Planning Prospects has played a long-standing role in shaping the eastern fringe of Worcester, promoting and delivering a series of key employment-led developments that have helped support the city’s outward growth strategy.

Planning Prospects first established itself as a business within Worcester before relocating to offices elsewhere in the county at Belbroughton. The company has maintained a prominent role in advising on a wide range of sites across the city, particularly along its eastern fringe. In support of the City Council’s aspiration for Worcester to become more “outward looking” and extend growth towards the M5, Planning Prospects has successfully promoted and secured the allocation and delivery of a number of strategic development sites, despite local policy and political resistance to expansion in this corridor.

Over a number of years, Planning Prospects has secured a series of planning permissions across Eastern Worcester, including:

• Nunnery Way – initially promoted for a new Worcester City Football Club stadium alongside enabling development, later amended to a mixed-use, employment-led scheme. The first phase, comprising employment uses alongside pub and restaurant floorspace, has been delivered, with further phases including a petrol filling station and car dealership to follow.
• Parsonage Way – planning permission secured for over 21,000 sq m of office, manufacturing and warehouse accommodation, with the first phase anticipated to commence in early 2019.
• Berkeley Way – planning permission granted for a new headquarters and R&D facility set within extensive landscaped grounds for a leading product developer and manufacturer.