http://www.bsp-consulting.co.uk/sectors/pre-planning/

Our input includes feasibility  work at inception stage of projects, assistance with promotion of sites at a strategic level, and work associated with the planning application phase and planning appeals.

Services include transport planning (e.g. transport assessments/statements and travel plans), drainage strategies, flood risk assessments, site investigations and environmental noise assessments. We can also arrange for additional services such as air quality assessments, topographical surveys, archaeological assessments and ecological surveys.

http://www.hop.uk.com/services-civil/pre-planning-services.html

Scheme site layouts.

Flood Risk Assessments.

Flood defence design and approval.

Drainage Assessment and design.

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS).

Underground Services - Incoming supply coordination and assessment.

Highway Design and approvals (Private and Adoptable roads).

External works/landscaping levels (Including Cut/fill volumes).

Sustainability Statements.

Traffic management

Site Waste Management Plans.

Green Travel Plans.

Contamination Assessments

Site Investigation coordination and specification.

Piling Risk Assessments.

Environment Agency approvals (consent to discharge, works to rivers, contamination remediation etc etc)

Preliminary Structural schemes and advice (foundations, retaining structures, superstructures)

http://www.metconsultancygroup.com/engineering/pre-planning-services

https://www.construction-institute.org/scriptcontent/more/39_1_more.cfm

10 Project Pre-Planning Ideas That Work

http://ecmweb.com/content/10-project-pre-planning-ideas-work

During a typical construction day, more than 35% of a contractor's time is spent on activities other than actual installation work. This could be anything from time spent moving around the job site, mobilizing, and cleaning up to studying the plans, laying out the work, and any other activities not directly related to actual installation. This time is spread evenly over the course of a typical project.