Aegaea in Review – 2024
As another year draws to a close we’re reflecting on our achievements and successes.
In 2024 we’ve done 978 jobs – covering single units to 4000 residential dwellings, industrial, commercial, green energy production and battery storage. We have supported projects in 214 of the 380 LPA across the United Kingdom, from Cornwall to Carlisle, South Coast to the Scottish Isles and from Wales to the Wash. 2024 has been an amazing year for Aegaea.
The Landscape in 2024
2024 was an odd year ‘in the trenches’, political and planning uncertainty has meant it’s not always been smooth sailing. BNG, nutrient neutrality and updates (so very recent) to the NPPF have all contributed to a tumultuous market. Labour came to power promising big things and 1.5m homes to be built, unlocking ‘grey belt’ development – Perhaps we’re just starting to see those changes coming to the fore with developers, but the onus is still very much on our clients and us to ‘make things work’ rather than it being straight forward.
One thing that we’ve seen repeatedly is that getting the right advice at the right time is critical to success. Our customer feedback this year proves that Aegaea are on the right path with this – we’re not always the cheapest, but we know what we’re doing and how to do it. As importantly for our clients we’re committed to meeting deadlines – providing fast, accurate and timely advice to our clients smooths their issues and gives them a good platform to deliver their schemes.
Launching Aegaea Civils
We formally welcomed Aegaea Civils to Aegaea towers – in place to deliver drainage, highways and levels analysis to all our amazing clients. Led by James and Vikki, they’ve established themselves to major home builders and developers to take their projects from planning to detailed design and construction – this has truly made Aegaea an ‘end to end’ consultancy for all things water-related. To all our returning customers, it’s been wonderful to have you all coming back again and again – we don’t take it for granted and we’ll continue to strive to make your developments possible. to our new clients – welcome to the Aegaea team, we hope you’ll continue to come back to us and use our amazing consultants to help deliver your water, civils and environment projects.
Team Aegaea
In 2024 we’ve welcomed 2 new babies (more to come), 2 new dogs and kept our commitment to remote working to improve the work/life balance of our consultants. The team at Aegaea towers has grown and developed from strength to strength. While we’ve lost a few to new pastures, our team has grown in size and capability and it has been a pleasure to work alongside you every day.
Highlights of 2024
We’ve challenged flood zones and challenged policy through the application of the sequential test (nice that it’s changed again!).
- Surrey tops the leaderboard as the county where we have done the most work
- We’ve worked in nearly every local authority in the country this year, looking at you Stevenage Borough Council and South Yorkshire(!)
- We delivered 2 NSIP Energy Infrastructure projects, new roads, housing developments, commercial warehousing and multiple NFM solutions for Rivers Trusts
- We’ve built surface water models, tidal breach models and fluvial models, all with great success
- We’ve challenged flood zones and challenged policy through the application of the Sequential Test (nice that it’s changed again!)
- We’ve completed 978 projects, 870 FRAs, 400 drainage strategies, 168 models, 130 site visits, 51 PFR jobs, 40 nutrient neutrality statements, 31 sequential tests and 25 water neutrality statements
New Flood Screening Statement - Coming 2025
In 2025 we’re launching our new flood risk screening statement, where any practitioner, planner, architect or developer can get access to data, policy and insight from our consultants for a fraction of the cost of a standard FRA. Watch this space in early 2025 and you’ll see just what we’ve been working on. Our statement provides quick-time results on the local plan policies you need to know about with a focus to Flood / Water Management.
If you’re interested in knowing whether you need documents for planning with a focus to flood, have a need to understand your present and future risk of a site, along with insight into CDAs and climate change data then this product is really going to help you in your due diligence and screening of sites.
Looking Towards 2025
Our values at Aegaea are honesty, integrity, innovation, initiative and teamwork – skills and talents that we deploy every day in support of our clients. It takes special consultants to do this day in and day out and do it so well – we’re grateful to everyone who has worked with us over the year 2024 and can’t wait for 2025 to continue on our mission to be the first number you call when you have a water-related consultancy need.
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