Regeneration
WHO WE ARE
Carter Jonas is at the centre of regeneration, transforming centres, places and sites.
Regeneration schemes are long-term projects with lots of moving parts, requiring a wide range of skillsets. Our focus on lasting relationships, with both clients and fellow professionals, and collaboration between multi-disciplinary teams is proven to deliver successful regeneration, helping towns and cities thrive.
Our dedicated and highly regarded regeneration consultancy team comprises of specialist:
Collectively we have a strong track record of working in partnership with local planning authorities, regeneration bodies, landowners, businesses, investors, developers, stakeholders and communities to help unlock the investment and development potential of centres, assets and sites.
Swansea City Centre,
Glamorgan
Brookfield Riverside, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire
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South Oxfordshire &
Vale of White Horse
District Councils
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Canterbury Riverside, Kent
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Hounslow High Street Quarter, Greater London
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Watford Town Centre, Greater London
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East Barnwell, Cambridgeshire
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Bath Western Riverside, Somerset
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Brentford Community Stadium, London
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Brent Cross
Cricklewood, London
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St Ann’s Hospital Site, London
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Avenue Road Estate Redevelopment, London
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Winstanley & York Road
Estates, Battersea &
Alton Estate, Roehampton
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Some of our key clients
Collectively we have a strong track record of working in partnership with local planning authorities, regeneration bodies, landowners, businesses, investors, developers, stakeholders and communities to help unlock the investment and development potential of centres, assets and sites.
What our clients say about us
Paul has been a valued adviser to Swansea Council for over 20 years and has provided first class advice in support of Swansea becoming a city fit for the 21st century.
Both Paul and Caroline have become key members of "Team Swansea”, having provided strategic property and detailed project delivery advice. They have contributed significantly to the creation of the very exciting regeneration agenda that Swansea is now delivering and have supported policy preparation and the recent Shaping Swansea procurement exercise to appoint a new private sector partner to deliver the next key phases of development for Swansea.
Huw Mowbray
Swansea Council
The team at Carter Jonas has played a fundamental role in helping to deliver this exciting regeneration project for Canterbury. From initial feasibility, through planning, developer procurement, negotiation of contract documents and site assembly and now to actual construction on-site they have worked very closely with the Council. Officers and Councillors have relied heavily on their expert knowledge and robust advice throughout. The Carter Jonas team has been responsive, committed and a pleasure to work with.
Richard Hall
Regeneration Programme Manager
Canterbury City Council
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If you would like to know more about how we can help you plan, fund and deliver transformational development and regeneration projects for your centres, sites and assets then please contact us.
Providing strategic development advice to Swansea Council on the creation and implementation of their ambitious regeneration agenda.
SWANSEA CITY CENTRE, Glamorgan
Carter Jonas is advising Broxbourne Borough Council and Hertfordshire County Council on a major a new, retail led, mixed use destination for Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.
The Councils now own some 80% of the overall site area and following an OJEU procurement process, Sovereign Peveril Brookfield Limited, has been appointed as the Councils’ development partner.
The £500 million Brookfield Riverside development will create a new centre for the Borough with up to 315,000 sq ft of retail; 250,000 sq ft of leisure, restaurants and a cinema; 160,000 sq ft of offices including a new civic hub; approximately 250 homes and 100 assisted living units; a 2,000-space car park and major improvements to the public realm. It will generate approximately 2,000 jobs during construction and 2,500 new jobs on completion.
The design and tenant mix will reflect the dramatic changes in the retail landscape and will make an important contribution towards Broxbourne’s regeneration.
Brookfield Garden Village is being developed adjacent to the Riverside development, which will comprise 1,250 residential units. The combined developments seek to address the nationwide housing need and the absence of locally accessible good quality leisure and retail which leads to existing residents travelling beyond the borough for day-to-day facilities.
BROOKFIELD RIVERSIDE, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire
Carter Jonas is strategic property advisor to South Oxfordshire District Council and the Vale of White Horse District Council, advising on a number of regeneration projects across the two administrative areas.
Solutions that have been adopted following our advice include relocating the Council offices from an out of town business park to the vicinity of Didcot station – providing a catalyst for the area and access to sustainable transport; commissioning a new masterplan for Abingdon town centre with an emphasis on day-to-day services; and, in response to an extensive local consultation, using an urban extension in Berinsfield to enable more extensive community uses in the town centre.
