What I Do

Expert independent advice and consultancy services for land, planning and development.

With you every step of the way.

I provide independent, client-side advice and management to help you deliver development projects from feasibility through to planning, funding, construction and exit. Some clients ask me to lead a project from start to finish. Others bring me in for specific pieces of work where they need professional support.

The below services are designed to provide expert advice and management for your project.

Services:

Land & Estate Consultancy

Strategic advice on land, estates and property.

I work with estates and landowners to review their land and buildings, identify realistic development and income opportunities, and set out a sensible plan for what to do next.

What do I offer?
  • Planning feasibility review

  • Local policy and constraint mapping

  • Estate-wide land and asset reviews

  • Identification and prioritisation of development opportunities

  • Change of use and enabling development strategies

  • Long-term income and disposal planning

  • Strategic estate advice

Rural estates, trusts, businesses and private landowners with multiple or complex land holdings, and developers assessing new opportunities.

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Planning & Feasibility Consultancy

Planning consultancy to test, shape and deliver schemes.

I provide planning led advice to help you understand what is realistic for your land or property, and then manage the route through the planning system.

What do I offer?

  • Planning appraisals and deliverability reviews

  • Planning application strategy and programme

  • Preparation, submission and management of planning applications

  • Coordination of the consultant team and responses to consultee comments

  • Permitted development rights advice and prior approval applications

  • Appeals and enforcement advice, including strategy and input to statements

  • Local policy, designation and constraint mapping

  • Development appraisals and uplift assessments to test options

  • Development viability assessment

Landowners, developers, and businesses looking to progress planning.

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Development Management & Project Delivery

Taking consented schemes through procurement, pre-construction and build.

Once a scheme is consented or close to consent, I provide client-side development management services to turn it into a deliverable, commenceable project, and then manage delivery.

What do I offer?

  • Preparation of a deliverable brief, including review of conditions, reserved matters, Section 106 triggers and technical approvals

  • Pre-construction and technical due diligence, including coordination of design development, buildability, warranty and building control requirements

  • Procurement strategy and tendering for main contractors and key consultants, including review and negotiation of appointments and building contracts

  • Budgeting, cost planning, and cash flow modelling

  • Client-side project management services

  • Client-side cost management services

  • Managing change, variations and commercial negotiations during the build

  • Support through practical completion, handover, defects and final account agreement

Landowners and businesses looking to deliver successful development projects. 

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Development Economics & Project Finance Support

Testing viability and preparing schemes for development finance.

I help clients understand whether a scheme is genuinely viable, including the impact of Section 106 and other obligations, and then support them in securing project finance. 

What do I offer?

Viability, obligations and economics

  • Residual land value and development appraisals

  • Cash flow modelling and sensitivity analysis

  • Review of cost, value and risk assumptions

  • Section 106, CIL and affordable housing viability input

  • “What if?” testing of phasing, tenure mix and exit strategies

Development finance and lender engagement

  • Funding strategy and options review (senior debt, mezzanine, equity)

  • Preparation of lender-ready information packs and appraisals

  • Support with initial approaches to lenders and brokers

  • Ongoing responses to lender due diligence and monitoring queries

  • Coordination with valuers and monitoring surveyors where required

Landowners and SME developers who want a clear view of viability before committing, and support in presenting schemes to lenders in a way that can be funded and delivered.

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Disposals, Acquisitions & Partnerships

Support on land transactions and structured deals.

I have extensive experience in advising on land transactions and structuring disposals and acquisitions, to ensure deals align with planning, viability and long term client objectives. I help clients understand the mechanics of conditional agreements and partnerships. 

What do I offer?

  • Reviewing sites and offers before you commit

  • Strategic disposal advice

  • Advising when a deal structure or headline price is realistic (or not)

  • Input on Heads of Terms and deal mechanics

  • Advising on joint venture and partnership structures

Landowners, estates and businesses looking to acquire and dispose of sites. 

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Work with me

Whether you are exploring options for your land or property, considering a specific development, or looking for a second opinion on a live scheme, I am happy to help.

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