Aerial illustrated masterplan of a mixed-use residential development surrounded by green trees, showing homes, streets, and open spaces.

Aerial site plan showing a residential development with green spaces, pathways, a pond, and housing plots outlined in red.

Aerial illustrated master plan of a mixed-use development with homes, green spaces, ponds, roads, and commercial buildings.

Aerial view of a green park with play areas, winding paths, trees, and a residential neighborhood with red-brick houses in the background.

Aerial sketch illustration of a residential neighborhood with orange-roofed homes, green spaces, trees, and surrounding countryside.

Aerial architectural sketch of a mixed-use urban development with buildings, green spaces, and roads surrounded by trees.

Architectural sketch of modern residential homes with wood cladding, surrounded by trees and greenery along a quiet road.

Aerial view of a residential housing development with red-roofed homes, tree-lined streets, green parkland, and surrounding farmland.

A family with bicycles walks along a path beside a green park with a pond, near a residential neighborhood.

Aerial view of a English village with red-brick homes, green parks, tennis courts, and surrounding farmland fields.

Masterplanning & Urban Design

Our high-quality design capability is uniquely informed by the full range of property and planning expertise available across the Carter Jonas network.

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Overview

Embedded within the planning & development team, our masterplanners accelerate the design process by drawing on planning insight, market intelligence, architectural expertise and delivery specialisms across the firm at every stage.

This enables us to work efficiently and effectively, avoiding redundant design work, and ensures the outputs are commercially sound, deliverable and fit-for-purpose. Our work for public, private and third sector clients across the UK ranges in scale from 0.5 to 500 hectares, and in different contexts from village greenfield settings to urban brownfield sites, and everything in between. To all of this work we bring a design intelligence that is tuned to the English landscape and townscape in all their regional variations.

Masterplanning & Urban Design

Our Expertise, Services and Experience

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Core Sectors

Urban Regeneration
Our masterplanning team creates community-led visions and development frameworks for towns and urban areas. Delivering great places from scratch is challenging, as many uninspiring new developments show.
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Mixed Use / New Settlements
We take a proactive approach to strategic land, maximising value for residential, employment and mixed-use sites, from greenfield extensions and new settlements to brownfield regeneration.
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Rural Diversification
Rural areas can support diverse local needs, from farm shops and workspaces to holiday stays and business hubs. We deliver residential and mixed-use projects across rural settings.
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Employment and Education Campuses
We work with Carter Jonas Commercial teams nationwide to deliver viable education, office, industrial and distribution developments, creating masterplans aligned to client needs.
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Residential Developments
We create residential masterplans that deliver functional, attractive places for people of all ages and needs. Our experience spans strategic land projects of all types and scales.
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Feasibility / Capacity Studies
We prepare feasibility studies that help clients understand a site's development potential, while identifying key constraints and opportunities to support successful planning outcomes.
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Specialisms

Expert Witness Services
Acting as an Expert Witness for a client requires experience and a good grasp of planning, urban design and relevant statutes and frameworks such as the National Planning Policy Framework.
In the past few years in particular, we have experience of representing a range of clients and winning appeals based on our efforts.
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Building for a Healthy Life & National Design Guide Assessments
Building for a Healthy Life and the National Design Guide form guidance that are used widely across the country, especially by local authorities assessing a development proposal in their area.
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Design Codes and Plot Passports
The team specialises in the production of design codes as part of outline planning applications, development briefs and plot passports for smaller schemes.
We regularly produce design codes for a range of residentialled sites across the country, working closely with our clients and local authorities to produce high quality, highly visual documents.
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