Member Directory
The complete list of all our members.
Ceres Group
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ABOUT CERES GROUP
Ceres Group is the umbrella organisation under which Ceres Rural, a leading independent farming consultancy, and Ceres Property, a diverse and independent property consultancy, operate. The group strives for excellence, offering clients expert advice via a joined-up, one team approach, which delivers meaningful and measurable results in an efficient way, with experience-led thinking and an entrepreneurial attitude at its heart.
ABOUT CERES RURAL
Ceres Rural is a market leading consultancy providing smart business solutions for progressive farmers, landowners, and the rural economy, guided by science and independent advice. Their specialisms are broad, offering a full scope of experience-led farming consultancy, technical support and business management, covering everything from regular farm management to niche biodiversity offsetting advice.
ABOUT CERES PROPERTY
Ceres Property is a professional consultancy helping a range of clients, including landowners, land promoters and developers, to make the right property decisions and maximise value. Their expertise encompasses agricultural, residential and commercial property, within which they hold a detailed and qualified understanding of the legal, political, environmental and financial implications that can influence proposed projects/schemes and their outcomes.
Chapman Lily Planning
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Chapman Lily Planning comprise a focused team of qualified planning professionals who between them have over 50 years of planning experience.
The Team have held senior roles in local government and client side, and benefit from diverse and wide ranging experience, with particular strengths in residential, employment, waste, energy and mixed use development
We provide independent advice on all aspects of the planning system and tailor our service to our clients individual needs, using our knowledge and expertise to deliver a bespoke solution.
We add value to the development process and take immense pride in helping clients take projects from inception to implementation.
We work with a wide range of clients, including developers, landowners, businesses and householders. Depending on their needs, we:
- Undertake planning appraisals
- Promote land through the local and neighbourhood planning process
- Prepare and submit planning applications
- Provide project management
- Provide urban design advice
- Undertake community engagement
- Prepare and submit appeals
- Negotiate S106 agreements
Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
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Charles Russell Speechlys LLP is an international law firm headquartered in London with offices in the south of England. We have a strong focus on real estate and act for many institutional and private landowners, land promoters and developers.
Our lawyers advise on the structuring of options, sales and collaboration arrangements, provide strategic advice on site promotion and the securing of valuable planning permissions and on appropriate delivery models.
Colecar Strategic Land
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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!
Cornerstone Barristers
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Cornerstone Barristers is a leading set of Barristers Chambers with a strong reputation for providing high quality legal expertise in Planning, Environment, Public and Property Law. Our members act across multiple business sectors, including all forms of development (e.g. residential, commercial, solar, data centres), infrastructure, energy and judicial review, and often appear at major inquiries, DCO examinations, Local Plan examinations and in the Courts on behalf of developer clients.
Cratus Group
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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.
CRIPPS
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Cripps is a top 100 UK law firm with offices in London, Kent, and Sussex, providing a full range of legal services across real estate, corporate, private client, and litigation.
Our 120-strong real estate team offers more than just real estate law – we work with clients to repurpose and regenerate buildings, deliver housing, create communities, and enhance infrastructure in a sustainable way.
We are trusted advisers to many of the UK’s largest housebuilders and have significant expertise in property development. Our highly experienced team of development lawyers provides strategic advice throughout the entire development lifecycle – from straightforward purchases to more complex arrangements, such as conditional contracts, options, promotion agreements, and other risk-sharing structures. We also assist with funding arrangements and managing the complexities of contracts involving multiple landowners, ensuring smooth progress at every stage of the process.
With over 30 years of experience advising institutional investors, London estates, and urban and rural estates, our commercial property lawyers deliver pragmatic, commercially focused solutions across all real estate sectors. Combining in-depth expertise with creativity and advanced legal technology, we help clients achieve success today, tomorrow, and in the long term.
Our commitment to quality and sustainability is reflected in key achievements:
- Certified B Corp
- Recognised in The Times Best Law Firms, commended for our work in Inheritance & Succession and Landlord & Tenant matters
Whether repurposing commercial spaces or advising on complex development projects, Cripps is your trusted legal partner for navigating the evolving real estate landscape.
- Ecovadis Bronze Certification
- ISO 9001 Certified
- Corporate Law Firm of the Year – South East Dealmakers Awards (2019, 2021, 2023)
- Finalists at the 2024 News on the Block ERMAs
Whether repurposing commercial spaces or advising on complex development projects, Cripps is your trusted legal partner for navigating the evolving real estate landscape.
Cromsdale
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Cromsdale is a strategic land promotion company with over 25 years’ experience. We work with landowners across the country to maximise their land value and minimise their financial exposure, in areas where we can demonstrate housing need. We have an enviable track record in the conversion of land from agricultural or brownfield to a residential planning consent and an onward sale. During the promotion process we work closely with Local Authorities, local residents, community groups and house builders to deliver high value sites that benefit the local community.
