What Quod does

Quod is a UK-based independent planning and development consultancy operating from London (21 Soho Square) and Leeds. The firm advises on some of the UK's largest and most complex planning matters, with particular depth in Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and Development Consent Order (DCO) examinations. It serves enterprise clients across four sector practices: Infrastructure (airports, nuclear, fusion, renewables, highways, water), Strategic (large-scale urban regeneration and masterplanning, including London Opportunity Areas and the Oxford-Cambridge corridor), Living (housing across all tenures — affordable, build-to-rent, co-living, PBSA, new settlements), and Commercial (industrial and logistics, sports and leisure, retail and office, R&D, data centres).

The company delivers its work through three core service lines: Planning Services (feasibility through applications, appeals, inquiries, and examinations), Infrastructure Planning Services (consenting strategy, environmental planning, socio-economic assessments, stakeholder engagement, expert witnesses), and Social and Economic Impact and Strategy Services. Teams are director-led and multidisciplinary, combining chartered planning (MRTPI), development economics, housing advisory, environmental, and socio-economic expertise. There is no proprietary technology product or platform; the offering is human-advisory in nature.

Quod generates revenue through professional consultancy fees negotiated on a project-by-project basis, with no public pricing or subscription model. Clients include Berkeley Group, Canary Wharf Group, Landsec, Places for People, Heathrow Airport Limited, EDF Energy, UKAEA, Battersea Power Station Development Company, Earls Court Development Company, Leeds United FC, and DHL/Mars UK. The business is structured as an Employee Ownership Trust, with no external institutional investors, and is privately held (Quod Limited, company number 07170188).

Name

Quod

Legal name

Quod Limited

Website

https://quod.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Quod is an independent UK planning and development consultancy advising enterprise clients on major infrastructure, regeneration, housing, and commercial projects, with particular expertise in Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) consenting and DCO examinations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Planning and Development Consultancy Services: Professional consultancy fees generated through providing strategic planning advice, DCO consenting services, socio-economic impact assessments, development economics, and environmental planning services to developers, infrastructure operators, local authorities, and landowners across the UK.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Quod is a UK planning and development consultancy providing director-led strategic planning, development economics, socio-economic impact, and environmental planning advice. Services cover the full project lifecycle from feasibility, site promotion and consenting strategy through applications, appeals, examinations and post-consent delivery, structured around four sector practices (Living, Infrastructure, Commercial, Strategic) for developers, infrastructure operators, local authorities and landowners.

Product overview

Quod is a leading independent planning and development consultancy offering a unified service portfolio rather than a modular software platform. The core offering comprises Planning Services, Infrastructure Planning Services, and Social and Economic Impact and Strategy Services, organized across four sector practices: Living, Infrastructure, Commercial, and Strategic. These services are director-led and multidisciplinary, combining expertise in planning strategy, development economics, housing advisory, infrastructure planning, environmental planning, and socio-economic consultancy to help clients navigate complex planning, development, and infrastructure challenges from strategy through delivery.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Planning Services Provides clear, commercially focused planning advice across all sectors, from early feasibility and site acquisition through applications, appeals, inquiries, examinations and post-consent delivery, for developers, landowners and public sector clients.
• Infrastructure Planning Services Combines strategy, technical expertise and practical experience to advise on consenting, environmental and socio-economic strategies for major infrastructure projects, including DCO consenting, environmental planning, socio-economic assessments, stakeholder engagement and expert witness services.
• Social and Economic Impact and Strategy Services Provides socio-economic assessments, community impact analysis, workforce and supply chain strategies, recruitment and training initiatives, and community benefit programme development for major development and infrastructure projects.
• Living Sector Advisory Planning, viability and socio-economic advice for housing developments across tenures including market sale, affordable, social rent, build-to-rent, co-living and student accommodation, supporting housebuilders, registered providers, councils and developers from small sites to large urban extensions and new settlements.
• Infrastructure Sector Advisory Specialist advice for renewables, nuclear, fusion, airports, water and highways infrastructure projects, providing strategic planning, consenting, environmental and socio-economic strategies for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).
• Commercial Sector Advisory Planning and environmental advice spanning industrial and logistics, sports and leisure, retail and office, research and development and data centres, helping unlock commercial sector opportunities across the UK.
• Strategic Sector Advisory Leading role in masterplanning, securing permission for and helping deliver some of the UK's most significant developments across super-strategic sites, London Opportunity Areas and the Oxford-Cambridge corridor.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 50,000 homes permitted in living sector across 85 boroughs in 5 years
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Pickard PropertiesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPickard Properties worked with Quod as planning consultancy for the redevelopment of former Weetwood Police Station in Leeds. Quod provided planning advice supporting the 127 built-to-rent apartment development on the brownfield site acquired from West Yorkshire Police.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Lichfields: Independent UK planning and development consultancy offering planning strategy, economic viability, masterplanning and infrastructure advisory across comparable sectors. Similar in scale and client profile to Quod with strong overlap on housing, regeneration and strategic site work.
• Stantec (formerly Barton Willmore): Stantec's UK planning practice, built on the acquisition of Barton Willmore, competes directly with Quod on strategic planning, masterplanning and large-scale development advisory for similar enterprise and public-sector clients across residential, strategic and infrastructure sectors.
• Turley: UK-based independent planning, design and development consultancy with directly comparable sector coverage in infrastructure, residential, commercial and strategic planning. Closest head-to-head independent rival to Quod in the UK planning market with similar scale and client mix.
• Montagu Evans: UK real estate consultancy with significant planning advisory practice serving developers, public-sector clients and landowners on comparable mandates. Overlaps with Quod on planning, development economics, viability and infrastructure advisory across London and regional UK markets.

Broad incumbents

• Savills: Global real estate services firm with a substantial UK planning division offering planning strategy, development advisory, and infrastructure consulting to similar enterprise clients. Comparable at the planning practice level, though typically bundled with broader real estate services.
• Arup: Global engineering and design consultancy with a significant UK planning practice offering strategic planning, infrastructure advisory and environmental assessment. Directly comparable to Quod on large infrastructure and NSIP projects, though typically bundled with engineering and design services.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with UK planning practice (incorporating legacy GL Hearn) providing development advisory, planning strategy and infrastructure consulting. Comparable on large infrastructure, regeneration and development advisory mandates, but as part of a global multidisciplinary platform.
• CBRE: Global real estate services firm with UK planning advisory competing for similar enterprise clients on planning, development and infrastructure advisory mandates. Differs from Quod in being part of a much broader real estate services platform rather than a planning specialist.
• Avison Young: Global real estate services firm with UK planning practice serving similar developer, investor and public-sector clients on planning, development and infrastructure advisory mandates. Overlaps with Quod on residential, commercial and strategic planning but within a broader real estate platform.
• JLL: Global real estate services firm with UK planning consultancy serving developers, investors and infrastructure operators. Comparable planning offerings to Quod on viability and development strategy, but typically delivered as part of broader real estate and capital markets mandates.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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