Strategic Planning When Sourcing Opportunities

3-4-Station-Square-CB1 — 3-4 Station Square, CB1

CB1

Creating a home for three of the world’s four trillion-dollar companies

We’ll help to assess value, masterplan, calculate planning risk and unlock development opportunities by advising on the planning potential of your site.

Getting planning permission might be the goal but our advice aims to ensure it’s the right type of permission - one that is deliverable and maximises value. Our early guidance will help define your vision and make good early decisions.

We’ll help you assess existing planning permissions or strategies, advising on whether there may be an alternative path to the same goal. Our experience in our chosen markets will also help us navigate your scheme through the local politics of planning.

Navigating a path to planning consent means persuading the doubters and managing conflict along the way - it is not for the faint-hearted. We’ll help devise the planning strategy you need to reap the rewards

Service options

Finding opportunities before other buyers is where development value lies. After more than 180 years in our markets, we know how and where to access the opportunities most worth pursuing.

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Your site has prospects, but only after its opportunities and constraints have been uncovered can you spot potential problems and turn them to your advantage.

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Fully maximising your development returns and accurately modelling your cash flow requires bags of experience. Getting the correct numbers out means putting the right information in.

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We structure and agree creative development funding deals, sourced within our long-established global investor networks, helping you offset risk and maximise your profitability.

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By leveraging our on-the-pulse market insight into what national and international occupiers need from their space and business locations, you can align your proposals to fund and develop with confidence.

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The scheme looks fantastic and ticks all the boxes, but can someone deliver it? Fully understanding the viability of your scheme from an early stage ensures it will be.

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When the property sector was still grappling with mitigating environmental harm in development, we were busy pioneering a start-to-finish biodiversity net gain solution.

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Big is beautiful. By joining forces with neighbouring landowners or buying more land you can be more ambitious with your proposals, generating higher returns than you might going it alone.

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You need to know when the money will start coming in and how quickly. Our local understanding gauges the market’s likely absorption rate and builds a phasing strategy to suit.

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Our project managers provide detailed benchmarking data from a broad portfolio of completed projects, allowing developers to make informed decisions.

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