Chris Pattison

Chris has been delivering challenging client briefs across the UK for more than 20 years.

This leading strategic planner knows that truly effective planning focuses on delivery rather than simply securing a planning permission. By crafting the best briefs and telling the best stories, Chris is driven by client needs and communicating these through the statutory planning process.

Chris has a strong track record in helping clients strategically plan their physical estate and deliver key projects. He is adept at developing and managing multi-disciplinary project teams and providing advice on all aspects of planning legislation and process. This includes the higher education, independent schools and sport sectors, working on behalf of organisations such as the University of Oxford and its Colleges, MCC at Lord’s and Girls Day School Trust; Chris also has experience in the planning and delivery of major new mixed-use communities around the UK, including three sister new towns in the north east of Scotland and is advisor to the Church Commissioners.

As Trustee and Vice Chair of Letchworth Heritage Foundation - the derivative of Ebeneezer Howard’s original First Garden City Ltd development company - Chris is actively involved in the expansion of the Garden City, which will see 900 new homes brought forward over the next decade.

Chris is a former Director of Turnberry Planning, before it was acquired by Bidwells in early 2022.

• Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute
• Trustee and Vice Chair of Letchworth Heritage Foundation
• Member of the Worshipful Company of Constructors

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Planning

Develop winning planning strategies that deliver successful projects

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Planning Consultancy

Comprehensive planning strategy and submission advice - tailored to your site and your objectives.

Our insights

Insights 07.08.25

The UK Government’s 2025 Industrial Strategy and Life Sciences Sector Plan (LSSP) articulate a bold vision for economic growth through innovation, with Oxford positioned as a central player. But beyond the rhetoric, is there tangible action?

Oxford’s Knowledge Cluster and UK Government Strategy: Ambition, advocacy and aspiration, but is there Action?

Insights 01.01.01

Bidwells have been instructed by the Landowner of The Lincoln South East Quadrant urban extension.

Lincoln South East Quadrant

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Report 2024

Two quotes, half a century and a continent apart, explain why housebuilding has declined to 145,000 per year, less than half of the Government’s objective of 300,000 p.a.

Planning Reform and Productivity

Report 2024

In Bidwells’ latest groundbreaking report, The Productivity Engine, we uncover the fundamental role that space plays in understanding - and solving - the UK’s productivity problems.

The Productivity Engine

Insights 12.09.21

As a result of net-zero legislation (including the Carbon Budget Order 2021) and the ongoing climate crisis, there is an ongoing systemic shift towards low-carbon and renewable energy for homes and businesses.

Planning authorities need to handle waste and minerals correctly