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With over 70 property experts based in our offices in Cambridge, Northampton, Peterborough and Long Melford, we can provide a full suite of property services to the eastern region. This includes commercial property, residential sales and lettings, rural, planning, building consultancy and project management, development, valuation, energy and infrastructure and everything in-between.
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Parallax 270
Cambridge Science Park
Commercial Agency
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Parallax 270 Cambridge Science Park
Our Cambridge based professionals are retained by South Cambridgeshire District Council to manage their investment and asset management portfolio. Our appointment has included the acquisition of Building 270 on behalf of SCDC in 2019, in-depth advice on the extensive refurbishment programme and an on-going project and asset management role.
The newly named Parallax building sits on the world-renowned Cambridge Science Park campus which is home to more than 130 companies across 150 acres from start-ups to major players in the science and hi-tech sectors.
Carter Jonas worked closely with SCDC to advise on the transformation of the building into six individual open-plan office suites, centred around a stylish triple-storey atrium. Each of the suites have been designed to Cat A specification, with raised floors and fully upgraded heating and ventilation and LED lighting. The refurbishment focused on achieving low-carbon credentials, with high specification upgrades to all M&E systems, integration of solar PV, electric vehicle charging points and a state-of-the-art Mitsubishi HVRF system.
Since the works have complete, the Commercial Agency team have been working together to dispose of the 38,538 sq ft of Grade A office space on a leasehold basis. 270 Cambridge Science Park has been repositioned to become an attractive, high quality, competitive space on the Park and the investment value has significantly increased as a result of the broad range of expertise and investment strategy put forward by Carter Jonas.
Knight's Hill, King's Lynn
Development Consultancy & Land Agency
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King’s Lynn
A substantial 87 acre site, 2 miles to the Northeast of King’s Lynn, with 3 separate landowning parties.
A Promotion Agreement was initially negotiated on behalf of the majority Landowner and the site was promoted through the emerging local plan by the Carter Jonas planning team, who were subsequently successful in obtaining outline consent at appeal for 600 units.
The Cambridge Residential Development Team then undertook a full, National, marketing exercise, acting as the primary lead between Landowners agents, legal representatives and the Promoter, and co-ordinated a competitive informal tender process, generating offers in excess of expectation, prior to the selection of a preferred bidder.
The team were able to ensure focus was maintained, obstacles overcome and momentum maintained to see the site successfully steered to contractual exchange with a National House Builder, securing the reserved matters application for colleagues. It is anticipated that construction will start on site in Jan 2023.
Former NIAB site
Planning Consultancy
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Former NIAB Site, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge
Client: Vertex Living Ltd
Our Planning Consultancy team was instructed to manage a complex planning application for the redevelopment of a significant brownfield site on a main arterial road into Central Cambridge. The proposal involved the retention of the former NIAB.
Headquarters building, the demolition of all other buildings and structures, and the erection of buildings with basements for 291 Build to Rent units (Use Class C3) including affordable
housing and a 202 bed Apart-Hotel (Sui Generis) and associated facilities along with access, car and cycle parking, landscaping and infrastructure works.
Our planning team managed a team of other consultants to take this scheme through the planning process and were extensively involved in neighbour and stakeholder consultation. The team negotiated the terms of the Section 106 Agreement under which 20% of the total number of build to rent units will be reserved at below market rents for those with a work or family connection to the City.
Construction is expected to commence in 2023.
The Welding Institute
Abington Hall
Building Consultancy
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The Welding Institute, Abington Hall
Our building consultancy team in Cambridge have played a key role in the growth of Cambridge Science Parks, advising clients such as The Welding Institute to design, procure and manage the refurbishment of their diverse property portfolio, to create desirable office space for a range of commercial tenants.
Our extensive experience and expertise of heritage properties has significantly contributed to the successful restoration of Abington Hall, a landmark Grade II* listed refurbishment, set within the grounds of Granta Park. Abington Hall has taken on many different roles through its history and now offers 14,500 square feet of unique modern office space for multiple occupants.
The completion of this project within budget and programme was critical in helping The Welding Institute to maximise return on investment and increase commercial revenue from a previously vacant asset. Carter Jonas’ knowledge and track record in the heritage and commercial fit-out sectors enabled us to deliver on the client’s expectations throughout all stages of the project, including design, specification, and stakeholder management.
Gaynes Park, Essex
Rural Consultancy, Management & Agency
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Gaynes Park, Essex
Carter Jonas has managed the Gaynes Park Estate in Essex for over 20 years and is tasked with identifying opportunities to increase regular income and achieve capital gains. With a mixed farming operation that historically covers its costs, and the expected reduction in future subsidies, the estate needs to look at alternative income and opportunities from the Estate Assets.