SOUTH OXFORDSHIRE & VALE OF WHITE HORSE DISTRICT COUNCILS
Members of the Carter Jonas London Development Team has been advising Canterbury City Council on the development of land at Kingsmead, on the edge of Canterbury city centre, for over six years.
The Council’s objectives for this former coach park and depot site were for the development of a leisure-led mixed-use development, including a cinema, restaurants, retail and residential uses. The site is mainly Council owned, but also includes some land owned by third parties.
We advised on feasibility and viability, carried out market testing, led a marketing and developer procurement process, advised on restructuring of the development agreement and a forward funding of the cinema and commercial leisure element of the scheme by the Council.
CANTERBURY RIVERSIDE, KENT
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Carter Jonas advised Barratt London on the redevelopment of a prominent town centre site in the London Borough of Hounslow, to form a new leisure and retail destination with residential accommodation above. The scheme was a joint venture with the Council, with the aim of acting as a catalyst for the wider regeneration of the town centre.
Our planning team was involved in pre-application discussions with the Council, the GLA and TfL, together with extensive community consultation, and led Barratt London through the planning process ultimately to the preparation and submission of a detailed planning application.
The original planning permission, granted in February 2016, comprised of four blocks with 527 residential homes, of which 41% were affordable, a 27 storey tower, a multiscreen cinema and up to 10,000 sqm of retail, restaurant, café and office uses, and a new public square at the heart of the development.
Subsequent Section 73 applications have been made and approved by the Council to amend the scheme, which have resulted in changes to the design and height of the buildings to facilitate an increase in the number of residential homes to 588. Changes have also been secured to the use of the ground floor commercial units, introducing new leisure units to reflect the evolving requirements for town centre developments to further improve the vitality of the scheme. Construction work commenced on the scheme in December 2017 and the scheme is now occupied.
The redevelopment of the High Street Quarter is considered essential to contribute to the regeneration of Hounslow Town Centre. The proposal has provided high quality, urban living accommodation in this location, delivering with it significant social, community and economic benefits to Hounslow’s town centre, as well as the wider area.
HOUNSLOW HIGH STREET QUARTER, Greater London
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Carter Jonas as part of a multidisciplinary team was instructed by Watford Borough Council to produce a Vision and Masterplan for the High Street North area of the town centre. The study considered the future role of the High Street and existing market in the context of the wider retail and leisure provision and the emerging proposals for the adjoining Cultural Hub and Station Gateway.
The study considered the development potential of several major private and council owned sites and how collectively how they might assist in diversifying the current range of uses to reinforce this part of the High Street. Specifically, the London Development Team provided market, viability and delivery advice and which included a range of short, medium and longer term actions.
Subsequently Carter Jonas was retained to provided viability advice to the Council in relation to the Lower High Street Masterplan, which comprised several retail parks, car showrooms and the Tesco’s Extra, which is the largest food store in the town. Given the proximity to the retail core and transport network the area offered significant potential for mixed use development across a number of privately owned sites. The purpose of the study was to consider how the retail provision could be future proofed but also how the area could contribute to the Council’s housing targets.
WATFORD TOWN CENTRE, Greater London
Carter Jonas masterplanning, planning and development teams were jointly appointed in late 2019 by Cambridge City Council to prepare a regeneration framework for the East Barnwell neighbourhood of Cambridge.
Working in close collaboration with Cambridge City Council and local residents and community groups, the study involved five key phases of work: Neighbourhoods and Townscape Analysis, Evaluation of findings, Consultation, Regeneration Strategies and Reporting. The regeneration framework, scheduled for approval later in 2021, forms the basis for future regeneration projects and investment, particularly in relation to new homes and community infrastructure. The regeneration framework enables the council to actively engage with prospective partners, investors, developers and the council itself in its capacity as Local Planning Authority as it seeks to provide for comprehensive and long-term improvements to the area.
The combination of our masterplanning, planning and engagement skills, together with strong input and support from the client, has led to the creation of a series of masterplan “strategies” which address identified local needs and provide a basis for positive change in the area.
EAST BARNWELL, CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Advising Bath and North East Somerset Council on the residential development of the former gasworks site in Bath
Bath Western Riverside
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Carter Jonas has worked with Brentford Football Club and its development partner EcoWorld London for more than 10 years providing advice in connection with the provision of a new Community Stadium at Kew Bridge, Brentford, together with residential development to support its construction.
