The acquisition of Hub Transport Planning brings specialist transport expertise into our multidisciplinary offer, enabling both teams to support clients earlier in the process and align transport strategy with planning, engineering and design from the outset.
Hub Transport Planning brings 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, including the design of schemes that deliver lasting benefits for surrounding communities. Current clients include Richborough, Barratt West Midlands, Persimmons Home, Severn Trent Water, Bellway Homes and Caddick.
We are strengthening our 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. By bringing Hub into the business, both teams are better equipped to support clients earlier in the process, aligning transport strategy with planning, engineering and design to help projects progress with confidence.
Our transport planning team is now made up of 40 professionals across the UK. Hub, which has a headcount of 17, will be based in the Birmingham office and supports our wider growth strategy. We have identified infrastructure and strategic land as key areas for further expansion, building on the integration of Jubb’s infrastructure, engineering and transport specialists when we acquired that business in 2024.
We work across public and private sectors, supporting projects from early masterplanning and feasibility through to delivery. Its portfolio spans housing, mixed-use development, major infrastructure and transport assets, including stations, interchanges and highway improvement schemes, for clients such as local authorities, Highways England and Transport for London.
With a turnover at around £170 million, the deal reflects continued investment in specialist skills that can be embedded earlier in projects. Bringing Hub into the business creates greater capacity for transport planning to sit alongside planning, engineering, environment and design from the outset, helping clients move through the planning process with greater confidence.
“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.”
Andy Cleevely, Partner at Ridge
“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.”
James Parker, Director at Hub Transport Planning
