We are delighted to announce that Third Revolution, a team of planners, development and sustainability experts at the forefront of innovative and future-thinking projects, have secured the services of Dan Hay MRTPI MIED and Rowan Kinnaird AssocRTPI AIED, enabling our team to add economic and social impact reporting to the repertoire of life cycle planning services offered to our clients.

These hires position Third Revolution at the vanguard of socioeconomic analysis, allowing the team to combine the strengths of qualitative and quantitative scrutiny and add impetus to our company purpose of accelerating the transition to a sustainable world through delivering creative solutions to society's biggest challenges.

Dan and Rowan bring together a wealth of experience and complementary expertise, positioning Third Revolution to provide an even greater range of services and solutions to their valued clients.

Why this specialism?

The decision to bring these socioeconomic services in-house reflects Third Revolution’s shared vision to better serve our clients by:

Expanding service offerings

Integrating economic and social impact reporting, with Third Revolution’s market leading expertise in the renewable energy, commercial and residential sectors, and our innovative Future-Thinking strategy work, enables us to help clients navigate the increasingly complex policy and regulatory landscape which has a growing focus on economic growth and delivering comprehensive solutions from concept to completion.

Importance of Economic Growth

The NPPF is clear that significant weight should be placed on economic growth, but since most planning submissions don’t quantify these benefits, this is typically given limited weight by officers in their decisions. By providing socioeconomic analysis as part of the planning balance, Third Revolution can maximise the weight given to the positives of a development and demonstrating the wider socioeconomic contribution that an application makes to the local area.

Continuous Growth and Development

These hires solidify the fantastic growth of the company in the 8 years since its inception. The combined team will now have an even broader range of skills, knowledge, and experience, which will allow them to push the boundaries of creativity and excellence in every project.

A new era of excellence

Managing Director Robert Shaw says:

“As society, places and land uses are transformed by rapidly changing technologies, our team will be able to demonstrate the economic benefits of new energy infrastructure, data centres and residential projects, to communities, and to develop strategies for places to thrive. As such, we are very excited to bring Dan and Rowan into the Third Revolution team.”

Planning Director – Economics & Social Impact Lead, Dan Hay says:

“This is an exciting opportunity to combine our shared expertise to solve intricate problems and unlock complex sites. Socioeconomics is becoming increasingly important as part of the decision-making process and, by amalgamating this with Third Revolution’s wider planning offering, it allows a unique ability to tailor the socio-economic reporting to really capture the meaningful benefits specific to the local communities in which schemes are being delivered. I look forward to working closely with the team and their established clients to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world.’

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What this means for our clients

For our existing clients, it is business as usual — but better, with added expertise and resource. You will continue to work with the teams you know and trust, while benefiting from expanded resources, enhanced capabilities and innovative solutions.

Our joint expertise and passion give us the edge when it comes to securing planning consents, deliverable strategies and making our clients' ambitions a reality, enabling us to remain at the forefront of innovative and future-thinking projects.

For more information or questions about this exciting development, please don’t hesitate to contact us at

(e) findoutmore@thirdrevolutionprojects.co.uk

(w) www.thirdrevolutionprojects.co.uk

(t) +44 (0) 204 603 6130

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