Land consultancy
Clients embarking on ambitious development, infrastructure, and urban regeneration projects must navigate complex legislative processes to acquire the land they need.
Access often needs to be negotiated on both privately or publicly owned land so that surveys and impact assessments can be carried out and construction can take place.
Consultations with stakeholders, which can include many thousands of people on the largest infrastructure projects, need to be managed, made sense of, and responded to.
Our land referencing team understand the challenges involved in land consultancy, from smaller works to nationally significant infrastructure projects, establishing a consistent point of contact throughout the whole lifecycle of a project.
What can we do for you?
We have one of the largest and most experienced land consultancy teams in the industry, providing services that combine the knowledge and insight of land advisory and technical experts, working with proven systems and innovative digital solutions.
Identify landowners and initiate communication
Whether negotiating the purchase of land to assemble sites or gaining temporary access for project preparation and delivery, it is critical to have a detailed understanding of rights holders and users.
We can prepare the way for negotiating mutually acceptable terms of sale on the land you need. Working with in-house or third-party planners and designers, we identify opportunities to mitigate impacts or add value for owners and communities. We’ll also help you optimize your project to minimize the number of stakeholders impacted.
Manage information for success
Our land consultancy team are supported by our powerful proprietary digital solution, Moata Land Management. This provides a unified way of securely storing and accessing land-based data, storing all land ownership, access, survey management, communications, and stakeholder management information.
Build and maintain positive stakeholder relationships
We help you coordinate the thousands of communications or contact events between project stakeholders and the many contributing disciplines and supply chain organizations responsible for project development.
Our proprietary digital solution Moata Stakeholder Relationship Management provides a unified single source of truth for all stakeholder-related record keeping. Its common data environment gives the whole project team access to documentation, enabling easy sharing.
We advised the Department for Transport on governance, policy and compliance in relation to the acquisition and disposal of land for the transformative cross-London rail route, the Elizabeth Line.
Expert land consultancy for complex infrastructure projects
We act to bridge the gap of communication between those affected by a project and the broader project delivery disciplines.
Our experience
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Elizabeth Line, London, UKWe advised the Department for Transport on governance, policy, and compliance in relation to the acquisition and disposal of land for this transformative cross-London rail route. We demonstrated that proper processes had been adhered to, safeguarding the secretary of state for transport from legal challenge.
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Newark Riverfront Park, NJ, USAWe were retained by the Trust for Public Land and the City of Newark to provide a variety of environmental and engineering services for the development of the proposed Riverfront Park. The park project has transformed abandoned land, consisting of expanses of pavement and compacted soil, into an oasis of parkland including more than 250 trees and two additional hectares (five acres) of pervious surface.
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Tideway, London, UKWe advised water regulator Ofwat on the strategy and governance for acquiring, managin,g and disposing of land for London’s Tideway super-sewer.
Land Management
Land Management captures and makes available information about land ownership and access that is essential for smooth project development. The solution records and provides instant access to these details, plus information on surveys and stakeholder communications.