Our work started with successfully obtaining planning permission in June 2014 for a new stadium (in detail) and 910 new homes (in outline) surrounding it. The residential development, alongside that proposed on its former football ground at Griffin Park to the west, was to help fund the construction of the stadium.
Since then, and working closely with the London Borough of Hounslow, we have subsequently secured a number of amendments to the original planning permission, together with approval of reserved matters for three of the four residential sites. Further amendments to the scheme, as part of the detailed proposals for the fourth residential site, Duffy, seek to increase the total number of new homes across the masterplan site to 1,034. The planning application for those changes is currently under determination by the Council.
Construction of the stadium commenced in April 2018 and was completed in 2020, in time for Brentford Football Club to play their first match there in September 2020. It has a capacity of 17,250. The first phase of residential development for three of the residential sites has been completed and is now being occupied.
Once complete, the strategy will have helped Brentford Football Club to achieve its goal of relocating from its existing stadium at Griffin Park, Brentford, and remain within the Borough, whilst securing the club’s long-term sustainability and delivering alongside it more than 1,000 much needed new residential homes.
Brentford Community Stadium, London
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Carter Jonas advised Hammerson, Standard Life and the London Borough of Barnet in the promotion of CPO powers to enable the first phase of a major regeneration project covering 150 hectares between Brent Cross Shopping Centre and Cricklewood Station in North London. The project will lead to the delivery of 7,500 new homes, 110,000 sq m of retail space, 395,000 sq m of business (B1) space together with 80,000 sq m of hotel and leisure space.
Paul Astbury has been advising Hammerson, Standard Life and LB Barnet in respect of CPO strategy for this major scheme since 2011. Advice has included acquisition strategies, CPO phasing, compensation estimates, land negotiations and inquiry preparation. The scheme involves the acquisition of a wide range of land interests including shopping centre tenants, residential owner occupiers and investors, light industrial and commercial property. Paul represented the Council at Public Inquiry to justify the use of powers for this major scheme.
BRENT CROSS CRICKLEWOOD, LONDON
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Carter Jonas advised the Greater London Authority (GLA) on the procurement of a development partner for surplus land at the St Ann’s Hospital site.
The GLA initially purchased the site from the NHS Trust to ensure delivery of a high-density mixed-use scheme with a significant proportion of affordable housing, supported by valuation advice from the team.
We assisted the GLA in producing a brief for the marketing exercise. Given that there were aspirations for delivery of affordable housing in excess of policy requirements, this involved a wide range of financial modelling to ensure viability and market appetite for the project.
We also examined the potential for community housing and the demand for commercial uses for the site.
The final brief had to balance commercial considerations with the aspirations of the GLA and also a local community group with whom the GLA had entered into a co-operation agreement.
Procurement was undertaken by means of the London Development Panel 2, with Carter Jonas integrally involved in pre-procurement, shortlisting and evaluation of the bids.
Catalyst was selected as the preferred partner in early 2021 to deliver a scheme which will deliver 950 residential units with 60% affordable housing as well as extensive new public realm, community and commercial uses.
ST ANN’S HOSPITAL SITE, LONDON
Avenue Road Estate is a made up of 5 blocks constructed in the 1960s and comprising 258 flats of which 242 are social rented units owned by the Council. It is now in a poor state of repair and presents an unattractive environment.
Carter Jonas was initially instructed to examine options for the site including retention, refurbishment and redevelopment. We undertook condition surveys and also worked with architects HTA on a feasibility study for full redevelopment. The results formed the basis of a Green Book Treasury appraisal of the options from which the Council elected to pursue the redevelopment option.
We carried out an analysis of options for delivery of the scheme which included direct delivery (through the Council’s housing company Sixty Bricks) and potential joint venture structures. However, ultimately the Council decided to procure a development partner to construct the scheme with the Council retaining the social rented units.
Carter Jonas worked with the Council team to prepare a brief for the site which included reprovision of the 242 social rented units as well as community facilities. The overall scheme is expected to provide upward of 550 units.
AVENUE ROAD ESTATE REDEVELOPMENT, LONDON
Carter Jonas was instructed by the London Borough of Wandsworth in 2019 to review the Financial Viability Assessments for two major housing estate renewal projects in the Borough at Winstanley & York Road in Battersea and the Alton Estate in Roehampton.
The Winstanley & York Road Estate regeneration project is being delivered through a joint venture partnership between the Council and Taylor Wimpey and will provide 2,550 new homes. The Alton Estate regeneration project is also to be delivered through a partnership with a private sector developer and will provide 1,108 new homes.
