Visitor Attraction Consultants Planning Solutions Consulting brings deep expertise to visitor attraction and visitor centre projects. Our portfolio spans historic properties, farm parks, museums, heritage centres, castles, steam railways, science discovery centres,...
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COVID-19 – visitor attractions reset and recover with short, medium and long-term strategic planning
We are offering a free 30-minute contigency planning survegy with visitor attraction operators and other tourism business owners. This could be a one-on-one session or you can bring together a number your colleagues for a team session. The sessions would be led by...
Visitor centre business plan. What’s involved?
Visitor centre business plan Business plans are an invaluable tool for maximising the long-term financial sustainability of visitor centres and other built facilities in leisure destinations. We use a market-led approach to identify and assess a range of options,...
Holiday Lets and Tourist Accommodation Planning Consultant | PSC
Tourist Accommodation — Market Assessments, Feasibility Studies and Business Planning Whether you're exploring a change of use to create a holiday let, developing a lodge site, or introducing a glamping offering, we can help you conduct a detailed assessment to test...
Mountain biking feasibility consultants
Mountain biking feasibility consultants Planning Solutions Consulting has extensive experience working across the mountain biking and wider cycling and tourism sectors, specialising in feasibility studies and business planning that support the development of cycling...
Car Parking Consultants for Visitor Attractions, Heritage, Countryside & Tourism Sites
Car park management for tourism, heritage and recreation sites The sense of arrival at a visitor site or destination is a critical element of the visitor journey. For most visitors, the car park is the first physical touchpoint they encounter, and first impressions...
Ireland Tourism Consultants
Ireland Tourism Consultants About Planning Solutions Consulting Planning Solutions Consulting is a specialist consultancy with over 25 years of experience helping organisations develop, enhance, and sustain successful tourism operations.We work across the full breadth...
Visitor gateway feasibility study
Planning Solutions Consulting has worked with a range of clients from the Northumberland National Park Authority through to Forestry England, Kent County Council, Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Somerset County Council, Natural Resources Wales, the Elan Valley Trust,...
Tourism Needs and Development Impact Assessment Consultant
Tourism Needs and Development Impact Assessment Consultant Tourism development projects, whether establishing a new tourism business or enhancing or altering an existing one, may require, as part of the planning application, a supporting Tourism Needs and Development...
Former industrial sites and visitor attractions
Former industrial sites and visitor attractions The UK is a world leader when it comes to breathing new life into former industrial land and buildings. These sites can come with their own challenges, contaminated land being the obvious one, through to listed buildings...
Walled Garden Projects | Feasibility Studies & Business Plans | PSC
Walled gardens and historic garden projects: Feasibility studies and business planning Restoring or reopening a walled or historic garden is one of the most rewarding and financially demanding types of heritage project. The restoration phase is complex, and even...
Forestry Tourism Consultants | Forest Recreation and Tourism Projects | PSC
If you need assistance with a tourism, visitor experience or recreation project please don’t hesitate to call or email Richard Linington on 07866 742628 or richard@pslplan.co.ukForestry Tourism Consultants – Forest Recreation & Visitor Experience Planning We have...
Country Park Masterplans
Country park masterplans PSC has extensive experience delivering country park masterplanning, strategic development planning, commercial income generation planning and business planning projects for a diverse range of clients, including Hampshire County Council, Neath...
Retail parks increasing dwelltime and the level of visits
Increasing Dwell Time and Visit Frequency at Retail Parks The retail industry has undergone profound change over the past decade. The widely reported decline of the high street, the growth of online shopping and the lasting impact of COVID-19 and the current economic...
Kent Tourism Consultants | PSC
Tourism Consultants Kent Tourism, leisure and recreation If you need assistance with a tourism, recreation, cultural or heritage project across Kent (or further afield), please don't hesitate to call or email Richard Linington on 07866 742628 or richard@pslplan.co.uk....
Land Management Plans Scotland | Land Reform Act 2025 | PSC
Land Management Plans: Preparing for the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025 Land Management Plans (LMPs), reviewed every five years, will become the principal community engagement obligation for owners of large landholdings of over 1,000 hectares under the Land Reform...
Organisational Sustainability National Lottery Heritage Fund
Organisational Sustainability National Lottery Heritage Fund Under the Heritage Fund’s 10-year strategy, Heritage 2033, there are four core investment principles which will shape their grant decisions. These are: Saving heritage Protecting the environment Inclusion,...
Green space consultants
Green space consultants Planning Solutions Consulting has worked with a range of clients on greenspace consultancy projects, including Hampshire County Council, Forestry England, Broadland District Council, Northumberland National Park Authority, Natural England, the...
Countryside management consultants
Countryside Management Consultants Planning Solutions Consulting brings together strategic expertise and real operational experience to deliver countryside management projects that work in practice, not just on paper. We work with a diverse range of clients, from...
