ProjectsPlanning intelligence
Planning-led strategy. Coordinated architecture and specialist expertise. A clear route for complex land and major projects.
The planning perspective
Valuable land and assets can be held back by planning uncertainty, fragmented advice and an unclear route forward. The planning position, design strategy and technical evidence need to develop together.
STAGE is the masterplanner and project lead, running the project and coordinating the full professional team. One strategy. One team. One point of contact. Explore real client case studies alongside illustrative studies showing how the client decision shapes the evidence, team and route forward.
Explore our capabilityRead the potential within the land, the asset and its wider context.
Identify constraints and evidence gaps before they create avoidable delay.
Coordinate design, evidence and the route through consent and implementation.
Selected studies
Roseworthy, Higher Brynn and Challonsleigh are real client project records, with the planning work and evidence set out in each case study. Other entries are illustrative planning studies.
Illustrative planning study
UK coastal context
The planning question
Expand the marina, reposition the waterfront or test an investment. Which planning questions shape the next commitment?
Marina expansion, complementary leisure uses and waterfront development potential.
Illustrative planning study
Operational land / future use
The planning question
Operate, restore or reposition. How should the planning strategy connect today’s operation with the land’s future?
A coherent long-term strategy for operational requirements, restoration and future land use.
Illustrative planning study
Settlement edge / residential opportunity
The planning question
Acquire, promote or progress. Does the planning evidence support the next land decision?
A long-term residential and mixed-use opportunity shaped by the site and its wider context.
STAGE / Selected work
The Green Waste Company / Cornwall
The planning question
How can an operationally effective recycling facility fit a sloping rural site and address the environmental evidence needed for a credible planning case?
A new facility for open-windrow green-waste composting, separate wood recycling and agricultural-plastics reception and baling.
Planning permission granted on 19 December 2025. STAGE led the application and managed the whole project.
STAGE / Selected work
The Green Waste Company / Cornwall
The planning question
How can a working recycling site introduce covered wood processing without losing the yard space, circulation and environmental controls its operation depends on?
A proposed wood processing and storage building, supported by a reconfigured yard within an established recycling operation.
Planning permission granted on 12 January 2024. STAGE led the application and managed the whole project.
STAGE / Selected work
DDE (SW) Ltd / Dorton Group / Dorton Demolition & Excavation Ltd / Devon
The planning question
How can a permanent recycling facility and temporary inert landfill work together while protecting the river corridor and planning for the land’s restoration?
Expand an established waste operation, recover more construction and demolition material, and plan a phased route for residual inert material and agricultural restoration.
Planning permission granted on 1 April 2020 under DCC/4038/2018, with STAGE leading the project.
Institutional planning
Planning can materially change the risk, value and future of an asset.
Explore planning & asset intelligenceComplex land. Difficult consent. Major opportunity.
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