Carter Jonas’ role on both projects was to act as the local planning authority’s viability advisor and review the FVAs submitted to determine the level of affordable of housing that the schemes can deliver. For each site, this involved comparing the development value of the application scheme with the Benchmark Land Value.
Both schemes required discussions with the GLA, negotiation with the Applicants on the assumptions used to calculate the BLVs and the development value of the schemes, and sensitivity testing, including scenarios with grant funding.
The Winstanley & York Road Estate is to deliver 35% affordable housing, whereas the Alton Estate is still to be determined.
WINSTANLEY & YORK ROAD ESTATES, BATTERSEA & ALTON ESTATE, ROEHAMPTON
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Town Centre and Retail Consultants
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Masterplanners and Urban Designers
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What we do
Some examples of our work
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Site & asset
appraisals
Catchment &
market analysis
Strategic
visioning
Estate strategy
Strategic
acquisitions
Feasibility &
financial viability
assessments
Funding
Delivery options &
development
partner procurement
Construction procurement strategy
Planning strategy & applications
Stakeholder engagement & consultation
Land assembly
& compulsory purchase
Asset management
Project monitoring & management
Commercial & residential investment & agency
Design development
Assembly of
multi-disciplinary
teams
Masterplanning,
urban design
& placemaking
Cost estimates and cost reporting
Design team procurement
Contract administration/ employers representative
Viability & procurement
Consultation
& Consent
Delivery
Vision &
Strategy
We provide initial planning, development and financial viability advice to help our private and public sector clients understand the future development potential and value of complex sites and difficult or failing assets.
Using our in-house Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and bespoke market research surveys, we are able to define realistic catchments, population and customer profiles. This market intelligence, combined with our understanding of the key performance indicators that make successful centres and places work, means that we can advise on how to create more attractive and viable locations, increase trips and footfall, and grow asset values and business profitability.
We have a strong track record of preparing creative and robust evidence-based economic and commercial retail, leisure and town centre strategic visions that help to inform plan-making and direct new investment and development to the right locations at the right time. We can assist clients in taking a proactive approach and repositioning their urban centres or individual assets to respond to changing consumer behaviours and market demand.
Carter Jonas undertakes estate strategies, portfolio reviews, asset management plans, options appraisals and business cases for local authorities across the UK. Our service-led methodology captures all occupier requirements through a comprehensive consultation programme allowing transformation of the estate. Our reviews have identified collaboration opportunities and more efficient use of sites, which has resulted in the release of considerable amounts of land and property for regeneration, sale and the creation of new revenue streams.
Carter Jonas’s investment and development teams work collaboratively to support clients in preparing the business case for strategic acquisitions to enable change to come forward.
Our in-house masterplanning team is involved at all stages in the development and regeneration process. We are helping to create and deliver attractive, commercially viable and sustainable places that combine the optimum mix of uses in high quality buildings and environments. Our advice extends from strategic masterplans for urban areas to site specific solutions.
We are use our network to bring together the right combination of specialist sub-consultants for an instruction, whom we subsequently manage on behalf of our clients.
We have a dedicated team of development and valuation surveyors who are highly skilled in analysing and advising on the financial viability of regeneration schemes. Our experts provide commercial direction through the design and planning process, including advice on how to balance regeneration outputs and financial returns. Our network of offices across the UK means we are able to combine a national overview with a comprehensive knowledge of the local markets we work in.
Our development and investment teams work on a wide variety of industry standard and innovative financial structures to source capital for regeneration schemes. Working for both public sector and private sector developers and investors, we have extensive experience of grant funding and related business cases, including Green Book appraisals.
We regularly advise public sector clients on the delivery structure options and procurement processes to select the right development partner to deliver their regeneration objectives. Our services include the identification and analysis of delivery options, from conditional sales and development agreements through to full equity participation joint ventures, and procurement methods including OJEU-compliant processes.
One of our key strengths as placemakers is our ability to work collaboratively with local communities, landowners, businesses and stakeholders to better understand the potential opportunities and constraints of new development and regeneration initiatives. Our approach to engagement ranges from informal meetings through to co-ordinating more formal stakeholder workshops and public exhibitions, both in person and online.
Our commercial planning teams across the UK have a strong track record of negotiating and delivering major regeneration and mixed-use development on complex sites for both our public and private sector clients. This includes acting as expert witness at local plan and public inquiries.
