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ABOUT US
Highbury Planning Consultants (HPC) is a progressive consultancy offering a range of both technical and management professional planning and development services to public and private sector clients, providing a very competitive, flexible and responsive service. We can provide multi-disciplinary solutions through a network of planning professionals and urban design, environmental, sustainability, energy, transport, economic and delivery specialists. With 35 years experience in both the UK and internationally, HPC’s principal and founder, Chris Stratford FRTPI, is a trusted advisor to a breadth of clients offering both technical and management advice.

Why us?
Extraordinary planning and project coordination at competitive rates
– HPC provides extensive experience and is committed to high quality, client focus, pragmatic and strategic coordination and providing advice that is highly competitive, value added and delivers solutions that suit our clients and benefit society and the environment. Also, it offers access to a range of specialists and expertise and the coordination of such advice.

What we do?
HPC primarily provides professional services in four principal areas of work and our full range of services can be found here.

Who we work for?
HPC delivers thorough and innovative planning work, where the client and effective delivery are always the focus. We work for local planning authorities, development agencies, public sector bodies and private sector companies, who are looking for exemplar planning and development solutions. An extensive range of our clients can be found here.

How we work?
HPC’s ethos is wholly client focussed, whilst remaining delivery orientated, high quality, innovative, sound and robust. We build on existing best practice to formulate innovative solutions that deliver real outcomes for our clients. HPC prides itself on effective communication with clients at the highest level and stakeholders including, where relevant, the general public and local councillors. Clients can rely on the fact that projects will be managed effectively, efficiently and delivered on time – a range of key projects undertaken by Chris Stratford as Project Director can be found here. HPC always seeks to satisfy client outcome expectations and provide high quality technical work with sound results that are ‘fit for purpose’ and that add value.
Highbury Planning Consultants offer clients:

  • Robust planning and development advice to public and private sectors in the UK and overseas
  • Progressive planning advice regarding from strategy development to implementation
  • Effective and efficient delivery of planning consents and related planning advice
  • Access to a network of planners, urban designers and environmental, sustainability, energy, transport, economic, and delivery specialists and wider professional resources
  • Access to current best practice in the planning and development sector
  • Taking pride in creating innovative solutions to complex problems


Services that you might contact Highbury Planning Consultants for:

  • Preparing a sustainable planning framework, masterplan or plan for any area
  • Undertaking a major or complex consents project, especially for infrastructure
  • If you are a public sector body and looking to undertake a planning or development study
  • If you are looking for ‘interim management’ for a senior position in your organisation
  • Formulation of teams or require leadership/management of existing teams in the planning and development field, especially multi-disciplinary teams
Director - Chris Stratford FRTPI
T +44 (0) 207 226 1676 M +44 (0) 7747 474 337