About Temple Group (Revised)

Overview	Company Structure	Our Mission Statement	Our Philosophy	Our Values
Our Services	Service Lines	Our Approach	Key Differentiators	Our Experience
Our Clients	Principal Markets	Contact Us

Overview Temple Group is an independent broad based environmental and planning consultancy. Temple provides a full range of environmental, planning and consulting services to a wide range of clients across the private and public sectors. Temple has grown rapidly year on year since our formation in 1997 and, in terms of turnover, is in the top 5% of: Environmental consultants (source: ENDS Market Survey 2004) Planning practices (source: Planning Magazine 2004)

This page gives more detail about Temple Group, the services we offer, the way we work and the clients we support. You can use the bookmarks above to navigate around this page.

Company Structure The rapid growth of Temple and expansion of services we offer led to the formation of Temple Group Ltd in November 2004. This restructuring has allowed us to focus our services provided for each discipline and present them to clients in a more meaningful manner. Temple Group Ltd consists of four business divisions: Temple Consulting Temple Environment Temple Planning Temple Regeneration You can use the links to see more details of our services and experience for each division. The company structure is set out in the Family Tree.
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Our Mission Statement Temple Group Ltd is committed to best practice and continuous improvement.  We aim to develop imaginative and pragmatic solutions that meet business objectives which are also consistent with the principles of sustainability. We focus on fresh ideas and creative thinking and aim to make a real difference by working with our clients. We look to cultivate lasting relationships with our clients and provide fully integrated professional services in the form of specialist advice, dedicated management or project team and/or strategic placements.
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Our Philosophy Temple abides by certain principals when conducting business or advising clients. In particular, we actively: Seek continuous improvement in all areas of our business; Promote sustainable solutions; Seek to ‘add value’ to our clients’ organisations; Build trust through commitment, loyalty and reliability; Maintain the highest professional standards consistent with best practice; Deliver practical and timely advice and effective outcomes to our clients; and Ensure community participation throughout the planning and design process.
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Our Values We promote honesty, transparency and integrity in all that we do. We look to engage in open communication with our clients and add value to our client's organisations. We recognise that ethical standards apply both to our professional services and the way we run our business. We will act with the highest integrity and due regard to the principles of sustainability. We are proud of our reputation for high standards and maintain this as central to our business. We recognise that the success of our business ultimately depends on the full commitment of motivated and loyal staff.
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Our Services Temple Group has developed an approach that offers our clients the flexibility to call on our skills and services as and when they need them. In addition to the traditional consultancy role, discussed in greater depth below, our specialists can be seconded to clients on a short, medium or long term basis to manage complex projects or are often called off for limited periods for specific tasks when required. This has proved highly cost effective for clients as they do not have to pay for time that they do not need. Temple have also developed mentoring strategies whereby our consultants provide their expertise over the medium term to guide and support in-house personnel on projects that may otherwise stretch resources unacceptably or where there is a specific skills shortage.
We have acted as lead consultant on a number of prestigious projects managing multi disciplinary teams comprising a number of consultants and practices to undertake complex projects on behalf of clients. We offer an extensive range of services across our four business divisions and allied services. The services we provide are shown under their relevant division below. Again you can use the links to see more detail for each service. Return to top of page
Temple Service Lines Temple offers a wide range of services across our four business divisions. In some cases, the service we supply to clients will be highly specific whilst in other cases a combination of services may be required.  One way in which our services can be represented is as a jigsaw which best demonstrates the building blocks that make up our service offering.

Divisions
Temple Group is formed of four business divisions. This corporate and management structure allows us to focus our services to the disciplines that our clients operate in.
Consulting Services	Environment Services
Temple Consulting provides a range of support skills to the other divisions e.g., Consultation, Community Planning, Communications and public relations, and Transport and Work Act support services. It also includes new work areas not previously promoted by Temple e.g., housing services, neighbourhood management and management and advisory services, principally for large development projects.	Environmental services still make up the core Temple Group which makes Temple Environment of strategic importance within the group. Temple Environment consists of a highly experienced core team of specialists with a wide range of professional expertise in both the public and private sector. We also have a large complement of Associates and can call on further resources through our established consultancy network.
Planning Services	Regeneration Services
Temple Planning includes Town and Country Planners, Transport Planners, as well as specialists in environment, sustainability and consultation. This means we can offer an extensive range of integrated planning and environmental services to a broad range of business sectors.	Temple regeneration services are best summarised under four main headings – general, economic and business development, land, property, planning and transport and neighbourhoods and communities. A fuller description of these services is provided below.

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Our Approach At Temple, we credit our continued expansion to the excellent clients relationships we have developed. We have recently been awarded a 'Gold Star', the highest standard achievable,  for customer satisfaction by QMS - BenchmarQ. We focus on developing innovative and value added services by partnering or working closely with our clients. This has led to our reputation as a leader in our respective fields, whilst effective project management and quality procedures, we are ISO 9001 and ISO 14001acredited, means we deliver to quality, time and budget. We actively promote the partnering arrangements with our clients which helps achieve a good working relationship and in particular: A shared vision, strategy, policy and values; An integrated solution by the effective combination of in-house knowledge with specialist technical expertise; Continuity and consistency through hands-on involvement throughout the process; and Quality management systems and procedures compliant with the clients’ own systems and procedures, as appropriate. Our achievements are reflected in the high percentage of repeat business we get from existing clients as well as the amount of new business secured through personal recommendation.
Client Services Matrix
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Key Differentiators Our ability to forge strong working links with clients through integrated working relationships Our close and established working relationships with local authorities and statutory agency representatives Our extensive track record in expert witness testimony Our ability to integrate environment, planning and related disciplines with business and project management Our business model - i.e. a core team consisting of staff and associates and our established network of consultants. This ensures we can: Be more responsive, flexible and provide a cost effective service Create teams tailored to suit client requirements Provide a range of comprehensive skills set that may be required for any particular assignment Provide highly experienced personnel of national and international recognition
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Our Experience Senior personnel at Temple do not only have a management responsibility but are heavily engaged in the projects. Our business model ensures that teh management responsibilities are less onerous than they otherwise would be in a large organisation. This allows the clients to benefit from the advice of senior professionals who have extensive experience and a wide range of skills. Our Associates are also part of our core team and we have access to further resources through our long established consultancy network. Many of these professionals are of national and international acclaim. This ‘additional’ resource allows us to be flexible in the way we resource projects and means we can tailor the resources to the specific needs of the client. Through our experience of major infrastructure projects we have developed a sound understanding of the design process and associated management issues including interface management, design freeze and value engineering techniques. We take a pro-active approach to capturing environmental and associated risks with any scheme/planning approvals. This approach ensures corresponding costs and programmes are realistic and that associated risks are fully acknowledged and managed out of the process through time. We give details of the services we have provided to clients and our experience gained in our projects libraries. You can have a look at specific projects and see how we benefited you clients by using the links. Consulting Project Library Planning Project Library Environment Project Library Regeneration Project Library
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Our Clients Temple was initially formed in response to the need for environmental expertise on major transport infrastructure projects.  Our client base has expanded since and now covers most of the public and private sector.   Our principal clients sectors are: Central Government Civil Engineering Construction Engineering Local government Manufacturing Property Transport Though our network we can also deliver experience in: Agriculture Energy Mining & quarrying NGO Oil & chemicals Retail & commerce Waste management Water Temple Group has built successful relationships with a number of key clients since our formation. Our key clients and links to their website can be seen on our Clients page.
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Contact Us If you require further details or would like some general advice please contact Mark Southwood on 01825 790964 or mark.southwood@templegroup.co.uk.
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