National Lottery Heritage Fund Consultant
National Lottery Heritage Fund Consultant Planning Solutions Consulting has worked on a number of National Lottery Heritage Fund (and the former Heritage Lottery Fund). Our work usually focuses on preparing business plans and business resilience plans, conducting...
Generating income at museums
Income generation at museums In response to funding cuts, museums are increasingly under pressure to generate additional earned income. Generating income at museums – admission sales (for museums which charge an admission tariff) will always be a key income stream;...
Literary Tourism Consultant UK | Feasibility Studies & Business Plans | PSC
Literary Tourism Consultants What Is Literary Tourism? Literary tourism is travel motivated wholly or partly by a connection to a writer, a book, a poem, or a fictional setting. It covers visits to writers' homes and birthplaces, literary museums and visitor centres,...
Visitor attraction marketing projects
Visitor attraction marketing PSC offers a bespoke visitor attraction marketing service which is complemented by our sister company’s experience of managing a variety of visitor attractions – CONKERS, the Cotswold Country Park and Beach and Kent Life Heritage Farm -...
Working in partnership
Working in Partnership Planning Solutions Consulting is very open to working in partnership with other companies to deliver successful projects. We work across the tourism, recreation and heritage sectors and our work focuses on carrying out feasibility studies,...
Join Us: Heritage Business Planning Consultants – Associate Roles
Join Us: Heritage Business Planning Consultants – Associate Roles At Planning Solutions Consulting Limited, we are expanding our network of Heritage Business Planning Associates. We work with a range of clients on exciting and challenging projects centred on built...
Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage – business planning
Business Planning Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage The Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced a new £1.57m Culture Recovery Fund to help secure the future of our culture and heritage sectors which have been impacted on by COVID-19. The Fund has been...
Leisure consultants
Leisure consultants As a leisure consultancy, Planning Solutions Consulting has delivered a range of projects across the UK. Our work focuses on: Carrying out market and drivetime catchment assessments Identifying future development scenarios and carrying out option...
Visitor centre architects
Visitor centre architects Are you planning to develop a new visitor centre — perhaps as a gateway hub to a wider site — or looking to enhance an existing visitor centre, whether by expanding the café, redesigning the admissions or welcome experience or reimagining...
Scotland tourism consultants
Scotland Tourism Consultants Planning Solutions Consulting Limited is a specialist consultancy with over 25 years of experience working across the tourism, heritage, community, environmental, and recreation sectors. Our work is built around six core areas of...
Adventure Tourism Consultants | Planning Solutions Consulting
If you have any questions or would like to discuss our work within the activity and adventure tourism sectors please don’t hesitate to call Richard Linington on 07866 742628 or email richard@pslplan.co.ukAdventure Tourism Consultants: Strategy, Business Planning &...
Supporting the revitalisation of Britain’s Town Centres and High Streets
Town Deal Business Case Consultants There continues to be a renewed policy and programme impetus to support town centres thrive, becoming vibrant hubs where people live, shop, use services and spend their leisure time. Programmes such as the Future High Streets Fund...
Self catering cottage feasibility study
Self-catering cottage feasibility study: A feasibility study would typically include the following components: Site Analysis: A thorough assessment of the existing property or site, evaluating its suitability for conversion into self-catering accommodation or the...
Glamping consultants
Glamping consultants Planning Solutions Consulting Limited is an independent consultancy with over 20 years of experience advising clients across the tourist accommodation sector. Alongside a broad range of accommodation projects, we have worked on a number glamping...
Country park market research
Country park market research Who we are and what we do – much more than market researchPlanning Solutions Consulting carries out market research across a range of country parks and other visitor sites. By carrying out a programme of market research we can help answer...
Agritourism Consultant UK | Rural & Farm Diversification & Business Planning | PSC
Agritourism Consultant As farm and rural diversification consultants, Planning Solutions Consulting works with landowners, land agents and estates to identify how tourism, recreation and leisure-led initiatives can secure a long-term, sustainable income from underused...
Visitor attraction marketing consultants
Visitor attraction marketing consultants As visitor attraction marketing consultants we offer ongoing support in developing marketing action plans for visitor attractions. We also evaluating performance to ensure that strategies evolve in line with changes in the...
Museum income generation
Museum Income Development Planning How can we help? If you manage a museum or heritage centre or archive and are seeking ways to identify and evaluate future opportunities, please feel free to call Richard Linington 07866 742628 or email...
Visitor attraction catering consultants
Visitor attraction catering consultants For over 25 years we have been providing a catering advisory service to a range of clients. Our focus is on catering operations which are developed within visitor attractions and the visitor experience sectors, these include:...
Recreation consultants
Outdoor recreation consultants Working as parks and recreation consultants, Planning Solutions Consulting has delivered a range of outdoor recreation projects across the UK. Our work focusses on: Carrying out market assessments Customer research Preparing income...
Country Park Tourist Accommodation Feasibility Study
Country Park Tourist Accommodation Feasibility Study Client: Hampshire County Council We evaluated the potential for new tourist accommodation across four of the county's country parks: Queen Elizabeth Country Park, Lepe Country Park, River Hamble Country Park and...