Nine potential development projects have led to five planning applications. Three of which have now turned into planning permissions. This will enable capital receipts from the sale of five new development plots to help develop out two conversions and one new build.
The next phase of the estate’s development is a commercial application which could turn five agricultural buildings into a business park with potential for over £100,000 of rental income.
The estate also already benefits from natural capital diversification in the form of a woodland burial site via a 100-year lease over 20-hectares.
Opportunities at Gaynes Park are driven by the level of development and population numbers in the local planning authority area. The estate is in a good position to deliver Biodiversity Net Gain for a proportion of the 12,000 new houses that are required locally.
Residential Sales
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Spring House,
Great Shelford
Spring House
Imposing and architecturally striking Arts and Crafts style masterpiece, designed by James Snell of Snell David Architects. Home Building & Renovations Best Traditional House Award 2015.
Spring House is tucked away at the end of Coppice Avenue; a beautiful tree lined private road within the highly desirable village of Great Shelford. The property itself sits well back from the avenue upon a sizeable and mature plot which has been thoughtfully landscaped to complement this truly unique and stunning Arts and Crafts style property. The level of detail which has been applied to this award-winning project is quite exceptional, and the result, even more so. Fine joinery including the stunning central staircase and beautiful wall panelling, all visible upon entering Spring House, convincingly set the tone of the Arts and Crafts movement, upon which this property has been modelled.
Fairhaven Estate
Residential Lettings
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Fairhaven Estate
Our Cambridge residential lettings team were instructed to act on behalf of the Fairhaven Estate in 2017. The estate consists of 30 units, ranging from quaint 2-bedroom cottages to breath taking 6-bedroom farmhouses in and around Newmarket. The rents range from £900pcm - £4,500 pcm.
Our lettings and property management team are one of the most experienced in Cambridge with over 120 years and furthermore hold multiple ARLA qualifications.
Land at Linton
Masterplanning
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Bloor Homes
Our Masterplanning Team are appointed by Bloor Homes to assist them in the early promotion of a residential-led, mixed use extension on the western edge of the village of Linton, Cambridgeshire.
With heritage and landscape considerations to be addressed, the challenge for the team has been to prepare a masterplan vision that will deliver a sustainable and integrated community that responds positively to its surrounding context, and to the challenges of our changing climate.
The resulting landscape and environmentally led masterplan will deliver a new sympathetic village-style development of approximately 300 new homes, interconnecting by a network of green spaces, that are woven into the heart of the development.
The masterplan vision promotes strong environmental and community placemaking design solutions. The development will be set in approximately 6.5 hectares of new publicly accessible open space, including children’s play spaces and significant ecological, habitat and biodiversity enhancements. The proposals also support the delivery of new on-site community facilities, with a new Doctors Surgery site, Early Years site and community allotments.
University of Cambridge: Broers Building
Property & Asset Management
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University of Cambridge: Broers Building
The Broers Building is owned by our client the University of Cambridge and prominently sits at the University’s West Cambridge Campus as a hub for emerging and established R&D companies. The 42,000 sq ft four-storey multi-let office and laboratory accommodation commands some of the highest rents (on a rate per sq ft basis) across Cambridge, outstripping some of its Science Park, Research Park and Innovation Park counterparts.
Over the past few years our Cambridge Property & Asset Management team has successfully been able to optimise our flagship client’s key investment property. Our team has led on a wide mix of negotiations with tenants navigating lease re-gears, surrenders, break options, dilapidations, new lettings and renewals. In doing so, we have been able to avoid any significant voids and importantly, achieve record new rent levels in the building; on multiple occasions increasing rents by over 10% per annum and elevating the local benchmark.
The flow on effects of our asset management services for the University of Cambridge have significantly improved the investment’s WAULT and inherently seen considerable capital value appreciation well north of £20m.
We continue to provide the full range of management services for the University including lease consultancy, rent collection, service charge administration, facilities management, project management and energy procurement.
Valuations
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Lawn Farm Business Centre,
Woolpit, Bury St Edmunds
A previous area of arable farmland adjacent to the A14 between Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket with planning consent for a new 30 acre business park.
Currently two new warehouse unts, each extending to approximately 30,000 sq ft have been completed on a pre-let basis and there remains around 12.5 acres of undeveloped serviced land available in three parcels ready for future development.
Carter Jonas have valued the Property on a number of occasions, firstly as a bare development site prior to any works but with detailed consent for Phase 1, secondly upon completion of Phase 1 and with detailed consent for Phase 2 and finally upon completion of Phase 2. Carter Jonas have also been involved with the project monitoring of the development.
