Founded by Lin Cousins and Kathleen Dunmore in 1996, Three Dragons brings together specialist skills in town planning, economics and policy development.Three Dragons has an established track record in research and policy-making across all aspects of new housing provision and its role in the planning and development process.
We work at the local, regional and national levels, for public, private and voluntary sector clients. We have particular expertise in the development of economic models and have developed a nationally used financial viability model (the Three Dragons toolkit) and a model for forecasting demand for specialist older persons housing (the Retirement Housing Group model).
Three Dragons, working with the South West RTPI, jointly hosted a seminar on Custom & Self-build Housing for planning and housing professionals. The seminar focussed on how local authorities and their partners can develop appropriate policies and ensure serviced plots are provided for custom &......
The new Draft London Plan was published in November 2017. Three Dragons has prepared 5 reports which form part of the evidence base and have been published alongside. These are London Plan Viability Study; Older Persons Housing Benchmarks; Lessons from Higher Density Development; Accessible Design......