Hive Land & Planning is a surveying and planning consultancy that has a strong track record across all sectors, including housing, town centre regeneration, mixed-use development, employment uses, logistics, retail and leisure. It is our combined public-private experience and surveying and planning expertise that helps us to stand out from the crowd.

Hive’s range of public sector services include:

Preparing and submitting planning applications on local authority owned land
Advising on land portfolio strategies
Project management of initiatives such as Garden Villages and Housing Zones, or individual sites
Expertise in respect of large, complex, multi-ownership sites with significant infrastructure requirements
Strategy, design and implementation of regeneration projects
Bidding submissions or advice on devolution deals; in our first 12 months we secured £123.7m of HIF funding for our clients
Agency and soft-market testing
Incorporation of a place-making, design-led approach to projects
Research and advice on housing delivery targets
Whilst many public sector partners have the expertise in-house to undertake some of the services offered, Hive will provide a flexible resource which can be deployed quickly in response to demand.

Hive’s range of private sector services include:

Co-ordination and management of complex planning applications, including Section 106 negotiations, public/stakeholder engagement and Expert Witness at Public Inquiry
Strategic and immediate land identification and evaluation
Promotion of sites through the Local Plan process, including participation at Examination in Public
Land/Site negotiations (pre and mid-contractual)
Collaboration agreements (including promotion, option and equalisation) and land assembly
Brokering in respect of multi-developer sites, including Registered Providers
Managing the technical de-risking process
Market engagement (including soft market testing)
Multi-disciplinary team management
Ransom mitigation strategies

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