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Urban Flow

Urban Flow : transport planning consultants

Movement  People  Places

We look wider than conventional transport planning and traffic engineering – to us it’s about getting things moving, whether by foot, cycle, bus, car or rail.  

 

Bridging the gap between engineering and vision, we bring a Big Picture view in supporting and leading masterplanning, placemaking, development planning, cycling schemes, town centre and high street regeneration  – to name just a few.

 

We give what's needed to meet your needs:

  • we don’t over-analyse or over-engineer

  • if a high-level approach is all that’s needed – we say so

  • if a more detailed analytical approach is needed – we do that too

  • we say it the way we see it

  • if our insight can save client time, resource and money - we'll save it!

What We Do
Transport scheme design Urban Flow transport consultancy

                       ...we're Transport Planners!
Transport Assessment - Placemaking - Masterplanning - High Streets - Parking - Walking & Cycling - Bus Planning - Deliveries - Research...

Development Planning

Masterplanning & regeneration support

 

Development Planning

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Transport Assessment


Car parking schemes and strategies

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Cycle parking

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Active Travel

 

Design Guidance

 

Best Practice, research, guidance

 

Hospital / University campus planning

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Transport Funding Bids

Streets & Places

Traffic Management 

 

Cycle Scheme Design & Planning 

 

Walking Schemes and Initiatives 

 

Street Design / Engineering 

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Access & Movement Planning

 

Bus Priority and Service Planning 

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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs)

 

Deliveries & Servicing 

 

Public Consultation

& Community Engagement

The Team
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The team

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John Emslie - Senior Director  From the outset, John wanted Urban Flow to do things a little differently, providing straightforward and real world movement advice, keeping it simple wherever possible.  That approach, blended with his experience from right across the transport field, has been widely welcomed, from traffic management through to placemaking and from transport assessment through to design guidance.  He specialises in supporting masterplans and public realm design and particularly relishes scheme visioning and engagement work.

 

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Lorna Sewell - Streets & Places Director   Lorna is passionate about people and places and so leads Urban Flow’s Streets and Places work area.  She particularly loves to collaborate with the different built environment disciplines and the community to bring about sustainable, positive, long-lasting change.  She is skilled in streets and places design, street auditing, movement strategies, funding bid preparation and developing innovative measures to enable more active and sustainable travel as part of major masterplans, town centre and high street projects.

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Simon Adams - Spatial Planning Director   Simon is Urban Flow’s Spatial Planning Director and has wide-ranging expertise in preparing movement strategies ranging from street-specific public realm improvement schemes through to town/city-wide regeneration.  He’s at home with a pen designing schemes, building spreadsheets to assess future scenarios and scheme impacts and presenting his work in clear, concise reporting with a strong visual content. 

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Projects

Our projects

We're very proud of the range and variety of our project work, ranging from traffic management to supporting masterplans, strategy and policy development to public realm scheme design support.  We get to collaborate with renowned clients and project partners across the UK tackling the full range of urban planning and design.

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Our clients​ & partners

Planning Authorities 

Barnet Council

Basingstoke and Deane Borough

Be First, Regeneration, LB Barking

Borough of King's Lynn & West Norfolk

Brent Council

Broadland and South Norfolk Council

Cambridge City Council

Ealing Council

Gravesham Borough Council

Hackney Council

Haringey Council

Homes England

Lewisham Council

London Borough of Bexley

London Borough of Hillingdon

London Borough of Hounslow

Luton Borough Council

Mansfield District Council

Newark & Sherwood District Council

Newquay Town Council

Oswestry Town Council

Oxfordshire County Council

Redbridge Council

Royal Borough of Greenwich

Rugby Borough Council

Shropshire Council

Tamworth Borough Council

Tewkesbury Borough Council

The WestTrans Partnership

Tower Hamlets Council

Uxbridge Council

Waltham Forest Council

Watford Borough Council

West Norfolk District Council

Westminster Real Estate

Winchester District Council

Consultant Partners​

Allies & Morrison
Architype
Aukett Swanke
BDP
Blackburn Ltd
Caroe Architects
Carter Jonas
Caruso St John
Contemporary Transport
Dendy Byrne
DP9

DSDHA Architects
Gardiner and Theobald
Gerald Eve
GL Hearn
Hassell Architects
Hawkins Brown
Ingham Pinnock
Jackson Coles
JCLA Landscape Architects
mae Architects

Mace

Prior and Partners

Sloane Stanley

Spheron Architects

Steyn Group
Stiff + Trevillion
Studio Weave
Temple Group

Turner & Townsend

00 Architects

Private Sector​

Canterbury Christ Church University

Castlepoint Regeneration

Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust

Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Great Ormond Street Hospital

Grosvenor

Heart of London Business Alliance

Historic England

King's College London University

London Metropolitan University

London South Bank University

Mercato Metropolitano

National Trust

Oswestry Business Improvement District 

Queen Mary University

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Victoria Business Improvement District

University of Bolton

University of Brighton

University of London

University of Manchester

Walton-on-Thames BID

Westminster Real Estate

What they say about us

Targeting effort

​"I have worked closely with Urban Flow to deliver a number of complex and difficult schemes.  Urban Flow were able to establish the key requirements for each area highlighting the specific needs of businesses, car users and the general public"  

 Street design, traffic management, access and movement project SE. London

Resourcefulness

"This is great - thanks so much.  I totally follow [the approach] and that looks like an excellent use of the information we have and a clever and very rational approach"  

Leisure development SE. London

Community Consensus

“A huge huge THANK YOU from me and I know the Residents - we NEED this! Please let the rest of the team know we really appreciate all their help!”

United Residents' Group, W. London

“I wanted to say a personal thank you to you and the team for the progress we’ve made. I appreciate it is not always easy but to get this level of consensus I think is great."

Council Portfolio Holder W. London

Getting the job done!

"Just wanted to say a massive thank you for all your hard work in putting this important document together, I’m really pleased with how it turned out especially in the circumstances.  Thanks for dropping everything and getting it done, it is very, very much appreciated"

Funding Bid - W. London Council

Enabling successful development

"Senior Members and Officers were impressed with the detail of submission and the project yet again meeting another challenging timescale within the key milestone programme.   

Board Members were also extremely grateful for your individual contribution within the wider team. Your professionalism and dedication to ensure a successful submission was fully recognised"

Civic Centre, Northants

Effective Project Management

"The Major Scheme was run with excellent PM governance, consultation and innovative ideas and was an exemplar for the Major Scheme process and collaborative working."

TfL Programme Manager

Our clients
Contact us

CONTACT

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Build Studios
203 Westminster Bridge Road

LondonSE1 7FR, England
United Kingdom
info@urban-flow.co.uk

You can contact us on this number:
07876 740932

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