Community Needs Report

Boost your planning success —

Understand community needs first.

Book a free 15-minute consultation and see how our Community Needs Report can smooth public consultations, ease committee approvals, and fast-track planning decisions.

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Our reports help you:

Identify local strengths

Pinpoint community challenges

See all the stakeholders

Fill local asset and service gaps

Compare demographic trends

Build a positive impact

Local authorities & government bodies.

Gain consistent, objected and evidenced understanding of the local community needs to improve decision making.

Strategic urban planning

Helps councils better identify and measure community strengths and weaknesses so new developments can continually uplift places.

Evidence-based policy making

Supports compliance with the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and local policies with consistent data and benchmarking.

Identifies neighbourhood needs

Leads to improved evidence-based prioritisation and action planning to channel resources and interventions appropriately.

Enhances community wellbeing

Enables a deeper and more accurate understanding of the social factors related to health and wellbeing

Developers & investors.

Gain enhanced understanding of community-related project feasibility to reduce risk and improve long term performance.

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Improves planning processes & outcomes

Improves project justifications with robust community-needs evidence.

Heightened site assessments

Improved early-stage design feasibility planning to assess potential demand and competition with the community

Improves community perception & support

Enables project design to better respond to local community need, reducing resistance and enhancing reputational value.

Supports mixed-use & regeneration efforts

Helps designers to propose appropriate community and commercial uses based on evidenced need.

Planning professionals & architects.

Designing development schemes that directly respond to identified local needs using an asset-based approach leads to better community engagement, stronger support at public consultations and planning committees and most importantly, a more positive and lasting impact on the local community