Room 106

Ep201: The profits, turnover and margins of the UK's biggest planning consultancies

Room 106

Show Notes

In this Deep Dive edition, we’ll be discussing Planning’s exclusive and first-ever examination of the profits, turnover and margins of the UK’s biggest planning consultancies, based on their financial accounts filed with Companies House. We talk about:

The highest-earning firms; The most profitable consultancies and those with the biggest losses; Those with the highest and lowest operating profit margins; And we’ll be getting thoughts from consultants who feature in the survey on all of these matters.

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