Homerton
Business Centre
Lease Advisory
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Hommerton Business Centre
Situated on a private road off Hills Road, Homerton Business Centre occupied by Abbey College lies between Homerton College and Hills Road Sixth Form College. The Business Centre provides modern office, teaching and student accommodation within a 10 minute walk from the train station and sought after CB1 office location.
We were instructed by the freeholder Homerton College to undertake rent reviews on two buildings housing a combination of teaching and office accommodation and comprising in excess of 46,000 sq ft. Reflecting the original negotiations when the Property was constructed for the current occupier, the geared rent review provisions which differed between the two buildings included non-standard assumptions.
Our knowledge of this location and property sector enabled an increase in excess of 10% of the headline rent to be achieved for Homerton College.
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Our vision for sustainability is to adopt business strategies and activities that meet the needs of Carter Jonas while protecting, sustaining, and enhancing human and natural resources now and for future generations. Since 1855 our people have worked with the natural environment to create more sustainable outcomes for the property and landowners that we have served and within the communities that we work. There are three key elements through which we manage our commitments to sustainability:
We are proud members of the UK Green Building Council and have achieved both the Gold Accreditation as an Investor in People and also the Good Practise Award in recognition of our wider commitments to Health and Wellbeing. To view all of our accreditations and read more about the work we are doing to lead the industry in ESG and EDI visit carterjonas.co.uk/sustainability.
Our detailed policy statement that sets out clear high level aims and objectives for the firm, our ESG Policy is owned by the Management Board and will updated periodically
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Our annual scorecard is the framework within which we set specific objectives and measure our performance against them using a clear Red, Amber, Green system
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Our Annual Sustainability report is published and circulated internally and externally. The report shows our progress against our objectives (as set out in the Annual Scorecard)
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Established in 1855, Carter Jonas is a leading property consultancy working across commercial, residential, rural, planning, development and infrastructure. With 34 offices across the UK, we are renowned for the quality of our service, expertise and the simply better advice we offer our clients.
We manage over 1.3m acres of land
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We are advising on 30k acres of potential development land with the capacity for 130,000 new homes
We are working on over 1.4GW of battery storage
Over 900
property experts
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The leading employer for Chartered Town Planners
We work for 154 local authorities
154
Last year, as a business we turned over £80m
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We advise 12 of the top 25 housebuilders
We are 12th in the Property Week agency league table
99% of our clients were happy with the way their property was promoted
80% of our business comes from repeat clients
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Colin Brown
Planning & Development
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Richard Combes
Partner, Residential Development
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William Rooke
Commercial
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Alan Doherty
Building Consultancy
01223 346 641
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Tim Jones
Head of Cambridge
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Jack Johnson
Residential Sales
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Anton Frost
Residential Lettings
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Jason Capel
New Homes
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Glen Richardson
Masterplanning & Urban Design
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Kurt Richards
Property and Asset Management
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Sushil Patel
Associate, Project Management
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Kate Procter
Lease Advisory
07557 286479
Lawn Farm Business Centre, Woolpit, Bury St Edmunds
Lawn Farm Business Centre, Woolpit, Bury St Edmunds
The Printworks, Papworth, Everard
NEW HOMES
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The Printworks, Papworth, Everard
A traditionally designed and well-built collection of 53 two, three, four and five-bedroom homes developed on the site of the village’s old print works. As the appointed agent, Carter Jonas New Homes gladly began the process of selling this exciting new development on behalf of our clients, Flagship Housing Group. A dedicated and experienced sales manager was appointed to the development, ensuring a constant and knowledgeable point of contact for both our clients and buyers. We are overwhelmed with how well these homes have been received and this is reflected in the sales achieved since the scheme was first opened.
We are now in the last phase of this development having successfully negotiated and guided sales with over 50% of homes now happily occupied. Our relationship continues to grow with our clients, Flagship Housing Group, and we look forward to working with them on future schemes.
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Nick Brammar
Valuations
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Mark Russell
Rural
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Miles Thomas
Energy
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Lords Bridge
Solar Farm
ENERGY
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Lords Bridge Solar Farm
The Energy team was instructed by the University of Cambridge to secure planning consent for a 22MW ground mounted solar farm. We led on scheme design mitigating against constraints including green belt, listed buildings, and landscape impact, and we included an environmental enhancement plan creating habitats to support local wildlife.
Lords Bridge Solar Farm
Lease Advisory
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Toby Lambert
Residential Development
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Will Mooney
Commercial Development
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