Drivetime maps and demographic analysis
Drivetime mapping and demographic analysis Understanding the demographic profile and catchment areas Drivetime maps and demographic analysis - often on projects understanding the residential marketplace, the density, profile and behaviour trends of people living...
Recreation Management Plans
Recreation Management Plans Managing a country park, nature reserve, woodland, coastal path, or private estate brings its own particular challenges. A Recreation Management Plan (or more commonly nowadays referred to as a Visitor Management Plan) is one of the most...
Destination Management Planning and COVID-19: A Twin Track Approach for Recovery and Strategic Planning
We are offering a free 30-minute Contingency Planning Surgery with Destination Management Organisations and other tourism businesses. This could be one-on-one session or you can bring together a number your colleagues for a team session. The sessions would be led...
Historic House Consultants
Historic House Consultants Planning Solutions Consulting has worked on a wide range of projects at historic houses. We carry out market assessments, operational reviews and feasibility studies alongside preparing visitor management plans and revenue generation...
Heritage Consultancy Services | Business Planning
Heritage consultancy servicesWe don't just advise. We've done it ourselves. As heritage consultants, we support heritage organisations in making the most effective use of their resources in an increasingly competitive climate. Heritage sites face real pressure: cuts...
Catering consultant country parks
Country park catering consultants For over 25 years we have been providing a catering advisory service to a range of clients. Our focus is on catering operations which are developed within country parks and visitor attractions. Well managed catering can be a key...
Heritage Masterplanning Consultancy | Visitor Experience & Site Development
Heritage masterplanning consultancy A vision for the future of your site — grounded in what's actually deliverable Part of our wider heritage consultancy services, a heritage masterplan is different from a business plan. It's the long-term spatial and strategic...
Leisure property consultants
Leisure property consultants Planning Solutions Consulting Limited has been working in the leisure and tourism sectors for over 20 years, alongside our business planning work, we also provide leisure property consultancy services. We can trace our roots back to the...
Wales Tourism and Heritage Consultancy Projects
07866 742 628 or richard@pslplan.co.ukWales Tourism and Heritage Consultancy Projects Planning Solutions Consulting has been providing support and expertise to a range of organisations across Wales to improve and develop the visitor experience and tourism product. We...
Visioning workshop for your project and organisation
Ideal for Key topic areas Build consensus to reach an agreed vision for your project and organisation Contact If you would like to find out more about our visitor experience transformational workshops please call Kevin Brown on 07880 712969 or email...
Visitor attraction income generation workshops
Visitor attraction income generation workshops Ideal for Frontline Managers, Directors and Trustees seeking ways to improve the income generation and financial resilience of the visitor attraction site which they manage. Key topic areas We will explore the current...
Governance Model Consultants | Visitor Attractions, Heritage & Tourism | PSC
Governance and Delivery Consultants Governance and delivery Choosing the right governance model is one of the most consequential decisions a project will face. If the wrong decision is made, even a well-funded, well-designed visitor attraction, heritage site or...
Tourism economic impact assessments
Measuring the economic impact of investment and fundingTourism economic impact assessment consultant Working as tourism economic impact consultants, we carry out impact assessments, which often form an important consideration in terms of funding and planning...
Event planning and feasibility studies
Event feasibility studies We work with clients to assess the opportunities for developing event programmes and strategies, we carry out feasibility studies for events and we also help clients to enhance existing event programmes. It is important to recognise that...
Are you considering introducing a retail offer or reviewing your retail offer?
Visitor attraction retail consultancy Providing a retail consultancy service Planning Solutions Consulting has a wide variety of experience within the visitor experience industry, working on a range of projects at: Visitor centres and attractions Museums Country parks...
Sustainable Tourism Consultants UK | PSC
Sustainable Tourism Consultants Climate and biodiversity emergencies and sustainable tourism UK domestic tourism delivers real, measurable benefits. It helps diversify rural economies, supports health and wellbeing, and drives wider regeneration in areas that need it...
Museum Catering Consultants
Museum Catering Consultants For over 25 years, we have been acting as catering consultants providing a catering advisory service to a range of clients. Our focus is on catering operations which are developed within visitor attractions, including museums and heritage...
Tees Valley Tourism Consultants
If you need assistance with a tourism, recreation, cultural or heritage project across the Tees Valley (or further afield) please don’t hesitate to call or email Richard Linington on 07866 742628 or richard@pslplan.co.ukTees Valley Tourism Consultants Planning...
Sussex Tourism Consultants
If you need assistance with a tourism, visitor experience or heritage project in Sussex (or further afield) please don’t hesitate to call or email Richard Linington on 07866 742628 or richard@pslplan.co.ukSussex Tourism Consultants Planning Solutions Consulting has...















































