Calibro are responsive, commercial and always ready to help. They have formulated complex arguments and presented them in a digestible fashion that has ultimately helped to elicit positive consultation responses from the Authority
Designing it right, from the outset.
Calibro is a built environment consultancy working across transport planning, flood risk and hydrology, and infrastructure and drainage. Four offices. One connected team.
Before the brief is agreed, there is a practice: stepping back to see what a place is actually trying to become, and who it needs to serve. That wider view is what unlocks the detail of the opportunity, the value that a narrower starting position would miss. It is what changes what gets designed, and ultimately what gets built.
A place designed around the people who will live, move and work in it is one that performs commercially. It attracts interest earlier, delivers returns faster, and holds its value. The reputation it builds carries forward into the next project, and the one after that. That is what ‘right’ means in practice. And it pays.
Transport Planning
Connecting people, places and opportunities. We plan movement as something that belongs to the place it serves, understanding how transport shapes identity and access, not just flow.
Flood Risk & Hydrology
Creating water-positive places for resilient communities. We think about water from the site boundary outwards, with the long-term performance of the place in mind.
Infrastructure & Drainage
Turning projects into impact by applying solid engineering principles. Sound infrastructure is the foundation that holds every other ambition together.
Where we work
We work across residential, commercial, health, education, infrastructure, renewables, retail and leisure, and wherever work takes us beyond that list. Every project builds on an established body of knowledge: how to use the planning system to a client’s advantage, what creates places that hold their value, and where early decisions protect against risk and leave a legacy that matters beyond completion.
Those learnings cross every sector boundary. What we take from a residential scheme shapes how we approach a commercial one. What we learn in one planning authority informs how we navigate the next. That accumulated intelligence is what you’re drawing on, whatever the brief.
The sector shifts. The thinking doesn’t.
Residential
We’re often involved early in projects, supporting site-finding activities, and moving on to the masterplan process. Schemes range from a few dwellings with simple access and layout considerations, through to large, mixed use schemes requiring modelling of the wider network and strategic infrastructure improvements.
Renewables
We support development for wind, solar and energy-from-waste projects throughout the UK. This includes large scale wind farms to expansive solar schemes in areas of risk of flooding. As a corporate IEMA partner, we understand the specific legal requirements of environmental impact assessment.
Commercial & Industrial
Whether it’s transport planning or highway design, flood risk or drainage strategies, we understand the nuances of industrial and commercial development. We can take a lead role in optimising the masterplan process, support planning with robust evidence, and provide accurate, cost-effective construction designs.
Retail
We’re a trusted partner for a number of regional and national developers, bringing extensive knowledge of commercial development. We enable a scheme to be commercially optimised, understanding the importance of maximising passing trade; while also minimising the severity of associated traffic effects.
Health & Wellbeing
Our team of experts has extensive experience of advising on all types of health and wellbeing facilities. We provide transport planning, highway, flood risk and drainage input across a range of developments, including primary and secondary schools, GP surgeries, pharmacies and dental practices.
Leisure
Every leisure development is different – whether it’s a new campsite, gym or stadium. The journey through the planning system is just the start. We ensure that fundamental engineering principles are ingrained in our solutions, to expedite the design and approval stages, and get contractors on site sooner.
One way of working. Four offices.
Bristol · Southampton · Leeds · Manchester
The practice started in Bristol with a clear belief: that places benefit from being designed right from the outset, whatever the sector, whatever the scale. Southampton, Leeds and Manchester did not open for growth’s sake. They are that belief extending its reach, bringing the same rigour and integrated thinking to more projects in more places, influencing a better future for more people, and delivering more value for more clients.
Wherever your project sits, you’re drawing on the full practice, and the people who chose to build it. Those drawn to the mission and values tend to be the ones who stay.
The practice is growing, and the door is open to people who think this way.
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If you want a team that meets the brief and moves on, we are probably not the right fit. If you want a practice that thinks ahead of the brief, that will bring you a more considered answer than the one you asked for because the evidence pointed somewhere more useful, talk to us.
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