R4C provides resources for improving the environmental sustainability of housing developments, and is able to advise on developments such as the Building Research Establishments Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), which provides an objective measure of performance.

In addition, if you need to show how you will engage with stakeholders, if you need to plan the process of consultation, or actually deliver on the plans, you should talk to us.

We have provided these services to developers and local authorities in relation to housing and planning:

• Forward Planning
• Community Planning
• Natural Resource Planning
• Pre-development consultation e.g. Section 106
• Managing the dialogue between developers and stakeholders
• Consultation for local authorities around development e.g. Local Development Framework
• Consultation on Spatial Plans
• Support to agencies on community engagement
• Statements of Community Involvement
• Evaluation of development impacts
• Development of community and social networks

Projects include work in the Medway, and also with English Partnerships and NIF (Planning for Real) in the Telford Millennium Community. Work has included managing dialogue between different stakeholders in large building projects and helping to build social / community networks.

We have strong management experience and can help ensure grassroots consultation is properly synchronised within management and project planning processes. We have been involved in working with social businesses to develop new ways of delivering services and products in communities and this has real application in new developments

We have a lot of experience of facilities needs assessments and community economic profiling which are important to new development. We have architectural and design associates with whom we can work to produce designs based on the consultations for both buildings and landscapes.

To find out more about this area of our work and we we could help you contact Steve Evison.