A development consultancy has relocated its Birmingham team to a new home in the city.

Ardent, which specialises in land, consent management and stakeholder engagement, has moved to Northspring in Temple Street from The Colmore Building.

The firm works on consenting and delivering projects across the transport, renewables, utilities and regeneration sectors.

It employs around 50 staff in Birmingham and 200 across its portfolio of offices in London, Leeds, Warrington, Dublin and Glasgow.

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Group managing director Jonathan Stott said the move was part of the company's wider growth strategy and to offer the best possible working environment to colleagues.

He said: "We support the delivery of some of the most important developments across the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ through the expertise of our people across all of our teams.

"It has led to very strong growth over the past couple of years and we are planning to grow the team even further in Birmingham and across our other locations too.

"Northspring offers us a fantastic space for the team to be able to come together in one place, to collaborate and to offer the very best service to clients.

"Our working environment and our working practices are massively important to attracting and keeping the very best people in our industry and that is something that we have achieved over recent years and is absolutely key to us continuing to grow."