A planning and environmental consultancy, based in Norwich with offices in London and Cambridge, that helps clients win planning permission and manage environmental and heritage issues.
Lanpro is a planning and environmental consultancy. Planning consultants advise the people who want to build, such as developers, landowners and energy companies, on how to get permission from the local council or government and how to keep a project within the rules. Lanpro's pages list land and site appraisals, planning applications and appeals, listed building consents, expert evidence at public inquiries, environmental impact assessments, heritage and townscape assessments, community consultation and help with neighbourhood plans. It also offers landscape architecture, urban design, archaeology, ecology, tree surveys, visualisation and mapping with GIS (geographic information systems).
The company marks 26 May 2023 as its 15th anniversary, which implies it began around 2008. Its Norfolk Chamber of Commerce profile describes it as the largest independent planning consultancy in the East of England and as "results driven", with practical yet imaginative problem-solving and high-quality professional advice. We did not find a longer mission statement or founder names, so we have not invented one. It has supported several nationally significant infrastructure projects in solar and renewable energy, large projects decided by central government and not local councils.
Lanpro is based in Norwich. In January 2023 it opened new offices in central London and Cambridge, and an anniversary report says its headcount grew by about 20% in the previous year. A Planning magazine survey named it as one of the ten fastest-growing planning consultancies in the UK in 2019, and it was nominated for Best Planning Consultant at the 2022 Eastern Echo Awards. Its group is also known as Lanpro Group. Check which other offices have opened since 2023.
On culture, Lanpro's head of people and talent, Fraser Gamblin, said in 2023 that having everyone under one roof had been fantastic for the culture, and the firm credits the skills of its people for its success. It emphasises long-term client relationships. A planned rebrand was mentioned in 2023. We could not find any details of a values page, so you would need to ask staff directly or look at the company's website for more on working life.
The jobs at a planning consultancy include town planners (chartered or working towards chartership), graduate planners, landscape architects, heritage and archaeology specialists, ecologists, arboriculturists, GIS and visualisation staff, and project managers and bid writers. Geography, planning, environmental science, archaeology, landscape and architecture degrees all lead here. Planning is a good fit for people who want to shape how towns and countryside change, but prefer policy, argument and evidence to drawing.
Website: www.lanpro.com
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