Scott Wilson

Scott Wilson Group plc, with over 5500 members of staff globally, provides sustainable, integrated solutions to meet the planning, engineering, management and environmental needs of clients across the transportation, property, environment and natural resources market sectors.

The Group has doubled in size over the past few years and from its UK headquarters currently controls a worldwide network of 80 offices, of which 40 are in the UK.  The main international centres are located in China, Hong Kong, India, SE Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Southern Africa.

Considerable progress has been made over the past year with a significant number of high profile contract wins. These include the East London Line, Airdrie Bathgate Rail Link, London Crossrail, Three Counties Alliance, Combe Down Mine Stabilisation, Bahrain Islands Developments, and Greece Ionian Motorway.

Scott Wilson was awarded ‘New Company of the Year' at the 2007 UK PLC Awards, ‘Major Firm' at the 2007 NCE/ACE Consultants of the Year Awards and ‘IPO of the Year' at the Shares Magazine Awards.

Scott Wilson is one of the top 10 largest planning consultancies in the UK. Our planning teams are based in the main regional centres of the UK. We have a growing presence in our key international offices working alongside our engineering and design colleagues.  Scott Wilson has a highly skilled team of planning, regeneration and design consultants working across the UK to deliver innovative and practical solutions for clients in both the public and private sectors.

Our understanding of development consultancy brings a unique approach to our partnership with our clients. Our ability to work alongside our environmental, transportation and engineering design colleagues provides our clients with a coordinated and flexible service able to bring original, practical thinking to their development aspirations. We seek to facilitate development whilst respecting environmental, heritage and policy issues.  Working from a range of regional centres, our team also brings valuable knowledge of local conditions and of key players in the local scene.

In 2006 we became one of the first RTPI Learning Partners, an indication of our commitment to the development of our planners at all levels of expertise and experience. Our strength lies in our ability to work within and manage multidisciplinary teams of specialists addressing the delivery of development proposals and in the diversity of planning support we can offer to public sector decision makers and policy formulators.

Our services include:

• Development Control Support;
• Planning Policy Analysis;
• Site Appraisal;
• Master Planning;
• Planning Appeals;
• Expert Witness Services;
• Retail Impact Assessment;
• Housing Capacity Studies;
• Urban Capacity Studies;
• Design and Access Statements;
• Discharge of Planning Conditions;
• Strategic Environmental Assessments and Sustainability Appraisal

As our planning business continues to grow across the UK, we are regularly recruiting for planning professionals at all levels.  We also operate a graduate recruitment programme and are keen to hear from graduates with an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in planning or a related discipline.  For information please visit our website, www.scottwilson.com/careers.