Our clients
Clients are the focus of our business and we care what they think about us and our work. We know that our future depends on our reputation. Clients trust us for our integrity, professionalism and experience, and the way we communicate with them. We work for international agencies, national governments, regulatory agencies, developers, local authorities, private individuals and transport operators.
Who do we work for?
We work for a whole range of clients: public and private, small and large, in the UK, Ireland and overseas.
Client feedback
Omagh District Council
“On behalf of Omagh District Council, I am pleased to commend the work of Colin Buchanan. The Belfast team led by Paul McTernan and Richard Griffin worked with the Council to co-ordinate a comprehensive spatial regeneration strategy-Omagh: Towards a City Vision. This work involved extensive consultation will all relevant statutory agencies including the Department for Social Development, The Department for Regional Development, The Department of the Environment, Planning Service, as well as voluntary / community representatives and the private sector. Omagh: Towards a City Vision 2025 proposes an imaginative land use strategy based on Platforms for Change which we hope will lead to Omagh becoming a city by 2025. The team were supportive and enthusiastic and fulfilled the commission with enthusiasm”.
Port of Waterford
“CB provide the POWC with a professional, prompt and diverse range of planning related services as and when the situation dictates. The broad scope of projects undertaken by CB’s planning and development team have consistently protected and enhanced our corporate requirements with a strong focus upon advocating and advancing the critical role Port facilities play in the national economy.”
West Belfast & Greater Shankill Enterprise Council
“The Enterprise Council has found in its working relationship with Colin Buchanan a guiding hand to funnel the individual ambitions and desires of a disparate group of local Entrepreneurs into a truly transformational plan that can economically regenerate the most disadvantaged area in these islands. The process that led to this plan has allowed our members understanding of strategic and spatial planning to grow, and given their sector an authoritative voice in the ongoing regeneration debate.
CB’s involvement from the inception of the plan made sure that our embryonic ideas were anchored within sound planning and development practices and clearly and logically related to, and when necessary challenged, regional and city wide strategies.
Key to this process was Buchanan’s willingness as a company, not to be confined by the initial brief, to allow their staff to dedicate themselves to the mission they had undertaken and to commit the resources necessary to produce a plan worthy of the work expended on it.”
An Taisce (Robinstown Masterplan)
“The Draft LAP contains features which if delivered upon, could have a defining impact on the future shape of local area planning in Ireland”