Capability Statement

Terence O’Rourke (TOR) is a leading consultancy for achieving success from the planning process. We provide inspired and imaginative planning and design solutions, unlocking opportunities at the forefront of best practice and at the cutting edge of commercial thinking.

Track record

We have a track record of delivering successful schemes for our clients in the property and development industry which is second to none, including many award winning projects. Many of our projects are high profile and are at the forefront of the economic recovery.

Over the last two years, our planning permissions have helped to secure several hundred million pounds of investment and over 10,000 jobs. We are actively working on schemes that will deliver over 40,000 homes.

An integrated team

Our team’s unique skill-set in the planning, design and environmental professions, working closely as one integrated unit, deals creatively with challenging planning situations to deliver commercially viable solutions across all sectors of the economy.

What sets us apart is how we integrate our disciplines to give clients a bespoke team of experts tailored to meet their project’s needs. We have a close relationship with our clients, taking care to listen to them and understand their objectives so that we often exceed their expectations. This approach creates comprehensive, innovative solutions to even the most complex planning challenges.

Our people

Our people are the key to our success and our team is self-motivated and enthusiastic about its work.

We only employ the very best people and are committed to nurturing their talent, encouraging innovation and promoting from within. Our highly experienced team has a diverse range of backgrounds and interests and we have a low staff turnover.

ABOUT US

2012 AWARDWINNER

• Town planning• Master planning• Environmental consultancy • Landscape architecture • Architecture• Graphic design• Geographic information systems

Clients: British Racing Drivers’ Club / Octagon Motorsports Ltd / Silverstone Estates / MEPC

SILVERSTONENORTHAMPTONSHIRE

The home of British motor racing, Silverstone Circuit is a world famous venue that generates substantial economic benefits for the UK. Terence O’Rourke has assisted the circuit since 2000 to secure a number of substantial planning consents to redevelop and upgrade facilities, enabling it to compete more effectively with newer circuits abroad.

In 2012, Terence O’Rourke was a key part of the team responsible for gaining outline planning consent for the Silverstone Masterplan. The masterplan includes over 400,000 sqm of development, incorporating a business park, technology park, education campus and three hotels. It also includes spectator facilities, motorsport museum, welcome centre and other leisure spaces. The practice provided town planning advice during this project and prepared the planning application which included a complex environmental impact assessment.

Terence O’Rourke is currently assisting MEPC to realise its vision to create a high-performance technology and motorsport business estate at Silverstone Park through the submission of new outline planning application. This new development will build upon the very real synergies with the circuit, creating new connections with the Silverstone brand, businesses and suppliers together with the innovation and knowledge sharing that such close networking will generate.

• Town planning• Master planning• Environmental consultancy • Landscape architecture • Architecture• Graphic design• Geographic information systems

Clients: British Racing Drivers’ Club / Octagon Motorsports Ltd / Silverstone Estates / MEPC

SILVERSTONENORTHAMPTONSHIRE

The home of British motor racing, Silverstone Circuit is a world famous venue that generates substantial economic benefits for the UK. Terence O’Rourke has assisted the circuit since 2000 to secure a number of substantial planning consents to redevelop and upgrade facilities, enabling it to compete more effectively with newer circuits abroad.

In 2012, Terence O’Rourke was a key part of the team responsible for gaining outline planning consent for the Silverstone Masterplan. The masterplan includes over 400,000 sqm of development, incorporating a business park, technology park, education campus and three hotels. It also includes spectator facilities, motorsport museum, welcome centre and other leisure spaces. The practice provided town planning advice during this project and prepared the planning application which included a complex environmental impact assessment.

Terence O’Rourke is currently assisting MEPC to realise its vision to create a high-performance technology and motorsport business estate at Silverstone Park through the submission of new outline planning application. This new development will build upon the very real synergies with the circuit, creating new connections with the Silverstone brand, businesses and suppliers together with the innovation and knowledge sharing that such close networking will generate.

Lloyd’s Register appointed us to work on the redevelopment of the University of Southampton’s Boldrewood Campus to create a Maritime Centre of Excellence (MCE). Opened in 2015, the MCE is a collaboration between Lloyd’s Register and the university and provides a world class centre for innovation, business and education in maritime engineering, engineering sciences and other relevant maritime disciplines.

The building includes bespoke office accommodation, a Maritime Institute research facility, new university teaching and research accommodation in an attractive campus setting. The MCE is key to the university’s aspiration to remain one of the UK’s leading education and research institutions with an established international reputation. The scheme also contributes to Southampton’s status as an international maritime city.

