Services

Finding the site an operator or developer actually needs, rather than the one that happens to be on the market. We work from a written brief, approach landowners directly, and keep agent relationships across the North West of England and North Wales warm so that the right site surfaces before it is widely marketed.

• A brief, not a wish list

  Sector, bed or unit numbers, catchment, site size, access, planning appetite and the commercial structure you can work with. The clearer the brief, the fewer wasted site visits.

• Off-market search

  Direct approaches to landowners, farmers, estates, charities and occupiers whose land fits, plus a watch on allocations, call-for-sites submissions and lapsed consents.

• Agent network

  Regular contact with the development land agents who matter in the North West of England and North Wales, so introductions arrive early and with the context they need.

• First-stage appraisal

  A desktop review of planning history, policy, constraints, access and demand before anyone spends money on a site visit or professional fees.

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Taking land through the planning system so it is worth more when it is sold. For a landowner this means we carry the work and much of the cost of securing consent, in return for a share of the uplift when the site is sold with planning.

• Site assessment

  Whether the land has a realistic route to consent: policy position, allocations, local housing or care need, constraints, access and neighbours.

• The agreement

  A promotion agreement or an option agreement, explained plainly before you sign. Both are set out in the sectors pages and in the land requirements page.

• Planning strategy

  Choosing the use that has the best chance and the best value, which in many towns is a care home or retirement scheme rather than general housing.

• The professional team

  Appointing and managing planners, architects, highways, ecology, drainage and the other consultants a planning application needs.

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Advice for a site you already have. Whether it is a parcel with no planning history, a consent that no longer suits the market, or a scheme that needs an operator or a funder, we give a commercial view of what the site can be and how to get there.

• Site and scheme appraisal

  What use, what size and what value. A care home needs catchment demand and a certain number of beds to work; a retirement scheme needs a different site. The appraisal says which, and why.

• Planning strategy

  Pre-application advice, the case for the use, and the right professional team for the application.

• Viability and structure

  Build cost, land value, operator rent or sale price, and how the deal is structured so it works for landowner, developer and operator.

• Operator and partner introductions

  Matching a site to the operators, developers and funders active in the sector and the region.

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Selling a site is a question of reaching the right buyers, not the most buyers. We know which operators are expanding, which developers are buying and which funders are backing them, and we run a process that gets to the best deliverable offer rather than the highest headline figure.

• Preparing the site

  Collecting the title, planning, technical and legal information a serious buyer will ask for, so the process does not stall later.

• Pricing and structure

  Advising on what the site should achieve and whether an unconditional sale, a conditional contract or a joint venture will produce the best outcome.

• Targeted marketing

  Direct approaches to the operators, developers and investors whose requirements match, alongside wider marketing where it adds value.

• Running the process

  Managing viewings, questions, bids and best-and-final offers, and testing each bidder’s ability to complete.

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