Planning and Urban Design Profile

Vincent and Gorbing Planning Associates is one of the country’s leading planning consultancies. Our clients include developers, volume housebuilders, public sector and corporate landowners, and institutional investors. We are able to provide clear advice on the development potential of land and guide clients on their planning or land disposal strategies.

The services we offer can be tailored to specific needs. We are delighted to accept individual commissions on all aspects of planning including feasibility studies, masterplanning, appeals and local plan inquiries, and research projects such as open space audits and urban capacity studies. In collaboration with our architects and urban designers we have the in-house expertise to take a development project from initial planning appraisal, through outline and detailed design, to construction and completion.


We have a continuing programme of planning projects throughout the United Kingdom. These include on-going advice to Hertfordshire and Nottinghamshire County Councils on their land portfolios, advice to the NHS executive on several redundant hospitals, and master planning and environmental assessment work on residential developments ranging from 100 to 3000 units. We have also recently prepared master plans for several of the country’s leading public schools.

Working alongside Vincent and Gorbing Associates, with its teams of specialist architects, we have the ability to offer our clients expert planning and design advice based upon the latest national, regional and local planning policy guidelines. With far-reaching changes in planning policy emerging from central government on a regular basis, expert guidance is essential to maximise any office development opportunity.

For more information on the ways we could help you with your planning projects, please contact :

Planning Director, Martin Friend on 01438 316331.
email:  martin.friend@vincent-gorbing.co.uk