Our role included the coordination, preparation and submission of a comprehensive planning application and necessary supporting information, including the management of a dedicated project website.

“Industries and universities have a vital role to play collaborating together to achieve sustained economic growth. Southampton has long been a centre of excellence for the marine industry so it is a fitting home for this new Institute.”

DAVID WILLETTS,

Universities and Science Minister

• Town planning • Urban design• Environmental consultancy • Graphic design

Awards 2016: RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence Finalist

Client: Lloyd’s Register

MARITIME CENTRE OF EXCELLENCESOUTHAMPTON

Image © University of Southampton

• Town planning • Landscape architecture • Architecture

Awards RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence - Best Planning for Natural and Built Heritage - Finalists

2011: International Hotel Awards - Best Hotel Architecture and Best Small Hotel Design

Client: Chewton Glen Hotel and Spa

CHEWTON GLEN HOTELHAMPSHIRE

Terence O’Rourke has a long-established relationship with this award-winning independent hotel and spa on the edge of the New Forest National Park.

We originally devised an estate-wide master plan for a number of development projects on the estate, based around a new golf course. Following this, we gained full planning permission for a new bedroom wing adjacent to the sensitive southern façade of the original hotel building, and more recently for bespoke luxury treehouse suites, designed by our team of architects.

The practice has implemented a political strategy, in the context of restrictive planning policies and environmental constraints that has ensured continued support for development at the hotel. In January this year, the strategy also delivered planning permission for a cookery school and tasting floor, in association with celebrated chef James Martin.

“ We are delighted that our success on the tree house suites brought Chewton Glen back to our door for this exciting new venture.we are never ones to shy away from a complex or difficult project and while obtaining permission to build within the green belt is challenging, our ability to demonstrate how the project would make a significant contribution to the local economy and support young professionals hoping to enter the hospitality industry really helped us to succeed.”

BRIDGET PEARCE, Special Projects Director

© Image courtesy of Chewton Glen Hotel

UK UK

• Town planning • Landscape architecture • Architecture

Awards RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence - Best Planning for Natural and Built Heritage - Finalists

2011: International Hotel Awards - Best Hotel Architecture and Best Small Hotel Design

Client: Chewton Glen Hotel and Spa

CHEWTON GLEN HOTELHAMPSHIRE

Terence O’Rourke has a long-established relationship with this award-winning independent hotel and spa on the edge of the New Forest National Park.

We originally devised an estate-wide master plan for a number of development projects on the estate, based around a new golf course. Following this, we gained full planning permission for a new bedroom wing adjacent to the sensitive southern façade of the original hotel building, and more recently for bespoke luxury treehouse suites, designed by our team of architects.

The practice has implemented a political strategy, in the context of restrictive planning policies and environmental constraints that has ensured continued support for development at the hotel. In January this year, the strategy also delivered planning permission for a cookery school and tasting floor, in association with celebrated chef James Martin.

“ We are delighted that our success on the tree house suites brought Chewton Glen back to our door for this exciting new venture.we are never ones to shy away from a complex or difficult project and while obtaining permission to build within the green belt is challenging, our ability to demonstrate how the project would make a significant contribution to the local economy and support young professionals hoping to enter the hospitality industry really helped us to succeed.”

BRIDGET PEARCE, Special Projects Director

© Image courtesy of Chewton Glen Hotel

UK UK

In 2012 Terence O’Rourke was commissioned to prepare a new masterplan for Marwell Zoo providing a framework for the future development of the wildlife park. A series of projects have followed including a new immersive Wild Explorers exhibit housing three endangered species (white rhino, scimitar-horned oryx and grevy’s zebra) and is due for completion in summer 2015. A dramatic new state of the art Tropical House and Energy Centre will follow in 2017.

Leading teams of specialist consultants, the practice have been responsible for the concept and detail design of the largest and most complex exhibits the zoo has undertaken to date.

The zoo is set in the sensitive South Downs around the listed Marwell Hall, and our planning and environmental skills have been instrumental in providing a smooth planning process.

The exhibits look beyond the creation of architecture to a landscaped theatrical experience that immerses the visitor into a different world that provides heightened viewing and awareness of these precious endangered species.

• Master planning• Architecture• Town planning• Landscape architecture• Environmental consultancy

Client: Marwell Zoo

MARWELL WILDLIFEWINCHESTER

© Mercedes-Benz World

DaimlerChrysler identified Brooklands in Surrey, the site of the world’s first purpose built motor racing circuit, as the ideal location for its flagship UK Mercedes-Benz World. Owing to its position in the metropolitan green belt, its designation as a conservation area and scheduled monument, and concerns over flooding and traffic impact, the development raised significant planning considerations.

