Land Assembly
It pays to be bold when assessing whether acquiring more land or partnering with your neighbours might deliver something bigger - and perhaps more valuable - than if you went it alone.
Rare biotech real estate on Cambridge’s world beating life sciences campus
We’ll piece together the jigsaw for you by looking at the technical and financial advantages of bringing multiple landowners together to work towards a shared goal.
By looking at your site’s boundaries, access, topography and flood risk, we can compare the capacity of your land with the technical benefits of joining up with your neighbours and opening bigger opportunities.
Sharing infrastructure costs or access arrangements across multiple land parcels can make proposals more deliverable and planning permission more likely. It’s often more beneficial to partner up than go it alone.
We will facilitate your agreement, making sure each party is fully accountable, and that the plan can be achieved and on fair terms. Equalising value across all land ownerships is central to your pact.
Assembling land can be completed relatively quickly, but some partners can end up working together for more than 10 years. We will help you get things right from the start
Service options
Strategic planning advice
Securing planning permission locks value into your development, but it’s early strategic and creative planning advice that creates it.
Opportunity analysis
By focusing on maximising the opportunity, we will help you look beyond the site’s constraints and see what might be possible.
Initial concept design and financial analysis
At the inception of a project you need someone to have a feel for where you are headed, helping you sense check ideas and look at the financial implications of design choices and technical information.
Scoping financials and other priorities
Understanding what you want from a development project is the starting point. It’s different for everyone but only once your objectives are clear can we shape your strategy around them.
Joint venture and partnering
We pair ambitious developers with long-term UK and global investors, setting up innovative joint venture arrangements that build in flexibility and work for everyone from start to finish.
Shortlisting and selection process
Your site has development potential, but you need a partner to help unlock its full value. Choosing the right one is not always a matter of simply picking the highest bidder.
Project commencement and performance monitoring
Agreeing the right deal up front is important but good performance monitoring ensures project objectives are hit. You need sustained focus from a well-oiled team delivering from day one.
Related projects
Creating a new home for science in one of the largest innovation districts in Europe
Developing a Cambridge life science cluster to advance research and discovery
More of our development capabilities
Sourcing development opportunities
Development management
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