Planning Consultation & Stakeholder Engagement
Supporting pre-application consultation, stakeholder engagement and community relations to strengthen planning submissions, address local concerns and reduce the risk of avoidable objections and delays.
Specialist service · Planning & development
Planning, Section 106 & Social Value Delivery.
Supporting planning permission. Meeting local authority requirements. Managing community opposition. Delivering measurable social value.
Book a Planning & Social Value Consultation
From planning to delivery
Make development commitments practical, credible and measurable.
Securing planning permission and delivering successful developments requires more than meeting technical planning requirements. Developers must navigate local authority expectations, engage meaningfully with communities and demonstrate how their projects contribute to local economic, social and environmental priorities.
At Verdantise, we support developers, housebuilders, main contractors and regeneration partners from early planning consultation through to Section 106 obligations, stakeholder engagement, subcontractor mobilisation and social value delivery.
Our expertise extends to public-sector procurement and contractual social value requirements, including PPN 002, helping clients align their commitments with relevant procurement frameworks, local priorities and project delivery expectations.
We bridge the gap between client objectives, council requirements and community expectations, helping developments progress with confidence while delivering credible, measurable outcomes.
How we support your development
Support across the project lifecycle.
From early consultation to contract mobilisation, delivery and reporting.
Section 106 & Social Value Strategy
Developing meaningful, commercially realistic social value strategies aligned with local authority priorities, agreed planning obligations and community needs.
Subcontractor & Supply Chain Delivery
Translating social value commitments into practical delivery requirements across contractors and subcontractors, with clear accountability for local employment, skills, procurement and community benefits.
Community Relations & Opposition Management
Managing relationships with residents, councillors, local businesses and community organisations to build trust, address concerns and support positive relationships throughout development and construction.
PPN 002 & Public-Sector Social Value
Supporting organisations bidding for and delivering public-sector contracts to respond to applicable Social Value Model requirements, establish measurable commitments and integrate social value into contract delivery and supply-chain management.
Compliance, Monitoring & Impact Reporting
Helping clients monitor performance, evidence delivery and demonstrate compliance with relevant planning, contractual and social value commitments.
Our experience
Grounded in construction, regeneration and public-sector delivery.
Proven experience across residential development, regeneration, specialist construction and national public-sector programmes.
Verdantise's leadership brings direct experience supporting major construction and infrastructure projects, working with developers, contractors, local authorities and public-sector stakeholders to translate social value and community commitments into practical delivery.
Hill Group East London
Supporting community engagement, stakeholder relationships and social value delivery within residential development projects, responding to local needs and development priorities.
Wates Residential development
Supporting regeneration programmes through stakeholder engagement, social value strategy and community-focused initiatives, connecting development commitments with local employment, skills and economic opportunities.
ISG Central London life sciences
Working across multiple client projects to meet client-specific social value objectives, local council expectations and applicable planning requirements, including coordinating stakeholders and aligning commitments with local priorities.
Ministry of Defence MOD projects
Experience supporting social value requirements on national public-sector projects, aligning delivery with applicable procurement commitments, contractual expectations and stakeholder priorities.
Ministry of Justice MOJ projects
Experience supporting social value and community benefit requirements across national programmes, with an understanding of public-sector accountability, procurement expectations and measurable delivery outcomes.
These examples describe the founders' professional experience before or separately from Verdantise and are not presented as contracts awarded to Verdantise.
This breadth of experience enables us to understand both the strategic requirements established during planning and procurement and the operational realities of delivering commitments across multiple projects, contractors and stakeholders.
Why Verdantise?
We understand what is required, what is achievable and what successful delivery looks like.
We help clients move beyond commitments on paper to deliver outcomes that meet contractual expectations, respond to local needs and strengthen the long-term value of their developments.
- Planning and local authority alignmentSupporting relevant planning policies, Section 106 obligations and council priorities.
- Stakeholder and community engagementBuilding constructive relationships and managing potential opposition.
- Public-sector procurement expertiseSupporting PPN 002 and applicable contractual social value requirements.
- Construction and subcontractor deliveryEmbedding commitments into practical project and supply-chain activities.