We provide commercial input into emerging plans to ensure they are market facing, viable and deliverable.
Assembling the land required for regeneration is central to success. Assembling land may be through partnerships, key acquisitions or comprehensive land assembly. We are market leading land assembly and compulsory purchase advisors across the UK, providing strategic advice for acquiring authorities and developers to ensure timely delivery of land for redevelopment while managing cost and risk profiles.
We have a strong track record in commercial property management, ranging from day-to-day management to the preparation of business plans focused on lease restructuring, change of use, refurbishment and development.
Delivering a bespoke service designed around the requirements of each project, our project managers are experienced in the identification and mitigation of the risks associated with delivering works to the built environment.
With a network of offices across the UK and across all commercial sectors, we offer local insight and provide better coverage for disposals. Our new homes teams comprise industry specialists that deal exclusively with the sale and marketing of new build homes and residential development sites. We also provide both operational and transactional advice in the rapidly developing alternative living markets, to include build-to-rent, single family housing and senior living.
We are adept at developing, interpreting, negotiating, and administering construction contracts on behalf of the client. The team act impartially, ensuring all contractual obligations are executed.
The selection of an appropriate procurement will have varying impacts on timelines, budgets, and quality and thus critical to the overall project success. We identify the most appropriate procurement strategy for the project / programme based on the specific client needs and project drivers, giving reasoned advice for the proposed solution.
The procurement strategy for the design team will depend on the client needs and project drivers such as programme, budget and quality. We work with our clients to develop the most appropriate procurement strategy and have a network of consultants who have various experiences across a variety of sectors that can be drawn upon for any given project.
We have a wealth of robust construction cost data which support the development of accurate and diligent cost estimates through the life of a project. We typically provide cost estimates in line with the RIBA plan of work which would include feasibility, concept, scheme design and pre-tender estimates. Cost reporting can be provided post contract where a construction cost has been agreed.
WINSTANLEY & YORK ROAD
ESTATES, BATTERSEA &
ALTON ESTATE, ROEHAMPTON
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Catterick Garrison,
North Yorkshire
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Carter Jonas provides strategic property advice to the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, advising on the regeneration of the Catterick Garrison town centre.
Catterick Garrison is the largest Army base in the UK but lacks somewhere for people to gather and spend their leisure time. The need for a vibrant and diverse town centre, alongside increased employment and training opportunities, has highlighted the importance of transforming the area around Shute Road to provide improved public realm and essential services to increase footfall and dwell time, and encourage greater social cohesion, as well as driving investment into the area.
The project has been awarded £19m of Levelling Up Funding to create an attractive, vibrant, and inclusive town centre, which will comprise a new town square with a Community and Enterprise facility, significant landscaping improvements both in the town centre and in the adjacent Coronation Park, and enhanced pedestrian and cycle links. This is set to be the first phase in the regeneration of the wider area and Carter Jonas supported the DIO as it worked collaboratively with North Yorkshire Council to secure this funding. This first phase will be delivered in 2025 and the team is now continuing to advise on the regeneration of the wider town centre with the aim of delivering the vision for Catterick Garrison and a lasting legacy for the DIO.
CATTERICK GARRISON, NORTH YORKSHIRE
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Johnny Clayton
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Commercial
Ben Le Coq
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Land Assembly & CPO
Paul Astbury
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Town Centres & Urban Change
Jenny Miles
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Planning
Katy Davis
Site & asset appraisals
Catchment & market analysis
Strategic visioning
Estate strategy
Strategic acquisitions
Feasibility & financial viability assessments
Funding
Delivery options & development
partner procurement
Construction procurement strategy
Planning strategy & applications
Stakeholder engagement & consultation
Land assembly & compulsory purchase
Asset management
Project monitoring & management
Commercial & residential investment & agency
Design development
Assembly of multi-disciplinary teams
Masterplanning, urban design
& placemaking
Cost estimates and cost reporting
Design team procurement
Contract administration/ employers representative
Delivery
Consultation & Consent
Viability & procurement
Vision & Strategy
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What we do
We provide initial planning, development and financial viability advice to help our private and public sector clients understand the future development potential and value of complex sites and difficult or failing assets.
Using our in-house Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and bespoke market research surveys, we are able to define realistic catchments, population and customer profiles. This market intelligence, combined with our understanding of the key performance indicators that make successful centres and places work, means that we can advise on how to create more attractive and viable locations, increase trips and footfall, and grow asset values and business profitability.
