly complex global challenges, with climate change, economic constraints and a biodiversity crisis shaping the context of natural and built environment projects. At SLR, we respond to these environmental challenges with enthusiasm and innovation, to help our clients meet these challenges head on.
Our experience tells us that the smallest of projects can have a big impact, while even the largest strategies require a detailed understanding of delivery. Our team is shaped to provide outstanding advice from assessment and evaluation of sites, through to delivering transformational physical change; applying our deep understanding of the planning, design and development process to achieve successful outcomes.
Our collaboration across disciplines leaves us in the ideal situation to unlock development, create value and bring forward truly sustainable places that benefit wider society and ensure we're Making Sustainability Happen.
HLM Architects
Affiliate
For more than half a century HLM Architects has delivered socially responsible, thoughtfully designed, transformative places. Ambitious to our core, we’re always driven to do more. More for our communities, our planet, and each other.
With studios embedded in communities across the UK and Ireland, we work with outstanding clients to create education environments that inspire, healthcare settings that nurture, homes in thriving neighbourhoods, and public infrastructure that’s sustainable in every sense.
Lanpro
Affiliate
We are a leading independent consultancy of planners, designers and environmental specialists, creating and delivery commercial and social value for our clients and the communities in which we work.
Manor Oak Homes
Full Member
Manor Oak Homes was founded in 2010 and has rapidly grown through our hands on approach, attention to detail and 100% success rate, that has developed the business into one of the most successful strategic land promoters. Working with landowners and their agents, we are currently promoting over 9,000 houses on 30 sites. Our well designed landscape led schemes are sold on the open market to ensure maximum land value for landowners.
WSP
Affiliate
We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 73,300 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.
Bruton Knowles
Affiliate
Bruton Knowles are Chartered Surveyors helping property owners, occupiers, developers and investors to achieve more from their land and property. We are very much a people business striving for excellent through detail in everything we do. Bruton Knowles has created an environment where people have the confidence and freedom to operate to the best of their ability. To meet your precise requirements our people join together across teams sharing knowledge and experiences that enable us to deliver in-depth knowledge of market trends and values together with expert assessments and the very best customer care. We like to think that our approach to business makes us different in terms of our work, our people and for being a partnership built on a reputation of integrity, impartiality and independence.
From our rural origins, having been established in 1862, we have developed into a diverse commercial chartered surveying practice built on the values of integrity and professionalism, operating nationally across 14 offices.
Colecar Strategic Land
Full Member
We’re land promoters based in the northern Home Counties, working in close collaborative partnership with landowners to achieve a mutual goal. We deliver sustainable, technically sound planning consents on all types of land. We purchase and invest in strategic land, taking greenfield and brownfield sites through the local planning system, doing all we can to add value to the asset and a complete a sale to realise land’s true value.
We pride ourselves on having the ability to purchase freehold land across the UK, we are self-funded and operate fully from our own cash reserves.
When you’re ready to talk turf, talk to us!
Town Legal LLP
Affiliate
We are a specialist planning law firm, set up at the end of 2016 by some of the leading figures in the planning law sector. We advise on all aspects of planning law across England and Wales. We act for a range of clients including various land promotion companies, developers and land owners.
Lodders
Affiliate
Lodders’ award-winning residential land development team provides expert legal advice, underpinned by sound commercial knowledge of every stage of the development process. Our team acts for landowners, land promoters, and independent housebuilders and developers on all aspects of the land development process, from acquisition through to site set-up and plot sales.
The seniority and strength in depth of our team, along with our proactive and tailored approach, means that we can deal effectively with the tightest of deadlines and all sizes of developments, from single residential units to large-scale residential and mixed-use schemes.
Denbury Homes
Full Member
Part of the East Anglian landscape for almost 40 years, Denbury Homes was founded by James Hopkins, and was previously known as Hopkins & Moore.
Born and brought up in Suffolk, James’ vision for sympathetically designed new homes was shaped by his love of the region’s towns, villages, countryside, and coastline.
Passion for design still lies at the heart of Denbury Homes. We pride ourselves on building homes that blend with and complement the existing landscape. This commitment has led to a reputation for high quality homes that reflect the vernacular and enhance the communities they are a part of.
It’s not all about what’s visible though, our homes are constructed using methods and materials that deliver a finished product which marks itself out through what we call the Denbury Difference. This combined with our customer service earned us a five-star rating from the House Builders Federation in our first year of operating.
Joined in the business by his son Joshua, who is Land Director, James remains at the helm and is more determined than ever to create beautiful homes that owners can be proud of for years to come and that are part of the community for generations.