Built environment consultancy Ridge and Partners has acquired Hub Transport Planning for an undisclosed price.
Hub Transport Planning has nearly two decades of experience in transport assessment, strategy and design. The team advises on complex transportation solutions – from managing traffic impacts by designing schemes that enhance network capacity and reduce congestion, through to addressing connectivity by active travel and sustainable transport modes.
The acquisition strengthens Ridge’s ability to support new towns and other strategic growth sites, where transport decisions are central to whether land comes forward and how quickly schemes move through planning.
The 17-strong Hub team will be based in Ridge’s Birmingham office and support the firm’s wider growth strategy.
Andy Cleevely, partner at Ridge, said: “We identified Hub because of its depth in transport strategy, its practical understanding of planning risk and its collaborative way of working. Transport increasingly plays a defining role in whether sites come forward and can be delivered to cost, particularly on large scale and long‑term proposals and strategic growth locations. Bringing Hub into Ridge strengthens our ability to help clients unlock land, shape development and deliver schemes that stand up to scrutiny.”
James Parker, director at Hub Transport Planning, added: “Joining Ridge is the right move at the right time. Transport planning is becoming ever more central to how development gets shaped and delivered. Being part of a business with Ridge’s multidisciplinary reach means we can offer clients so much more than transport planning in isolation. We’re bringing our expertise into an environment where it can have far greater impact, and I’m excited about what that means for our people, our clients and the projects we’ll be part of.”
