this is active planning
With our collaborating SME consultants we are teams of town planners, transport planners, landscape architects, urban designers, active travel infrastructure designers, design reviewers, master planners and stakeholder engagers.
The small size of our businesses allows us to be positively different and distinctively non-corporate: we are dynamic, highly creative and passionate about the ethos upon which we have founded our various practices. We bring a wealth of diverse experience from our previous careers and, dare we say it, we have demonstrated the courage and determination to become established in a crowded market and offer something better.
With interdisciplinary support from our partners we offer a complete kit of services to meet your needs, whether you are public, private or community clients.
ActivePlanning on its own specialises in policy, strategy and design relating to active travel modes, which are relevant to all the services listed on the left. Our work is increasingly essential as our planet heats and people are becoming ever more sedentary and unhealthy, imposing very considerable human and financial costs on themselves and wider society.
As our population grows we need new transport infrastructure. But funding is limited, and so local authorities and others need to think about low cost schemes that can be rolled out quickly over large areas to deliver good financial returns.
Active travel infrastructure including liveable neighbourhoods, crossings and full scale cycleways are quick to build and highly effective at providing mass transport on foot and wheel. Our work to build policy support, to design and review active travel schemes and coach clients and their suppliers is intended to create momentum for this sustainable investment.
Within this, ActivePlanning’s core strengths are on the creative and semi-technical design side:
Literature review.
Policy writing.
Funding bid narratives.
Strategy preparation.
Presentation maps, sketches, consultation materials.
Brainstorming, visioning.
Design Review including DRPs.
Scheme concept designs.
Scheme design and design review.
Coaching local authorities and their consultants to push stubborn perceptual boundaries and produce excellence.
collaborations
ActivePlanning is proud to work with a wide range of partners who provide technical support, feeding into our policy, strategy, funding bids and design narratives:
A multi-award winning consultancy which offers public and stakeholder engagement, behaviour change, and school and business travel plans in collaboration with Modeshift. This social enterprise is based in Kettering, Northamptonshire and works within the North Northamptonshire Council area.
Masterplanning, landscape architecture, biodiversity, ecology. This highly respected consultancy is based in Devon and works across the UK.
A sole trading consultancy providing engineering advice, used by ActivePlanning to check scheme concept sketches and ensure they are potentially viable.
A multiple-award winning practice specialising in creating places that are responsive to the sustainable development agenda at all levels of design from streets to landscapes to circular systems, energy efficiency, adaptable buildings, local food production and low impact building materials. Services include design coding.
Hegsons Design Consultancy Limited
Based in the Republic of Ireland, England and France this practice provides development transport assessment, engineering and traffic infrastructure design across Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and France.
Open Accessame
A sole trading consultancy providing NRAC accredited accessibility assessments for public realm schemes, contributing to equalities impact assessments. We recommend their appointment alongside staged road safety audits to ensure fuller compliance with the 2010 Equality Act (Public Sector Equality Duty).
A GIS based commenting map platform which enables stakeholders and the public to interact with specific proposals put forward by local authorities. The company provides full statistical analysis of the results. It also provides a range of GIS based baseline data collection and analysis and demand modelling for LCWIPs.
PlaceChangers now offers a GIS based site data recording app which enables users to instantly file site photos, giving exact locations, orientation and space for making notes. This enables photographs to mean something more to people other than just the surveyor, thereby adding value to site visits.
A larger consultancy that provides development transport assessments, engineering design and transport strategy consultancy.
The national active travel charity. Services provided include GIS, concept design CAD, public and stakeholder engagement and surveys with associated analysis.
A consultancy which provides network appraisal, planning and route prioritisation based on a detailed analysis of streets using the National Bikeability curriculum to test their suitability for cycling at all skill and confidence levels. The company provides in depth baseline statistical analysis using Census data and GIS, and constructs weighted prioritisation methods to direct investment in cycleways and cycle parking.