NLP

Over the years we have developed an outstanding track record for tackling difficult planning issues using practical yet imaginative approaches. We pride ourselves on taking an innovative approach to commissions and we are constantly exploring new ideas and technologies to support our work. We are firmly committed to planning as an activity which can secure the objectives of economic development without compromising the wider interests of the public and the environment.

Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners provides the highest quality of advice and our team of experienced staff always responds rapidly to our clients’ requirements.

Approach to Commissions

We are experienced in adopting a variety of roles on projects. This can involve acting as team leader managing a large consultancy team or providing specialist inputs to established projects. The partnership approach, whether with clients or associated consultants, is invariably the most productive. Consequently, we always aim to provide a service that is not only of the highest quality but also friendly and pragmatic. Directors always lead projects but we aim to introduce the client to the project team as a whole. This ensures that communication between the Practice and the client is as effective as possible.

Our advice reflects a full understanding of environmental, social and economic issues and, where applicable, the essential need to obtain planning permission.

Company Ownership

The Company is entirely owned by an Employee Benefit Trust. Since a management buyout in 1993 the Directors have firmly believed that their clients’ and employees’ objectives can most effectively be met in a firm that is independent and focussed on town planning. Advice is unfettered by business interests from other disciplines within the firm, the strategic direction of the firm is planned for the long term based upon the opportunities in the town planning market in which we trade, and our staff recruitment, management and training is targeted at the needs and aspirations of professional planners.

The establishment of the Trust in the late 1990s and its subsequent acquisition of the entire share capital of the firm assist in the long term retention of these benefits and we have no financial or other obligations to external shareholders. We believe the advantages this brings enable us to recruit and retain high quality staff and provide a stability that assists us to build long term relationships with our clients.