A family business, supporting other family businesses.

 
 

Collaborating to deliver sustainable growth and support your business, from feasibility to implementation.

Informed by expertise

Once we’ve joined your project, consider it done. We provide planning advice from chartered members of the Royal Town Planning Institute. And our long-standing relationships allow for multi-disciplinary support on everything from engineering and masterplanning to assessing environmental and economic impacts.

 

Our Services

We provide planning advice from chartered members of the Royal Town Planning Institute. Our work covers early stage planning analysis, masterplanning, the submission of prior notifications, certificates of lawfulness and planning applications and negotiation of planning permissions, public consultation, representations on Local Development Plans to inform policy and land allocations and grant submissions for project funding. We represent our clients’ interests on national infrastructure projects from HV power line, upgrades to water and gas networks and trunk road dualling.

A Strategic Approach

Our approach is underpinned by research and analysis and we take responsibility for every part of the project, managing multi-disciplinary teams throughout the planning and consent stages, to support your business, keeping you briefed.

Services

  • Planning Analysis

  • Masterplanning

  • Co-ordinaing planning submission

  • Negotiating planning permissions

  • Discharging planning conditions

  • LDP representations

  • Community consultation

  • Environmental assessments

  • Land disposals

  • Grant submissions

  • Research

The Ristol team

Our offices are in Dunblane’s Cathedral square, from where our team of chartered planners deliver projects for our clients throughout rural Scotland.

  • Mark Richardson
    BSc (Hons) MRTPI

    Ann Richardson
    BSc (Hons) MSc MRTPI

    Richard Phillips
    BA (Hons), Dip TP, Dip CM, MRTPI

  • Robert Sneddon
    BSc (Hons), Eng, GMICE (HPL - civil engineer)

    Alastair Forbes
    FRIAS RIBA ARB PGDip (AF Architects – masterplanner & architect)