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.
