Planning Intelligence
The planning system asks developers to demonstrate that their scheme is acceptable. We build the tools and frameworks that help you understand your visual risk before that question is asked — and answer it with precision when it is.
V-Score
V-Score is a structured 35-point visual audit framework that evaluates a scheme's planning risk across the dimensions that most commonly drive refusal or appeal — townscape impact, heritage setting, cumulative effect, public realm quality and visual amenity. The output is a scored, documented report that gives developers, planning consultants and design teams a clear, evidence-based picture of where the visual case is strong and where it needs work — before the application is submitted.
Pre-application risk audit · Planning submission support · Appeal evidence · Design review preparation
Visit vscore.tech →Advent Visual
Advent Visual is Construct Media's dedicated brand for high-value heritage, conservation and luxury development work — where the stakes are highest and the standard of visual evidence must be correspondingly rigorous. Advent operates at the intersection of architectural precision, heritage sensitivity and planning intelligence, delivering verified views and visual risk management for schemes where scrutiny is intense and the cost of getting it wrong is significant.
Heritage impact assessment · Listed building settings · Conservation area appraisals · Luxury development
Visit advent.art →Corridor Coordination
Where multiple schemes are coming forward in the same area simultaneously, the visual evidence base fragments. Each developer commissions independent photography, surveys and camera positions to different standards — making cumulative impact impossible to assess with rigour. We establish unified visual baselines for regeneration corridors: one survey framework, one photographic standard, one set of agreed viewpoints — shared across all schemes, maintained annually, and updated as each application progresses.
Unified survey frameworks · Shared photographic baselines · Cumulative impact visualisation · Annual programme management
Visual Risk Management
Planning committees and design review panels increasingly scrutinise the quality and methodology of visual submissions. A technically correct AVR is necessary but not sufficient — the evidence must also be legible to non-specialist decision-makers. We work with developers and planning consultants to ensure that every visual submission is technically defensible, clearly presented and strategically positioned to support the planning case rather than merely illustrate it.
EIA visual chapters · Planning committee support · Design review preparation · Appeal evidence packages
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Three specialist practices. One director.
Construct Media
Architectural CGI & AVR
constructmedia.co.uk