Inspiring • Planning • Delivering

Inspiring • Planning • Delivering

DHA is the South East’s largest independent planning and highways consultancy delivering solutions built for success to clients across the United Kingdom.

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Eclipse Park, Maidstone
K3 Waste to Energy Facility
Contemporary Homes, Sevenoaks
Thannington Primary School
Pembury Hospital
Westwood Village One

Our Expertise in Planning

With a legacy built on experience and a forward-looking approach, we bring a deep understanding of our industry to every project we undertake. Our team combines time-tested expertise with modern innovation, ensuring solutions that maximise value of land whilst providing high quality schemes that benefit individuals and communities. This heritage of quality, consistency, and adaptability allows us to support our clients with confidence, delivering results that stand the test of time.

Wheelabrator Kemsley K3 (and WKN) Development Consent Order
Dinton Activity Centre, Wokingham
Wises Lame Masterplan
Oaklands Solar Farm
Infinity, Ashford
Millwall FC Training Ground
Sevenoaks Prep School

Our Services

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Planning

At DHA, we make securing planning permission as straightforward and transparent as possible. With nearly four decades of experience, strong relationships with local authorities and a commercial mindset, we develop tailored planning strategies that maximise development potential and support successful outcomes. From individual planning applications and land promotion to appeals and Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs), our town planning consultants provide expert advice and support at every stage of the planning process.
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Transport & Infrastructure

Our Transport and Infrastructure team combines in-depth technical expertise with extensive experience delivering transport planning projects across the UK. Working closely with local highway authorities, planning teams and project stakeholders, we identify transport and highways constraints early and develop practical, commercially focused solutions that unlock development potential, maximise site value and support successful planning applications.
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Environmental Impact Assessment

Our Environment team delivers sustainable, viable solutions to planning and environmental challenges. Working alongside our planning and transport teams, we advise on everything from early feasibility to large-scale developments and Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects. Early, pre-planning advice means environmental issues are identified from the start, so your proposals are environmentally sound before they are submitted.
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Flood Risk and Drainage

Flood Risk & Drainage

Our drainage and flood risk team have vast experience in the preparation of Flood Risk Assessments and drainage strategies for development in residential, commercial, agricultural and education sectors.
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Masterplanning & Urban Design Studio

Our design studio creates realistic, deliverable masterplans for major developments, working hand in hand with our in-house planning, transport, environment, drainage and viability teams.
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Land & Site Promotion

Site promotion is vital to identify land for future developments and to meet the needs of future generations.
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Development Viability

Our viability team gives specialist development viability advice to public and private sector clients. We advise from the first feasibility stages through to planning applications, late-stage review mechanisms, Section 106 agreements and CIL contributions, on a wide range of schemes.
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GIS & Referencing

Our Geographical Information System (GIS) service produces maps that help visualise data, identify patterns and support decision-making. Our planning, transport and environmental teams use it for analysis and presentation throughout their professional reports.
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Our People

With over 400 years of combined planning knowledge our expert team are ready to assist you with all your development related queries.

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Our Locations

Eclipse House, Maidstone Kent

Kent

The HQ of DHA, we have teams that operate in all specialisms in the Kent office servicing some of our longest standing clients as well as new business in the South of England.
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Astral Towers, Gatwick

Gatwick

DHA’s Gatwick office provides planning consultancy services across the UK but especially focused on the Gatwick Diamond, the M23 and M3 corridors, and the wider South East, including East and West Sussex, Surrey, South London and Hampshire.
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London

Located in Central London, close to London Bridge, our London office provides coverage across Greater London, Central London and wider. Our London team cover all types of residential, commercial and institutional projects, providing commercially focused planning, transport and viability advice.
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DHA's Leeds hub at One Embankment

Leeds

Our Leeds Hub has been established to better serve projects and clients in the Northern regions, and cultivate relationships with local authorities to better steer strategic development schemes.
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