- Compliance and measurable impactDemonstrating outcomes through credible evidence and reporting.
Frequently asked questions
Planning, Section 106 and social value: the essentials.
What is a Section 106 agreement?
A Section 106 agreement, also called a planning obligation, is a legal agreement between a developer or landowner and the local planning authority, made under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. It secures commitments needed to make a development acceptable in planning terms, such as affordable housing, infrastructure contributions, local employment and skills. Obligations must be necessary, directly related to the development, and fairly and reasonably related to it in scale and kind. Scotland uses a similar mechanism under Section 75.
What is PPN 002, and who does it apply to?
PPN 002 is the Cabinet Office procurement policy note on taking account of social value when awarding central government contracts under the Procurement Act 2023. It replaced PPN 06/20 and applies to central government departments, executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies. These organisations must give social value a minimum weighting of 10% of the total score, and the commitments made by the winning supplier are written into the contract. Its use has been mandatory for procurements started on or after 1 October 2025.
How do Section 106 obligations and social value commitments fit together?
They come from different routes. Section 106 obligations are attached to a planning permission, while social value commitments are usually made through procurement and contracts. On many developments they overlap, for example in local employment, apprenticeships, local supply-chain spend and community investment. Planning them together avoids duplication, keeps targets realistic and makes evidence easier to collect and report.
When should we involve Verdantise?
Ideally early, before or during pre-application consultation, so that engagement and social value commitments shape the application rather than being added later. We also support projects that are already on site: turning agreed obligations into contractor and subcontractor requirements, monitoring delivery and reporting evidence to the council or client.
Let's make your development deliver
Book a Planning & Social Value Consultation
Planning an application or delivering Section 106 commitments?
Verdantise provides the strategic expertise and practical support to help your development meet its requirements, manage stakeholder expectations and deliver lasting local value.
Preparing a planning application, navigating Section 106 obligations or delivering public-sector social value commitments?
Contact Verdantise
Discuss your development.
Tell us about the site, where it is in the planning process and any Section 106 or social value commitments involved. We will come back to you to arrange a consultation.
Email us directlyOur perspective
Independent. Women-led. Experience across the UK and Africa.
Send an enquiry
Website privacy notice
Last updated: 6 November 2026
Who we are
Verdantise is the controller of the personal information collected through this website. You can contact us about anything in this notice at info@verdantise.com.
What we collect
When you send an enquiry through the form, we receive your name, email address, organisation (if given), the service you are interested in and your message. If you email us directly, we receive your email address and whatever you include in your email. Please do not send sensitive information, such as health details, through the form.
This website does not use cookies, analytics or advertising trackers. The fonts and map are built into the page, so viewing it does not send your information to font or map providers. Our hosting provider, Netlify, processes technical information such as your IP address in order to deliver the website and keep it secure.
How we use it and why
We use your information only to reply to your enquiry and handle any follow-up correspondence. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in responding to people who contact us. Where you ask about working with us, we also process it to take steps you have asked for before entering into a contract. We do not sell your information or use it for marketing without your consent.
Who we share it with
Enquiries submitted through the form are processed by Netlify, Inc., which hosts this website and operates its form service; this includes automated spam filtering of submissions. Netlify is based in the United States. Transfers to Netlify are protected under the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and, where that does not apply, the UK International Data Transfer Addendum in Netlify's data processing agreement. Enquiries are then passed to us using Google services (Google Apps Script and Google Sheets), which email them to our inbox and keep a record of them on our behalf. Our email provider also processes our correspondence. We do not share your information with anyone else unless the law requires us to.
How long we keep it
We keep enquiries and related correspondence for up to 24 months after our last contact with you. If your enquiry leads to us working together, we keep the relevant records for as long as needed to manage that work and meet our legal and accounting obligations.
Your rights
You have the right to ask for a copy of your information, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to how we use it, and to receive it in a portable format. To use any of these rights, email info@verdantise.com. We will respond within one month.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, please contact us first. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or on 0303 123 1113.
Changes to this notice
We may update this notice from time to time. The date at the top shows when it was last changed.