WHAT WE DO:

PLANNING CONSULTANCY | VIABILITY & DESIGN ADVICE | PROJECT MANAGEMENT | PRE-ACQUISITION ASSET MANAGEMENT PLANNING | COST PLANNING

Specialist Consultancy Services 

biT have it all covered with our full range of specialist consultants.

Our holistic approach to offering Development Consultancy Services ensures our clients have access to high quality, professional support throughout the life cycle of their project. With both regulatory and commercial experience our specialists will confidently lead your project to completion.

Built Heritage Conservation

The conservation of Built Heritage is the management of change of the historic environment and heritage assets and their setting. We provide qualified advice on the design of works affecting Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas, Scheduled Ancient Monuments and Registered Historic Parks & Gardens and have significant experience with World Heritage Sites.

We are sensitive to the economic and social pressures and aim to develop a sustainable project, whilst always working to preserve and enhance their uniqueness.

Working with all stakeholders, we can provide:

  • Conservation Area Appraisals
  • Conservation Area Management Plans
  • Conservation Area Boundary Review and Designation
  • Article 4 Directions
  • Supplementary Planning Documents and Design Guidance
  • Policy Development for Local Plans and Neighbourhood Plans
  • Conservation Management Plans to support HLF bids
  • Assessment of Heritage Planning Applications
  • Heritage Statements and Statements of Significance
  • Expert Witness and Appeals
  • Development Options Appraisal
  • Development of Local Lists
  • Designation Advice for Listing
  • World Heritage Site Nomination
  • Heritage at Risk Surveys

 

Built Heritage Conservation

Healthy Spaces

biT has highly experienced specialists who provide a host of advice, design and implementation to inspire, design and develop your parks and open spaces, play areas, Skate Parks, Multi Use Games Areas, BMX tracks, outdoor gyms, outdoor sports facilities (pitches, greens, courts and pavilions) and schools grounds to provide healthy active spaces.

Whether a developer, Borough / Town or Parish council, business or school, our impartial, highly-experienced level of advice will help you to develop a safe play or recreational area/playground with high-quality equipment designed to increase its usage with your proposed user group.

We also have the ability to design and build, and contract supervise the installation of these facilities.

biT can also provide advice and support on:

  • Provide a long-term landscape management plan for the open spaces/facilities you are providing
  • Support on how to adopt/transfer land or facilities through negotiation
  • Play area and playing pitch strategies, actually producing it if required
  • Obtaining potential funding available for your projects
Healthy Spaces

Commercial Viability

biT has development experts to assist clients in adding real value to sites by ensuring that developments are both commercially viable and deliverable, and specialise in unblocking sites.

We can provide viability assessments and reviews, development appraisals, planning viability testing, undertake planning negotiations and assist with any grant applications.

 

Commercial Viability

Feasibility & Site Appraisal

The biT Team can assist with developing options that best deliver our client’s requirements. We can prepare project briefs, spatial requirements and undertake full feasibility of your fledgling projects, including agreeing a project budget and sourcing all site information including site surveys.

We can prepare project programmes, source planning advice and prepare pre-construction information so that your project is ready to hit the ground running.

Feasibility & Site Appraisal

Post Occupancy Evaluation

We can assist clients with their monitoring of environmental conditions and the impact of their new building on productivity and performance. This may include temperature, noise, light, air quality and ventilation. A proper analysis of performance can help inform ongoing property management and energy efficiency strategies.

Post Occupancy Evaluation

Statutory Compliance

We can offer assistance to our clients with their legal obligations for ensuring that properties are safe for use, and compliant with all relevant legislation. This enables Duty Holders to focus on their own business, whilst knowing that compliance activities are being carried out and records kept on their behalf. This also includes access to a range of contractors that offer 24 hour, 7 days a week emergency call out services.

Access to our property management database is also available as a one-stop shop for all documentation and reporting relating to compliance.

 

Statutory Compliance