Place Services is the leading public sector provider of environmental assessment, planning, design and management services. We trace our roots back to 1968 and became a local authority traded service in 2014. From our local authority beginnings, we have developed a unique specialism in this sector. Our role is to support public sector organisations enabling them to deliver sustainable development.

Since 2003, Pegasus Group has grown to be a leading development consultancy in the UK.

Our services span the entire project process from planning through to design and delivery, ensuring we achieve optimal results. We have a large, skilled and experienced workforce operating from offices throughout the UK and Ireland. Our approach combines local and national knowledge of the property and development industry providing our clients with an unrivalled understanding of what is required to make their schemes successful.

Our integrated teams combine knowledge and expertise from a wide variety of sectors. We have worked on some of the UK’s highest profile projects, developing excellent relationships with our clients and winning awards in the process.

LUC is an award-winning environmental consultancy providing planning, impact assessment, landscape design, ecology and geospatial services to a wide range of public and private sector clients.

With a track record spanning over 55 years and a team of more than 200 skilled professionals, we are united by a determination to achieve sustainable development on behalf of our clients. With the current climate emergency in mind, we ensure that all our work promotes climate change mitigation and resilience.

We became a fully employee-owned business in January 2020, sharing profits on an equal basis and involving everyone in key decisions. This helps secure our continued independence as well as aligning our governance structure with our culture and values.

We pride ourselves on being at the forefront of innovative thinking, successfully resolving even the most complex of issues. We care about the legacy we leave and hope to make a real difference through the work we do.
Our Values

Conscience – We will act and advise with authenticity and moral compass, playing our part in addressing global challenges and local priorities.
Innovation – We will generate new ideas, new methods, and new solutions to deliver the best outcomes for clients and society as a whole.
Collaboration – We will build and maintain strong relationships with clients, colleagues, and peers, listening and learning at all times.
Excellence – We will maintain the highest standards in our work, supported by continuous employee learning and development.
People-centred – We will strive for a diverse, inclusive, and participative culture where everyone at every level contributes to the wider business.

H+R regularly provide support to fellow industry professionals such as architects, structural engineers, quantity surveyors and project managers.

Our specialist building material condition and performance investigations better informs design teams before and during projects. In addition, we provide risk management and value engineered solutions together with specialist support to loss adjusters and insurers with an emphasis on fire and flood.

H+R have long-standing experience in providing specialist building material condition investigations in historic and contemporary structures. We continue to innovate and pride ourselves on working at the ‘sharp end’. Our minimally invasive and non-destructive surveying techniques are especially suitable for historic buildings or those under occupation.

Our staff members include professionally qualified individuals from a range of disciplines including architecture, surveying, pathology, wood science, chemistry, environmental science and arboriculture. Their abilities combined with our technical resources allow us to deploy an in-depth level of support performing to programme and budget.

We are a trusted, expert guide to Net Zero, bringing purpose led, vital expertise from the climate change frontline. We have been pioneering decarbonisation for more than 20 years for businesses, governments and organisations around the world.

We draw on the experience of over 300 experts internationally, accelerating progress and providing solutions to this existential crisis. We have supported over 3,000 organisations in 50 countries with their climate action planning, collaborating with 150+ partners in setting science-based targets, and supporting cities across 5 continents on the journey to Net Zero.

We provide solutions to the climate crisis. We support organisations globally as they accelerate towards Net Zero. From target setting, Net Zero pathways, assurance and footprinting, to policy advice, strategy setting and programme delivery, we seek smarter ways to turn intent into impact, where sustainability and economic realities go hand in hand.

The Archaeology Service maintains the Historic Environment Record, more commonly referred to as the HER, for Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City, Angus and Moray Councils. (These were formerly known as the Sites and Monuments Record (SMR)).

Access the Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City, Angus or Moray online summary HER databases

The full versions of the databases are held in the office by the Service and contain information on over 40,000 sites of archaeological and historical interest ranging from Mesolithic flints to airfields of World War II. The information consists of a computerised database linked to a GIS (Geographical Information System) with further physical records of maps, photographs, articles and reports.

The databases are updated regularly with all new discoveries.

You can search the online summary versions of the Aberdeenshire HER, Aberdeen City HER, Angus HER and the Moray HER databases to find out about a wide variety of sites, from well-known and regularly visited ones to less obvious landscape features such as cropmarks.