From feasibility to completion

Specialist transport planning and highway design practice

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Feasibility

We help our clients with initial advice about prospective developments sites, whether that's a new driveway or a major mixed-used development.

Transport Planning

We provide a wide range of technical analysis, drawings and documents to support planning applications and appeals.

Highway Design

We provide expert design and drawing services before and after planning approval, working with our clients' planning teams to ensure planning permissions are realistic and deliverable.

Implementation

We produce all the necessary highway and infrastructure designs and detailed drawings to secure Technical Approval, including delivering on site.

Specialist transport planning and highway design — from feasibility to completion.

From feasibility to completion, we give developers and landowners the transport and highways advice they need to get schemes through planning — and built.

About Us

We give straight advice. Including when the answer is no. Precision and honesty are not at odds with
getting things done quickly — they're how you avoid costly mistakes down the line. Our ethos has
kept clients coming back to us for over 17 years, across retail, residential, healthcare, infrastructure, and more.

Our Services

Connect Consultants brings together transport planning and highway design as a unified discipline, giving clients a single point of expertise across every stage of a project — from early feasibility through to delivery.

Transport Assessments

A Transport Assessment is a detailed study that measures how a new development will affect local traffic, safety, and public transport. It proves to planners that a development's traffic can be managed and shows how the scheme encourages walking, cycling, and sustainable travel

Highway Design

All stages of the design process, from preliminary feasibility sketches, 2D and 3D drawings for planning applications, to detailed design drawings for technical approval and delivery.

Transport Statements

A Transport Statement is a simplified, lighter version of Transport Assessment, used for developments with smaller traffic impacts. It outlines the scheme's access arrangements and transport links to show the local roads can accommodate the proposal.

Travel Plans

A Travel Plan is a long-term strategy including practical actions to reduce a development's reliance on single-occupancy car journeys. It actively encourages residents or employees to choose smarter, sustainable options like car sharing, cycling, walking, and public transport.

WCHARs (Walking, Cycling and Horse-Riding Assessment and Review)

Walking, Cycling and Horse-Riding Assessment and Review (WCHAR) applies to highway schemes on motorways and trunk roads. They evaluate existing route safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and equestrians, to help identify opportunities for improvements.

Swept Path Tracking

Swept path tracking (or analysis) is a computer simulation that models the exact footprint and body overhang of a vehicle as it makes a turning manoeuvre. It provides visual evidence that essential vehicles like refuse trucks, delivery HGVs, and fire engines can safely navigate junctions and layouts.

We love working with our clients

We'll tell you no when no is the right answer. That honesty has made us a trusted advisor to some of the UK's largest retailers, developers, and planners since 2007.

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We have worked with the team at Connect Consultants for a number of years to support our planning applications with excellent results. The team are great to work with and Connect’s support has undoubtedly proved crucial on numerous projects. We currently recommend Connect to all our clients in need of highways advice and would have no hesitation recommending them to anyone else.

Atlas Planning GroupDan Roycroft, Director
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We have enjoyed a long term relationship with Connect Consultants, who have become a valued member of the Mercian Developments team of project advisors. Their attention to detail, and capabilities to resolve the various Highways challenges we encounter around the country, positions Connect as one of our ‘first go to consultants’, giving us valued advice and solutions in the care, retail and commercial sectors. Connect Consultants have a team that we would recommend you get on board to sort out all aspects of highways advice.

Mercian GroupChris Towers, Managing Director
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I have worked with Connect Consultants over a number of years, who have supported planning applications and planning promotion work. They are very professional in their approach and have proven to be good “team” players within the project team, their support has proven to be valuable on a number of development projects, over the years. I would have no hesitation in recommending Connect Consultants for highways and transport advice.

Nevin Holden, Strategic Development Planner
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Mac Mic Land have worked with Connect Consultants for several years on a variety of transport planning projects. We have always found them highly professional, responsive and straight-forward to deal with. I would have no hesitation in recommending them to others.

Mac Mic LandRichard Kelso, Regional Land Director
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Connect Consultants have been instrumental in our success to date at Tritax Park Newark. Not only have we delivered a new roundabout junction on the A17, Phase 2 includes almost 1m sq ft of B8 logistics development where we have gained an outline planning permission. On a development of that scale the transport involvement is significant, and the team have delivered the results required.

Tritax Big Box REITWill Broadhurst, Tritax Management LLP
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We have used Connect for many years and we always find their advice straight forward and concise. Highways can quite often be a contentious issue however Connect expertly guide us through these challenges with outcomes that align with our commercial objectives

Barcroft EstatesAndy Barton, Director
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Vail Williams works closely with Connect Consultants across multiple sites throughout the full planning application process. The team, especially Tim and Geraint, are a pleasure to work with and continue to be a thorough and prompt supplier.

Vail Williams LLPSuzanne Holloway, Regional Managing Partner, Gatwick
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Landra Developments has engaged Connect Consultants across a portfolio of land promotion sites and have always found them to be responsive and their advice pragmatic. They are an integral part of our professional team and collaborate well with the other disciplines. The quality of their written reports and technical drawings is also excellent.

Landra Developments LtdPhilip Rawle, Managing Director

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