What our clients say about us

“SWG3 is striving towards net zero and we want to bring our community along with us on this journey. With over 80 staff, 120 resident artists and businesses, and 250,000+ gig goers and audiences each year, it is important that we understand the full environmental impact of what we do, and travel is an important part of that process.

“Ansons Consulting brought their invaluable expertise and knowledge within the transport sector to help us to understand this. Through consultation, they established a picture of how people travel to SWG3, what influences their choices, and what actions SWG3 can take to encourage everyone to travel more sustainably. Helpfully, we now have a series of actionable recommendations –short-term solutions and some longer term – which we are working towards. We wouldn’t hesitate in recommending them.”
Alison Fullerton, Appeal Director / Strategic Impact Lead, SWG3

“We have worked with Ansons on a number of projects and knew they would have the right approach with our free bikes pilots. They understood our local needs and represented those, in parallel with national programme ambition of Scottish Government.

“The outcomes of the work have informed our on-going delivery of the free bikes projects and we are already implementing many of the recommendations this year.”
Shirley Paterson, Active Travel Development Manager, FEL

“The evaluation work carried out by Ansons has allowed us to gain invaluable feedback from the users and stakeholders involved in the GoSEStran project. SEStran will ensure we take these recommendations and the feedback on board into the next stages of the project, to allow us to continue to improve the MaaS app. We hope the report created by Ansons with their findings can help Transport Scotland begin to realise the potential benefits of a MaaS app in Scotland.”
Hattie James, Project Officer, SEStran

“Our work with Ansons and BetterPoints, rewarding people for travelling in an active way or using public transport, has been a great asset for us as an area. It has helped us to achieve our goals such as reducing traffic congestion, with the added benefit of supporting local businesses too.”
Koyejo Olugbile, Transport Planning Officer, Falkirk Council

“Transport is probably the biggest issue currently facing residents in Aberdeenshire especially those living in rural and isolated communities where access to everyday services is difficult and sometimes cost inhibitive for many. Ansons dug deep into what is currently happening in the shire and have identified workable solutions for our group to take forward. Ansons were professional, thorough and took time to get to know us and our landscape.”
Aileen Longino, Vice Chair of Aberdeenshire Local Action Group

“The shared use path has been an aspiration of our community for over 25 years and the project had stalled for a number of reasons.  We invited Ansons together with LUC to undertake a comprehensive feasibility study into this proposed path.

Where we had previously struggled to fully engage with stakeholders and landowners we found that employing Ansons expertise was invaluable.  The community engagement we got from their online survey far exceeded our expectations.  Acting as a third party they were able to discuss the proposed route with landowners in a measured way and have helped to build relationships within the wider community.

We are delighted by the way Ansons and LUC complimented each other to deliver such a comprehensive feasibility study and we are sure that this will be the document that will finally get the project underway. There is no doubt that we would work with Ansons in the future.”
Ellen Cattanach, Trustee, Strathfillan Community Development Trust

“We have worked with John Pinkard at Ansons from the onset, some 8 years ago, at our scheme at Edinburgh Park. Representing some 1M sq ft of commercial space, including 1800 homes, it was essential we considered the connectivity, transport infrastructure and transport solution within the masterplan.

This was more important than ever as we were submitting a major and detailed planning application, the largest planning application the City of Edinburgh Council had received in over a decade. We were therefore delighted with the outcome and a successful application, and there is no doubt the transport approach played a significant part and contribution with the application.

It was through John’s skills and considerable experience which helped form our Transport plan and general approach to transport which not only secured the application, but also continues to this day, when we discuss the opportunity to new office occupiers, and to support their own and often changing and challenging transport needs.

Transport is perhaps one of the most controversial and emotive items in large mixed use masterplans and therefore its essential you have the right team, experience and skill to help navigate you through this and with a solution that appeals and works for ultimately –  the occupants and visitors of the Park.”
Tony Hordon, Managing Director, Parabola