Every year Planning Magazine conducts its Annual Consultancy Survey across the sector, looking at categories including the fastest growers, the largest recruiters of students and the firms with the most chartered town planners and planning surveyors.

David Jackson, Head of Planning and Savills Earth at Savills, comments: "This is another great result for our business, confirming our leading position in the Planning consultancy market by a margin. The fact that we have shown such consistency for so long now is a testament to our people and the great results that keep our clients coming back time and time again.

“The survey also contains some interesting additional analysis, particularly in relation to market sectors. The top three sectors identified are: infrastructure, housing (greenfield and brownfield) and commercial / industrial. This plays to Savills strengths due to our ability to work alongside colleagues from other divisions in these key sector areas.”