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Marine Development

At Spindrift we've always been excited by marinas and waterfront spaces. Director Jody Slater has been immersed in the world of recreational water sports since childhood, and now blends her extensive knowledge of that environment with her professional qualifications in planning and urban design to offer clients a unique marine development service.

We often support clients in the early stages of their development journey, researching and testing viability alongside specialist engineers, ensuring that design solutions not only look good but are also practical for the marine environment. Spindrift often provides the lynchpin for initial discussions helping engineering, property and architectural professionals to work together.

We've worked on marine and waterfront projects including;

Marina and Waterfront Master Planning

Coastal Policy Development

Research & Feasibility Testing

Development Management for Waterfront Applications (UK)

Kuwait Zoning Code

The Kuwait Zoning Code was the first to use the DPZ Form-Based Code model outside the US. Spindrift prepared the coastal overlay of the code, which included extensive research legal and physical research.

Abu Dhabi Plan Maritime 2030

Spindrift led the research, master planning and policy development for the leisure marine element of this plan, based on the principles of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). Including board sports, yachts and dhows, fishing, superyachts & cruising.

Southsea Common Masterplan

This master planning exercise on the central core of Southsea Common explored the challenges of an active waterfront and vehicular access and creating improved connection between the city and its waterfront.

Odessa Marina Concept

Spindrift supports the MDL Development Consultancy team testing the feasibility of client sites. This site in Odessa included a marina, a public waterfront, commercial property, residential accommodation, a service yard and publicly accessible decked car park.

Panama Research Project

Spindrift provides bespoke research for clients who need to fuse land use, planning policy, and marine activity data to assess a sites potential and have that data graphically presented in a way which is attractive to investors.

Development Management

Spindrift provides Consultant Design Officer support to Local Authorities managing and assessing applications on complex waterfront sites, like North Street Quarter in Lewes (Now The Phoenix).

Croatian Island Concepts

Spindrift supported the team at Camper and Nicholson Marinas in developing concepts for two island sites off the coast of Croatia as part of an initial viability and marketing exercise.

Kotor, Albania

Jody travelled to Albania as part of the MDL Consultancy Team to undertake site analysis and market research for this fascinating mix-use marina opportunity in southern Albania.

Shahama Port, Abu Dhabi

Working with the CH2M Hill Ports & Marine Team, Jody helped the client to develop a scheme which could successfully integrate dry stack, commercial marine and ancillary leisure businesses around an existing under utilised commercial port basin.