Helping planners and developers assess the true impact of capital projects
Unlock influence and clearly communicate the economic, social and environmental value of development projects.
Overview
Capital projects do more than deliver new infrastructure, they drive jobs, investment and long-term economic growth. Whether developing housing, transport, or regeneration initiatives, understanding a project’s full value is essential for planning and unlocking influence with decision-makers.
Oxford Economics helps public planning bodies and developers measure and communicate this value with clarity and credibility. With decades of experience analysing major infrastructure and development projects around the world, we provide robust, data-driven insights that inform planning applications, investment cases and community engagement.
Our new Capital Projects Economic Impact Calculator offers an accessible entry point to this wider analysis delivering rapid, reliable insights into your project’s economic contribution. It can also be extended through our consultancy services to capture broader social, environmental and fiscal impacts, providing a comprehensive view of your project’s total value and helping you unlock influence at every stage of development.
Tailored solutions
Governments at all levels are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the value of capital projects, balancing growth with fiscal responsibility and community outcomes.
Our Calculator enables planning and regeneration teams to:
- Build evidence-based business cases for funding and policy submissions
- Assess the economic contribution of planned developments at local or regional levels
- Support transparent, consistent appraisal of projects across departments
- Communicate impact to residents, councillors, and central government stakeholders
By combining trusted data with clear visualisation tools, the Calculator empowers planning bodies to make informed, data-driven decisions that strengthen their local economies.
Developers play a crucial role in shaping investment and development strategies. Our tool helps consultancies deliver faster, more robust analysis for clients, supporting both private and public-sector projects.
The Calculator enables consultancies to:
- Rapidly model and compare the economic impact of alternative development scenarios
- Strengthen client submissions with credible, data-backed evidence
- Integrate economic impact analysis seamlessly into planning reports
- Expand consultancy services into socio-economic and sustainability analysis
- Built with flexibility and transparency in mind, the Calculator streamlines impact modelling and enhances the quality of strategic advice planning consultancies provide to their clients.
Why measure your capital project’s impact?
By quantifying your project’s economic impact and social value, you can build stronger planning cases, increase stakeholder confidence, and support sustainable investment decisions.
Shape perception. Unlock influence.
Build Stronger Local and Regional Relationships
Strengthen Funding and Policy Cases
Support sustainable, future-focused planning
Capital projects economic impact calculator overview
Our calculator provides a flexible, accessible tool for assessing the economic impact of capital investments. Designed for planning teams and consultancies, it delivers clear insights and interactive outputs to support local decision-making.
Quantify direct, indirect, and induced effects on GVA, employment, and tax revenues.
Model the potential impact of new investments and expansions to inform planning and stakeholder engagement and strengthen funding and policy cases.
present, share and
communicate results
Choose from interactive dashboards and downloadable data making it easy to share findings with planners, developers, and community stakeholders.
Adaptable to national and subnational levels, with an intuitive interface that simplifies data input and aligns with planning workflows.
Capital projects research & collaborations
Our economic impact team has delivered numerous impact assessments for governments, developers and infrastructure clients worldwide.
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Bespoke insights: Unlock a deeper view of project impact
For organisations seeking a full analysis, our consultancy service offers tailored studies that quantify wider social, environmental and fiscal contributions enhancing strategic planning and stakeholder engagement.
Work with our expert team to gain:
- Proven expertise – Decades of experience delivering trusted impact studies for public planning bodies and developers across the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
- Robust, evidence-based analysis – Powered by Oxford Economics’ proprietary data, models and global economic insight.
- Tailored messaging – Insights and outputs aligned to your priorities, from strategic planning to stakeholder engagement and funding bids.
- Broader impact perspective – Measuring not just economic outcomes but the wider social and cultural value your project creates.
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