Sponsors

EDF Renewables UK and Ireland is part of one of the world’s largest electricity companies and our investment and innovation in renewable energy projects is reducing costs for consumers and bringing significant benefits to communities.

EDF Renewables has an experienced team bringing complex development projects to fruition, across various renewable technologies, including onshore and offshore wind, solar, battery storage and hydrogen with more than 550 colleagues across the UK.

With decades of expertise in developing land across the North East and Yorkshire, Banks Property (part of the Banks Group) is dedicated to promoting high-quality, much-needed homes for people in the places where they want to live. We prioritise working with communities and landowners throughout the development fostering local social, economic, and environmental benefits through every project. This is what we call development with care. 

Elevating modern living, Banks Homes is a regional house builder that create homes designed by life. Placed for perfection and combining style as standard with innovative sustainable design to seamlessly blend elegance, quality, and practicality.

Hedley Planning is an award winning town planning consultancy, with a strong regional focus and a track record for unlocking complex sites and securing implementable planning permissions for clients.

Operating from two north east offices, our highly experienced staff advise a range of clients for housing, commercial and industrial developers and investors. Our experience sets us apart from our peers, we bring commercial knowledge to all schemes to ensure clients have clear, sound direction.

Lichfields is the pre-eminent planning and development consultancy in the UK. Its specialists deliver insight, innovation and advice to create great places for future generations. In 2022, it celebrated its landmark 60^th anniversary.   

With over 250 people operating from a network of nine offices across the UK, it combines local contacts with the know-how to deal with every kind of project, large or small.

It offers a broad range of planning services including economics, heritage, sustainability, and urban design. Clients include local authorities, government bodies, as well as developers, landowners and operators in the housing, retail, leisure, commercial, and infrastructure sectors.

Origin Planning Services are a proactive and commercially focused Town Planning Consultancy that help our clients navigate through the complexities of the UK planning system. We aim to offer a professional and responsive service helping clients to secure a positive outcome in the shortest possible timescales. 

Ward Hadaway is one of the largest full service law firms in the North of England with a reputation for quality, innovation and adopting a practical approach to meeting our clients’ needs. With 93 partners and almost 500 staff, the firm’s partner-led approach with all clients is supported by a resource that has real strength in depth.

We operate from offices in Newcastle, Leeds and Manchester and have a substantial client base of regional, national and international clients from the public and private sectors. We have specialists and acknowledged experts in a number of fields with many of our partners being highly rated by legal directories and more importantly the clients they work for.

Vistry Group is a leading UK housebuilder, delivering high-quality, sustainable homes and communities across all housing tenures. As a partnerships-focused business, we work alongside local authorities, housing associations, and investors to deliver large-scale regeneration and mixed-tenure developments that address housing need. In the North East, we have successfully delivered 595 homes and completed eight partner deals in 2024 alone, building across 16 active sites.

Our expertise in delivering complex, multi-phased regeneration projects enables us to work closely with our partners to create thriving communities. With a strong track record in navigating funding challenges, enhancing design proposals, and developing targeted housing strategies, Vistry continues to lead the way in mixed-tenure development.