Planning and designing major infrastructure

We help clients turn complex infrastructure proposals into consentable, buildable and operational schemes. Combining infrastructure planning with engineering design and delivery insight, we provide the strategic transport advice, robust evidence and practical solutions needed to manage risk, maintain momentum and move projects confidently from early concept through consent and into construction.
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Planning, designing and delivering major infrastructure with confidence

Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) are becoming harder to consent and deliver as stakeholders and interested parties gain familiarity with the process and broaden their expectations. Reforms proposed through the Planning and Infrastructure Bill aim to streamline consenting, but projects will still need technical rigour, flexibility and delivery insight from the outset. ITP, Haskoning’s UK transport planning team, support clients to make better decisions earlier, protect programme certainty and move infrastructure from planning approval into successful delivery.

Our four key pillars

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Build confidence in consent

We develop robust evidence that anticipates scrutiny and support defensible approvals. Drawing on consent, design and construction experience, we test how proposals will be built, phased and operated. Identifying constraints and risks early helps shape buildable consents, reduce redesign and avoid delays.
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Maintain flexibility

We test transport options and assumptions early, working with stakeholders and consenting authorities to accommodate feedback, design evolution and delivery constraints. This maintains flexibility, supports informed decisions and helps projects adapt without creating avoidable consent, programme or delivery risk.
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Design for practical delivery

Our advice reflects how transport infrastructure will be built, operated and maintained. Integrating We integrate access, movement and engineering requirements early creating practical solutions for construction and long-term operation. This reduces redesign, improves buildability and gives clients infrastructure that can respond to future growth.
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Connect every stage

We connect transport planning, environmental assessment, engineering design and delivery insight across planning, consent, construction, operation and compliance. Retaining knowledge between phases improves decisions, reduces handover risk, protect programme certainty and supports more coordinated delivery as schemes evolve.

Key services

Planning
Delivery management plans
Site selection
Environmental impact assessment (Transport)
Transport assessment & statements
Construction and operational phase travel plans
Expert witness at examination
Highway capacity assessments
Road safety impact assessments
Construction, Delivery & Compliance
Delivery management plans
Construction traffic management plans
Abnormal load studies
Site access solutions
Streetworks permitting
Transport coordinator
Community liaison & engagement coordinator
Design
Access design
Concept & preliminary design
Adoptable & private highway detailed highway design
Active travel infrastructure design
Drainage and SuDS design
BIM and 3D modelling

Our approach

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Understand

We understand planning requirements, project objectives, constraints and the wider delivery context. By considering programme, stakeholder, construction and operational requirements from the outset, we establish the right strategy, identify priorities early and create a clear route to successful project delivery.

Evidence

We develop proportionate transport, environmental and technical evidence to support project success. By testing assumptions, focusing on material issues and anticipating scrutiny, we reduce uncertainty, strengthen decision-making and create a clear route to successful project delivery.
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Engage

We engage stakeholders, consultees and decision-makers to support project success. By building constructive relationships, addressing concerns early and maintaining open dialogue, we build consensus, secure agreement and create a clear route to successful project delivery.

Design

We develop practical access, highway, active travel and drainage solutions to support project success. By integrating technical, operational, environmental and sustainability requirements from an early stage, we deliver robust outcomes, secure approvals and create a clear route to successful project delivery.
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Deliver

We manage transport impacts, consent requirements and delivery risks to support project success. By providing continuity from strategy through design, compliance, construction and operation, we maintain programme certainty, reduce delivery risk and create a clear route to successful project delivery.

Why our approach works

Planning and design expertise in one team
Combining transport planning, engineering design and delivery experience to avoid disconnects between consent, design and construction
Proven DCO and NSIP experience
Including Norfolk Vanguard & Boreas, Triton Knoll and Sizewell C, from site selection and DCO application through Examination, compliance and construction.
Market-leading transport Environmental Impact Assessment capability
Underpinned by Haskoning’s authorship of industry guidance on assessing traffic and movement, and applied across energy, ports, water, defence, transport and strategic development.
Practical delivery insight
Demonstrated through contractor and post-consent support, including access design, traffic management, transport coordination, compliance monitoring and construction logistics
Trusted by developers, contractors and legal teams
With experience across the infrastructure lifecycle and the needs of different stakeholders.
Protecting consent value throughout the infrastructure lifecycle
Going beyond planning approval to help clients adapt to change, maintain stakeholder confidence and realise the full value of their consent from strategy through construction and operation
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Protecting the long-term value of infrastructure consents in a changing world

As planning becomes faster and more streamlined, promoters need evidence, engagement and design decisions robust enough for scrutiny and practical enough for delivery.

This guide shows how developers, asset owners and contractors can protect the value of consent by reducing post-consent risk, retaining flexibility, challenging outdated assumptions with evidence and building stakeholder confidence through change.
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Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross

Director leading ITP’s Major Infrastructure team, Andy brings over two decades of strategic transport planning experience, shaping complex schemes from concept through consent and delivery.
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Sam Taylor

Sam Taylor

Associate Director in the Major Infrastructure team, Sam leads transport planning inputs for complex infrastructure schemes and provides senior advice through DCO Examination.
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Phil Marshall

Director in the Major Infrastructure team, Phil advises on complex transport planning for infrastructure, ports and strategic development, focusing on proportionate solutions that reflect scheme history and stakeholder requirements.
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Ryan Eldon

Ryan Eldon

Associate in the Major Infrastructure team, Ryan specialises in transport modelling and appraisal, developing evidence to test impacts, inform design and support planning and consent.
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Dean Johnson

Director leading ITP’s Design engineering team, Dean leads the development of practical infrastructure designs from concept through to construction.
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Shaun Kelly

Associate Engineer and Chartered Civil Engineer, Shaun specialises in highway design and local authority infrastructure improvement schemes, turning technical requirements into practical delivery solutions.
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One team. Broad expertise.

ITP (Integrated Transport Planning) is Haskoning's specialist, UK-based transport team. As part of Haskoning, ITP combines deep transport planning expertise with the strength of a multidisciplinary international consultancy. This brings together transport planners, environmental specialists, engineers, economists and infrastructure advisers within a single team. For clients delivering major infrastructure, energy, industrial, regeneration and development projects, this integrated approach provides seamless support across transport planning, Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs), engineering, stakeholder engagement and sustainable development. The result is joined-up advice, streamlined project delivery and better outcomes for people, places and the environment.

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Frequently asked questions

Transport influences consent, construction logistics and operation. Early transport EIA helps identify risks before they affect programme or delivery.
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