We have a strong track record of preparing creative and robust evidence-based economic and commercial retail, leisure and town centre strategic visions that help to inform plan-making and direct new investment and development to the right locations at the right time. We can assist clients in taking a proactive approach and repositioning their urban centres or individual assets to respond to changing consumer behaviours and market demand.
Carter Jonas undertakes estate strategies, portfolio reviews, asset management plans, options appraisals and business cases for local authorities across the UK. Our service-led methodology captures all occupier requirements through a comprehensive consultation programme allowing transformation of the estate. Our reviews have identified collaboration opportunities and more efficient use of sites, which has resulted in the release of considerable amounts of land and property for regeneration, sale and the creation of new revenue streams.
Carter Jonas’s investment and development teams work collaboratively to support clients in preparing the business case for strategic acquisitions to enable change to come forward.
Our in-house masterplanning team is involved at all stages in the development and regeneration process. We are helping to create and deliver attractive, commercially viable and sustainable places that combine the optimum mix of uses in high quality buildings and environments. Our advice extends from strategic masterplans for urban areas to site specific solutions.
We are use our network to bring together the right combination of specialist sub-consultants for an instruction, whom we subsequently manage on behalf of our clients.
We have a dedicated team of development and valuation surveyors who are highly skilled in analysing and advising on the financial viability of regeneration schemes. Our experts provide commercial direction through the design and planning process, including advice on how to balance regeneration outputs and financial returns. Our network of offices across the UK means we are able to combine a national overview with a comprehensive knowledge of the local markets we work in.
Our development and investment teams work on a wide variety of industry standard and innovative financial structures to source capital for regeneration schemes. Working for both public sector and private sector developers and investors, we have extensive experience of grant funding and related business cases, including Green Book appraisals.
We regularly advise public sector clients on the delivery structure options and procurement processes to select the right development partner to deliver their regeneration objectives. Our services include the identification and analysis of delivery options, from conditional sales and development agreements through to full equity participation joint ventures, and procurement methods including OJEU-compliant processes.
One of our key strengths as placemakers is our ability to work collaboratively with local communities, landowners, businesses and stakeholders to better understand the potential opportunities and constraints of new development and regeneration initiatives. Our approach to engagement ranges from informal meetings through to co-ordinating more formal stakeholder workshops and public exhibitions, both in person and online.
Our commercial planning teams across the UK have a strong track record of negotiating and delivering major regeneration and mixed-use development on complex sites for both our public and private sector clients. This includes acting as expert witness at local plan and public inquiries.
We provide commercial input into emerging plans to ensure they are market facing, viable and deliverable.
Assembling the land required for regeneration is central to success. Assembling land may be through partnerships, key acquisitions or comprehensive land assembly. We are market leading land assembly and compulsory purchase advisors across the UK, providing strategic advice for acquiring authorities and developers to ensure timely delivery of land for redevelopment while managing cost and risk profiles.
We have a strong track record in commercial property management, ranging from day-to-day management to the preparation of business plans focused on lease restructuring, change of use, refurbishment and development.
Delivering a bespoke service designed around the requirements of each project, our project managers are experienced in the identification and mitigation of the risks associated with delivering works to the built environment.
With a network of offices across the UK and across all commercial sectors, we offer local insight and provide better coverage for disposals. Our new homes teams comprise industry specialists that deal exclusively with the sale and marketing of new build homes and residential development sites. We also provide both operational and transactional advice in the rapidly developing alternative living markets, to include build-to-rent, single family housing and senior living.
We are adept at developing, interpreting, negotiating, and administering construction contracts on behalf of the client. The team act impartially, ensuring all contractual obligations are executed.
The selection of an appropriate procurement will have varying impacts on timelines, budgets, and quality and thus critical to the overall project success. We identify the most appropriate procurement strategy for the project / programme based on the specific client needs and project drivers, giving reasoned advice for the proposed solution.
The procurement strategy for the design team will depend on the client needs and project drivers such as programme, budget and quality. We work with our clients to develop the most appropriate procurement strategy and have a network of consultants who have various experiences across a variety of sectors that can be drawn upon for any given project.
We have a wealth of robust construction cost data which support the development of accurate and diligent cost estimates through the life of a project. We typically provide cost estimates in line with the RIBA plan of work which would include feasibility, concept, scheme design and pre-tender estimates. Cost reporting can be provided post contract where a construction cost has been agreed.