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A multidisciplinary management consultancy experienced in the design, development, implementation and leadership of complex road, rail, logistics, and land projects for public and private sector clients.

Iain Taylor

Ian Brooker

Chris Douglas

Morag Robertson

Nearly 100 years of professional experience between us of management experience, across road, rail, land and logistics.

Meet the team
Our key work areas include:

Programme and project management

Collaboration and multi-partner project coordination

Sustainable freight transport solutions

Logistics strategy, policy, economics, and demand forecasting

Stakeholder engagement

City logistics – planning and delivering efficient last mile solutions

Regeneration and property development

Funding/finance bid support

HMT ‘5 cases’ business plans and property appraisals

Innovation project development and management

Public funding aligned to government programmes (Towns Fund, Levelling Up, Freeport, Investment Zones, Enterprise Zones etc)

Infrastructure Investment and case making

Decarbonisation strategies and action plans

Intermodal projects including rail freight, terminals, and inland waterways

Polaris works collaboratively with partners to deliver the client’s requirements, including transport and property economics, legal and contract support and communications.

Our partners include: AMION Consulting, Hill Dickinson, Latitude Studios, Jacobs, Connected Places Catapult and many others.

In recent years, the Polaris Team have provided project and programme management expertise to key clients, in the UK and overseas, including:

Our roles in supporting clients on these projects and programmes – and our combined expertise – covers the full range of coordination and management tasks:

Project and programme inception

Setting up PMO and its support functions

Technical task programming, tracking and reporting

Finance tracking and reporting, internal and to funder

Resource planning

Partner consensus building

Contractor management

Quality assurance

Marketing and promotion

Business planning

Project close-out and legacy

Policy development

Land masterplanning

Development Consent Order and Planning Applications

Our offer is simple – we can help our clients set-up, run, report and deliver the best possible projects, optimising funding from partners and making best use of own committed budgets.