Croudace Homes
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Croudace Homes is a well-established regional residential developer founded in 1946, and to this day remains a family-owned business dedicated to delivering high quality homes. We have an excellent track record of successfully promoting strategic land for development, operating out of three regions South Thames, North Thames and Western. Croudace Homes will look to take on strategic sites ranging from 100 to 5,000+ units.
CSA Environmental
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CSA is an independent multi-disciplinary consultancy who specialise in urban design, landscape, ecology and heritage services. The practice employs over 50 people and has offices in Hertfordshire, Worcestershire and Brighton with a nationwide portfolio of work.
CSA is committed to providing our clients with clear, high quality advice, through our friendly and responsive professional teams.
DAC Beachcroft
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DAC Beachcroft is an international law firm serving a wide range of sectors with a strong heritage in real estate. With 170 lawyers we are one of the largest specialist real estate teams in the UK and our extensive network gives us national, regional and local knowledge and access. We advise at every point of the development cycle, and act for both private and public clients, in the UK and internationally. We have a highly experienced Residential Development team, and work for the countrys leading housebuilders, as well as many specialist developers and housing associations. We advise on garden villages and other large schemes, build to rent, student accommodation and later life living. We have specialists teams in Planning and Environment, Construction and Engineering, and Litigation.
Dandara
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Dandara was established in 1988 from the desire to provide innovative homes and commercial properties, which would offer real value for money without compromising on design, durability or quality. Today Dandara is one of the UK’s largest independent property development companies, with over 10,000 happy customers and more than 100 industry awards for design and quality.
We have been at the forefront of commercial and residential property design and development for over three decades, creating award-winning homes and working environments throughout the UK. We are passionate about quality, which is why we undertake every aspect of the development process ourselves; from land buying and planning, to design, build and sales.
We have an established and experienced land and planning team and we aim to work collaboratively with local councils, stakeholders and the local community to deliver developments that meet and exceed the aspirations.
David Jarvis Associates
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David Jarvis Associates was established in 1982 to provide a new approach to the integration of development and human activity into the urban and rural landscape.
Since then, we have grown into a medium-sized practice with a rich and varied portfolio of work throughout the UK, Ireland, Continental Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean.
Our expertise lies in planning and design. Our teams of professional chartered town planners, urban designers and landscape architects provide imaginative but commercially realistic advice to ensure that your project achieves its full potential.”
David Lock Associates
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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.
Davidsons Homes
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Based in Ibstock, Leicestershire, Davidsons Homes is a family owned and managed company which has been building quality homes for three generations. Its history is as unique and solid as its homes, with its well-established and knowledgeable background giving customers extra reassurance.
Having built over 6,000 quality homes across the East Midlands since its inception in 2007, it has steadily grown and with the expansion of a South Midlands regional office in 2019, Davidsons Homes has become a major operator across the Midlands.
Davidsons Homes’ ethos is to ‘Feel part of something better’ and its homes and award-winning developments are testament to this. They are built with traditional values, attention to detail and a strong sense of individuality, complementing and respecting their surroundings and giving those who live in them a greater sense of belonging.
Deanfield Homes
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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.
Define
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We are an ambitious team of planners, urban designers, architects and landscape architects with a dynamic and collaborative approach that unlocks the full potential of our projects.
Working with developers, land promoters, house builders, land owners and institutions we provide robust and cohesive multi-disciplinary advice on projects of all size, scale and complexity, shaping places where people can live, work, learn and play.
Our creative response to each site is inspired by its context in order to shape and realise exemplary communities and landscapes. Places with rich identities that respond to the needs of our changing society and the fight against climate change.
Denbury Homes
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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.
Dentons
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Dentons is a global law firm with a leading UK real estate practice that is highly experienced in strategic land promotion and development. The firm advises landowners, promoters and developers at every stage of the land lifecycle, from site assembly and option, JV and promotion agreements through to planning, disposal and long-term development strategies.
Dentons’ teams are well-known for advising government Ministers, developers and local authorities to guide complex, large-scale projects through the planning system, including Garden Communities, mixed-use schemes and major residential developments.
DHA
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DHA provides planning advice to landowners, businesses, local authorities and developers on developments of all types and scales. We offer guidance and advice on all aspects of the planning system to maximise the value and potential of property.
We have six specialist technical consulting teams providing planning & development, transport, design, environmental impact, infrastructure and land advice, from our offices in Maidstone and Crawley.
Eddisons
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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.
edge Urban Design
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edge is the spark of moxie that’s shaking up the world of Urban Design in Oxfordshire and beyond. We are a fresh, innovative and exciting Urban Design and Masterplanning practice, delivering great ideas and creating special places through imaginative placemaking.
