Nine people who all read the same policy documents you can
There is no secret. The policy is public, the evidence is public, and the skill is in assembling it.
Urban has been a nine-person practice since 2018, working across planning, transport and public realm. We have run ninety-one applications since 2012 and seventy-three were approved; all ninety-one are listed on this site with the decision and the reason.
Publishing the refusals costs us work and is the single thing clients mention most often when they explain why they rang us. A practice that only shows you its wins is telling you something about its record, just not the thing it intends.
About one engagement in six is for a residents’ association or community group at roughly a fifth of our commercial rate. We will not act against a group we have previously advised, which has cost us two large instructions and was worth it both times.
- 2012
- 91
- 80%
- 1 in 6
The practice
Dionne Baugh
Founded the practice in 2012. Presents at committee and takes most of the first conversations.
Peter Nunes
Counts, modelling and access design. Has written the transport statement on sixty of the ninety-one.
Shanice Fuller
Streets and the space between buildings. Runs the consultation sessions that people actually attend.
Wayne Chin
Assembles the evidence base. The reason our applications validate first time.
What clients say
Read all the reviewsThey told us two floors would have to go. We argued, they were right.
A fifth of the rate for our residents group and the same people did the work.
The consultation reached people who never come to meetings.
A major application is nine to eighteen months. They are honest about that.
Tell us the site and we will tell you the four things that will decide it