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Lichfields named UK Consultancy of the Year
19 May 2022Lichfields has secured further national recognition for its extensive range of services.
The company has been named ‘Consultancy of the Year’ in the inaugural UKREiiF Awards – which celebrate the best in class within the UK’s real estate, property, investment and infrastructure sectors.
The accolade comes at a time that Lichfields is celebrating its 60th anniversary across a network of nine regional offices employing 220 people.
We’re delighted with this recognition at the inaugural UKREiiF awards especially from such a pre-eminent judging panel.
Our submission focussed on the best of our infrastructure and real estate planning and development projects, and seemed to aligned well with what UKREiiF is all about.
UKREiiF is clearly hitting the right notes with its MIPIM style operation and getting stuck into all the topical issues facing UK real estate.
Our submission focussed on the best of our infrastructure and real estate planning and development projects, and seemed to aligned well with what UKREiiF is all about.
UKREiiF is clearly hitting the right notes with its MIPIM style operation and getting stuck into all the topical issues facing UK real estate.
James Fennell, Chief Executive
In its awards submission, Lichfields highlighted just some of the major national large-scale development projects the consultancy is involved with, including:
- Elements Edinburgh: A masterplan for a 30.4-hectare brownfield site that has changed and evolved over time, with a Digital Quarter at it heart along with housing for support workers.
- South Tees Development Corporation: Lichfields helped secure a CPO that brought more than 1,700 acres of land into the ownership of the development corporation, Teesworks.
- Milton Keynes East: A major expansion to the UK’s most successful New Town. Lichfields secured outline permission for 4,000-4,600 homes, along with around 400,000 m2 of mainly logistics employment space, community facilities and new open space; and full permission for new strategic highways including a new bridge over the M1.
In addition, Lichfields has been active and played a key role in revitalising town centre projects around the country, including:
- Castlegate Centre, Stockton
- Bishop Auckland
- Redcar Town Investment Plan
- Staines Town Centre sustainable development plan
The judging panel for the UKREiiF Awards comprised major influencers in the industry such as Lord Bob Kerslake, Thames Estuary Envoy Kate Willard and L&G’s Investment Director Pete Gladwell.
We were incredibly surprised by the high number of quality submissions for these Awards, and it was really difficult to cut these down to the shortlist and then the eventual winners. I must thank the Advisory Group for their involvement in helping to select the winners, and congratulations to all of those both shortlisted and winners.
Keith Griffiths, Chief Executive of UKREiiF