Working closely with Elmbridge Borough Council we led the process of consultation, environmental impact assessment and overall project design to gain planning consent and avoid a public inquiry. The project’s many benefits include a 24-hectare community park, improvements to local flooding and highway problems and the production and implementation of a conservation plan in association with English Heritage .

We continue to work in close association with Mercedes-Benz and Elmbridge Borough Council to ensure that Mercedes-Benz World is able to evolve and adapt to meet changing market expectations.

This project was awarded a national RTPI Award for .

• Town planning• Environmental consultancy• Graphic design

Awards 2007: RTPI Awards - Award for Heritage

2007: SERTPI Awards - Commendation for Good Practice in the use of the Planning Process

2007: Elmbridge Borough Council Design Award

Client: Mercedes-Benz Retail Group UK Ltd

MERCEDES-BENZ WORLD BROOKLANDS, SURREY

“Through a carefully managed strategy, Terence O’Rourke was able to find solutions to considerable planning problems, with a very successful result for us.”

PETER O’HALLORAN, Managing Director, Mercedes-Benz World

© Mercedes-Benz World

DaimlerChrysler identified Brooklands in Surrey, the site of the world’s first purpose built motor racing circuit, as the ideal location for its flagship UK Mercedes-Benz World. Owing to its position in the metropolitan green belt, its designation as a conservation area and scheduled monument, and concerns over flooding and traffic impact, the development raised significant planning considerations.

Working closely with Elmbridge Borough Council we led the process of consultation, environmental impact assessment and overall project design to gain planning consent and avoid a public inquiry. The project’s many benefits include a 24-hectare community park, improvements to local flooding and highway problems and the production and implementation of a conservation plan in association with English Heritage .

We continue to work in close association with Mercedes-Benz and Elmbridge Borough Council to ensure that Mercedes-Benz World is able to evolve and adapt to meet changing market expectations.

This project was awarded a national RTPI Award for .

• Town planning• Environmental consultancy• Graphic design

Awards 2007: RTPI Awards - Award for Heritage

2007: SERTPI Awards - Commendation for Good Practice in the use of the Planning Process

2007: Elmbridge Borough Council Design Award

Client: Mercedes-Benz Retail Group UK Ltd

MERCEDES-BENZ WORLD BROOKLANDS, SURREY

“Through a carefully managed strategy, Terence O’Rourke was able to find solutions to considerable planning problems, with a very successful result for us.”

PETER O’HALLORAN, Managing Director, Mercedes-Benz World

The BMW Group required a new world headquarters and manufacturing plant for Rolls-Royce cars. A site close to the famous Goodwood motor circuit was chosen, for which we prepared a comprehensive planning application and full environmental impact assessment.

The submissions to Chichester District Council illustrated compelling economic reasons for the scheme to go ahead quickly despite the significant planning constraints applicable to the chosen site. Planning permission was granted in a very short time, with widespread local support and without the need for a public inquiry. The company quickly generated up to 500 jobs as well as providing the basis for support activities vital to the local, regional and national economy. The building is topped with a curving, living roof reflecting the topography of the site and assimilating it into the surrounding sensitive countryside.

• Town planning• Environmental consultancy • Landscape architecture • Graphic design

Awards 2007: South East Royal Town Planning Institute (SERTPI) Awards - Award for Development in a Sensitive Area

Client: BMW Group

ROLLS-ROYCE HEADQUARTERSCHICHESTER, SUSSEX

© Crown copyright and database rights 2012 Ordnance Survey AL100017826 & 100019980.

Terence O’Rourke was originally appointed by the University of Surrey in 1996 as planning consultants and to provide master planning and environmental impact assessment for a new campus to expand teaching facilities and student accommodation. We secured a development allocation for university purposes in the local plan which involved removal of 70 ha of land from the green belt. Care was taken toprotect a scheduled monument and views to and from anearby Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The masterplan was granted outline planning permission in 2004 and we continue to be involved in a series of reserved matters and full planning applications for student residences, sports facilities, academic buildings and ancillary development. About 1,750 new student residences have now been built, plus a Post Graduate Medical School and the impressive new Surrey Sports Park building. Current projects include associated sports pitches and creation of accommodation for a new School of Veterinary Medicine.

Client: University of Surrey

UNIVERSITY OF SURREYMANOR PARK CAMPUS EXPANSIONGUILDFORD

• Town planning • Master planning• Environmental consultancy • Landscape architecture • Graphic design

© Crown copyright and database rights 2012 Ordnance Survey AL100017826 & 100019980.