Our team of Urban Designers are passionate about inspiring design and highly skilled in the master planning profession, having delivered between them planning permissions for more than 30,000 new homes across the UK. With a strong grounding in Architecture and Landscape Architecture, we have the experience to deliver successful placemaking projects of all scales – from cities and towns to neighbourhoods, streets, and spaces. Our core focus is on delivering high-quality development and regeneration throughout the UK, working closely with our clients to ensure robust results.
EDIT Land
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EDIT Land, we are a Land Promoter who specialise in identifying, securing, and enhancing land value through strategic planning and development. Our mission is to transform underutilised land into high-quality, well-designed spaces where families can thrive—feeling secure, connected, and inspired by their surroundings.
Elivia Homes
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Elivia Homes is a UK housebuilder and developer delivering thoughtfully designed, high?quality homes across the South-East and beyond. The business focuses on strong architectural quality, sustainable development and creating places that enhance their surroundings while delivering long?term value. Elivia Homes operates from two regional offices, located in West Malling, Kent and Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, alongside a Strategic Land Division based at the Kent office.
Enzygo
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Enzygo are an Environmental Consultancy with the experience and capability to help meet the challenges required in delivering new infrastructure and development. We provide our clients with director led support and advice to ensure that their strategic and commercial goals are achieved.
We are an independent, multi-disciplinary environmental consultancy with a proven track record of delivering creative, integrated and cost-effective solutions that maximise the potential of development sites.
Our growing team of professionals, including a number with a background in business, local authority and regulatory organisations, use a collaborative approach to devise solutions that are respectful of technical and budgetary constraints, comply with industry guidance, whilst also fulfilling planning and commercial aspirations.
We have substantial experience in the delivery of all types of developments, including:-
- major infrastructure projects
- residential housing schemes
- renewable energy programs
We offer a broad range of environmental disciplines, including:-
- Planning
- Hydrology and Drainage
- Permitting and Regulation
- Landscape
- Ecology
- Transport
- Geo-Environmental and Hydrogeology
- Noise and Vibration
- Air Quality
- Arboriculture
Such is our reputation and knowledge base, we are now often called to give expert witness testimonies in more complex planning cases, including many sanctioned by the Secretary of State.
We have offices in Sheffield, Manchester, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff and Belfast.
ESP Utilities Group
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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.
fabrik
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fabrik is an award-winning multi-disciplinary masterplanning and landscape practice based in London and Hampshire.
We are a creative, independent, 100% employee-owned team of urban designers, landscape architects and arboriculturists. Our mission is to design and build better places, and to improve the physical and mental health of communities, through engagement with sustainably designed and natural landscapes.
We are makers of climate-resilient, sociable places
We are here for people, nature and the planet. Our priority is to serve the communities who use our schemes by improving their quality of life, mental health and well-being, and aid nature and our planet by restoring biodiversity, reducing pollution and drawing down carbon. We care deeply about people’s lives and memories - fabrik exists to create a more equitable and greener future.
Multidisciplinary mediators - making connections and balance
We connect, listen to and understand all parties within a project - this makes us effective mediators. We believe that balance and harmony across disciplines and interests are critical in getting the best results. We balance the interests of developers and local communities - we find common ground between social responsibility and commerciality. It is our multidisciplinary expertise and cognitive diversity that enables us to do this.
We are an energetic and innovative collective
Our team is some 50-strong and includes energetic, committed and highly talented people with a diverse set of skills. We nurture the strengths of the individuals that make up our team, and encourage creativity and a vigorous interchange of ideas.
Our core skills are masterplanning, urban design, landscape planning, landscape design and arboriculture. We deploy these skills in the residential, leisure, healthcare, education and commercial sectors for a wide range of private and public sector clients on a diverse portfolio of both regeneration and greenfield sites.
We work on projects across the UK, from as far north as Inverness all the way south to the Isle of Wight, and from Great Yarmouth in the east to Newquay in the west.
Website: https://fabrikuk.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fabrik_uk/
Fisher German
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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.
Framptons
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Framptons is a specialist planning consultancy offering expertise across a wide range of services, guiding our clients through the planning process and providing them with expert planning advice.
Francis Taylor Building
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Francis Taylor Building (FTB) has a reputation for excellence in planning and related areas of law and is consistently featured in both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 for our expertise and leading role in the field.
Chambers and Partners 2026 notes that ““Francis Taylor Building is an exceptional planning set with excellent strength in depth." The Legal 500 2026 comments that "Francis Taylor Building is impressive across the board with real strength in depth." "Excellent quality at all levels."
Members are instructed by both the private and the public sectors. Private clients include many of the country's largest commercial operators including housebuilders.
Chambers was named as Environment / Planning Set of the Year by Chambers and Partners Bar Awards 2025.