Three Dragons - Consultancy offering advice on affordable and sustainable housing and housing policy
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 development 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

Our main areas of interest are:

  • Working with the planning system to deliver affordable housing
  • Analysing the housing market and demographic change
  • Undertaking Affordable Housing Viability Assessments
  • CIL and infrastructure assessment studies
  • Scheme delivery and negotiation
  • Rural housing issues
  • Older persons housing issues
  • Assessment of housing and land supply
  • Training and conferences on housing delivery and policy issues
News & Events

Working together with Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research (CCHPR), Three Dragons has recently completed a guide to putting together the evidence base to support the affordable housing target in a Core Strategy.   The guide was prepared for the South East England Partnership Board and can be accessed on their website using the hyperlink below.

http://www.se-partnershipboard.org.uk/page/5/view/97/sub/73/subc/26/ldf-guides

Readers of this guide may also be interested in an earlier publication by the same team for Welsh Assembly Government “Developing affordable housing using section 106 agreements: a guidance update” which looks at mechanisms for  negotiating (and renegotiating) S106 agreements  in changing housing markets


http://wales.gov.uk/topics/planning/policy/guidanceandleaflets/affordablehousing/?lang=en
Click here to read more

Our clients

Here are a few examples of the sorts of organisations we work for:

  • Aldwyck Housing Association
  • Barratt Homes
  • Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
  • Cairngorms National Park Authority
  • Cambridgeshire Horizons
  • Commission for Rural Communities
  • Communities and Local Government
  • East Midlands Regional Assembly
  • Greater London Authority
  • NHPAU
  • National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
  • Monmouthshire Council
  • Planning Advisory Service
  • Poole Borough Council
  • Retirement Housing Group
  • Shelter
  • South East England Partnership Board
  • South Northamptonshire Council
  • Taunton Deane Borough Council
  • Telford and Wrekin Council
  • Welsh Assembly Government
  • House Builders Association

People to contact at Three Dragons

Kathleen Dunmore
Telephone: +44 (0)1908 561769
Email: kathleen.dunmore@three-dragons.co.uk
Lin Cousins
Telephone: +44 (0)1935 432990
Email: lin.cousins@three-dragons.co.uk
Catherine Gilbert
Telephone: +44 (0)1935 432990
Email: catherine.gilbert@three-dragons.co.uk
Since the beginning of September 2009, Dr Andrew Golland has no longer been working with Three Dragons. Dr Golland can be contacted at: Tel: 01664 840181
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