Site Appraisals
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Site Appraisal Services
Our approach to site assessment combines technical firmness with creativity and extensive planning and design experience. We believe that through undertaking comprehensive appraisals at an early stage of the project we can critically assess opportunities and isolate potential risk to establish a clear project path that minimises risk (in terms of delays or refusals at planning stage) and maximises development returns, no matter the size of the project.
Arch Planning adopt a variety of approaches to site appraisals including:
- Desktop study of site history
- Photographic studies
- Development opportunity and constraints appraisals
- Assessment of the local planning authority’s local development plan
- Access and infrastructure analysis
- Land use opportunities, layout and scale
- Townscape assessment and street scene appraisal
- Urban Regeneration and Town Centre Improvement
- Retail Impact Assessments
- Flood Risk Sequential Tests
- Out of Town Retail and Employment Sequential Tests
- Landscape Character Assessment
- Site base verification of visual impact and effect
- Open space analysis and audit
- Ecology and Biodiversity Appraisals
- Preliminary Ecological Appraisals (PEAs)
- Heritage Impact Assessments
- Heritage Statements
- Planning Statements
- Design and Access Statements
- Historic Landscape Appraisal
- Climatic Conditions
- Daylight / Sunlight studies