Terence O’Rourke was originally appointed by the University of Surrey in 1996 as planning consultants and to provide master planning and environmental impact assessment for a new campus to expand teaching facilities and student accommodation. We secured a development allocation for university purposes in the local plan which involved removal of 70 ha of land from the green belt. Care was taken toprotect a scheduled monument and views to and from anearby Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The masterplan was granted outline planning permission in 2004 and we continue to be involved in a series of reserved matters and full planning applications for student residences, sports facilities, academic buildings and ancillary development. About 1,750 new student residences have now been built, plus a Post Graduate Medical School and the impressive new Surrey Sports Park building. Current projects include associated sports pitches and creation of accommodation for a new School of Veterinary Medicine.

Client: University of Surrey

UNIVERSITY OF SURREYMANOR PARK CAMPUS EXPANSIONGUILDFORD

• Town planning • Master planning• Environmental consultancy • Landscape architecture • Graphic design

Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - ‘The Making of Harry Potter’ TM & © 2013 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

• Town planning• Environment• Master planning• Landscape architecture

Client: Warner Bros. Celebrating the incredible craftsmanship that went into producing the Harry Potter series of movies, Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – ‘The Making of Harry Potter’ ™ opened in March 2012. The tour celebrates the artistry and cinematic excellence of the highly skilled production team, which brought to life the most successful film franchise in history, at Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire.

Over the last years, Terence O’Rourke has supported Warner Bros. by providing planning consultancy, environmental and landscape architecture services for the Studio Tour, and the refurbishment and extension of the Studios within which it sits. We delivered the planning consent without the need for environmental impact assessment and without the application being ‘called in’ by the Secretary of State, and continue to work closely with the Warner Bros. team.

The economic value of film related tourism attractions is well documented, and we worked closely with Screen East in advancing the very positive local and national economic benefits of the scheme and ensuring the educational aspects of the scheme were promoted.

Since opening, the Tour has won various awards including: Best UK Visitor Attraction – Group Leisure Awards 2012 and the Outstanding Achievement Attraction 2012 from the Themed Entertainment Association.

WARNER BROS. STUDIO TOUR LONDON ‘THE MAKING OF HARRY POTTER’ TM

LEAVESDEN

Image courtesy of © Archial - Architects for the Fawood Centre.

Image © Terence O’Rourke Ltd

“ We are proud to have been nominated as The Times and Sunday Times University of the Year 2016. The University has been working with Terence O’Rourke for over 15 years, and the team’s exceptional vision and technical planning knowledge have been crucial in helping us to secure 3 million square feet of development, including the World Standard Surrey Sports Park, used by accomplished sportsmen and women.”

DR MALCOLM PARRY OBE

Managing Director Surrey Research Park

Image courtesy of © Archial - Architects for the Fawood Centre.

Image © Terence O’Rourke Ltd

“ The TOR team specialises in really challenging planning tasks. What defines them is not just their intellectual ability to make a technical planning case, but their antennae and political judgment to navigate the public mood, consultees and council chambers.”

RICK DE BLABY

Chief executive, United House Group

Image courtesy of © Archial - Architects for the Fawood Centre.

Image © Terence O’Rourke Ltd

“ Chewton Glen is one of the most renowned Hotels and Spas in the World. Terence O’Rourke has successfully supported the evolution of this unique property with design and planning solutions - the most significant being the Treehouse Suites. The practice’s experience of large and high profile national projects coupled with the team’s local knowledge added a huge amount of value to this project which, since its completion in 2012 has brought the hotel unprecedented international PR exposure and improved the dynamics of the business.”

ANDREW STEMBRIDGE

Managing Director, Chewton Glen

Image courtesy of © Archial - Architects for the Fawood Centre.

Image © Terence O’Rourke Ltd

“ Building the UK’s future zoos requires a knowledge and respect for conservation and animal welfare, and the ability to challenge the accepted relationship between the landscape and the building. Terence O’Rourke worked with us to understand the complex relationships and requirements of the ‘Wild Explorers’ species and assisted in producing a truly world class exhibit, respectful of our ethos.”

JAMES CRETNEY

Chief Executive, Marwell Wildlife

Image courtesy of © Archial - Architects for the Fawood Centre.

“ I have always regarded Terence O’Rourke as being more likely to gain planning permission for a client than many other planning consultants. They invariably seem to connect with planning officers’ thinking, obtain their trust in negotiations, prepare the ground thoroughly and not to be too much in a hurry to go to appeal. Whatever planning may bring in the next 30 years, it is sure to be with the input and influence of TOR.”

JOHN STEEL QC

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