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Saving Residential Developers Money
April 2013
Denny Adam BA Hons MCIH
Land & Property Development Consultant
www.adamrobertsltd.co.uk
Bringing the Landed to the Gentry
My Background
■ Worked in sales from leaving school
■ Started Humanities degree as mature student in 1976 at Hatfield Poly
■ Students need somewhere to live so started a Housing Co-operative
■ Graduated and took sabbatical as student union president
■ First housing job in Property and Tenancy Management
■ Moved into Social Housing Development
■ Joined Barratt Homes 1989
■ Joined New Age Homes in 1990 as Development Director
■ In 1998 started land and property consultancy company Adam Roberts
Consultancy Ltd
3
What do we do?
What How
Site Finding • Identify off market opportunities for developer and RSL clients
• Carry out detailed searches to identify potential development sites
• Speaking with business owners looking to move, retire or sell up
• Creating links with solicitors, insolvency practitioners and architects
• Asking all contacts to introduce me to building owners looking to sell
Social Housing • Working with Housing Associations to develop new sites
• Local Authority Regeneration schemes
• Partnering with developers to sell their affordable to HA’s
• Advising developers on best price for their social housing
• Social housing viabilities
Consulting • Financial viabilities and reports for residential planning applications
• Meeting design standards for social housing
• Funding structures for developments
• Compulsory Purchase Order consultation and implementation
Sites Wanted Like This
4
Bethnal Green
Or This
The Westminster Pub - Pimlico
5
Tufnell Park
St Johns Wood
To Turn Into This
6
Junction Road Tufnell Park
To Turn Into This
7
Development Advice Consultancy
8
Brought in to make
the social housing
work on a conversion
of a clothing factory
with planning for 45
flats we sorted the
social housing &
doubled the density
And made this a landmark development in Archway.
Elthorne Road Archway 9
Regeneration Consultant to Barnet Council
10
To Turn Into This
Evolution Stanmore 11
28 April 2013 12
Site Finding
I have clients actively looking for development opportunities in:
• Central London – existing hotels or sites for hotels – 80 to 120 keys
• Shoreditch to Stratford – commercial buildings for change of use
• London & Home Counties – large sites with or without planning
• Barnet, Enfield & Islington – plots or buildings for 5 to 50 residential
• London W & SW postcodes – single apartments or buildings
• North East London & Essex – sites for 15 to 75 residential
Just a few of my clients
28 April 2013 14
Consulting – S106 legal Agreements
Tufnell Park - Islington
Reduced 50% to
0% affordable
housing on appeal
Archway – Islington
We renegotiated an old S106 to make this
viable and increase the developers profit
on this landmark development in.
Croydon – Successfully reduced
affordable housing planning
obligation for private developer.
Enfield – we recently
saved our client over
£72,000 by
negotiating the S106
on their behalf.
Holiday
Homes for
Sale
Greece
The Greek
Islands
Cyprus
Turkey
Investors Wanted
Caribbean Investment
From £155,000
to £1,225,000
Ideal for SIPP
What to listen out for
• “I want to retire but don’t know what to do with my business premises”
• “I have this rambling old house in a posh part of town and I want to move”
• “I can’t find a decent site / property to develop”
• “Planners want me to virtually give away half of my development to affordable”
• “Planners want me to pay £xxx for affordable just to get consent”
• “I want to buy a holiday home in the sun”
A Good Referral For Me
■ Developer
■ House Builder
■ Architect
■ Surveyor
■ Planning Consultant
■ Insolvency Practitioner
■ Solicitor
■ Probate
■ Or an Investor

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Adam Roberts Consultancy - Property Development Services

  • 1. Saving Residential Developers Money April 2013 Denny Adam BA Hons MCIH Land & Property Development Consultant www.adamrobertsltd.co.uk Bringing the Landed to the Gentry
  • 2. My Background ■ Worked in sales from leaving school ■ Started Humanities degree as mature student in 1976 at Hatfield Poly ■ Students need somewhere to live so started a Housing Co-operative ■ Graduated and took sabbatical as student union president ■ First housing job in Property and Tenancy Management ■ Moved into Social Housing Development ■ Joined Barratt Homes 1989 ■ Joined New Age Homes in 1990 as Development Director ■ In 1998 started land and property consultancy company Adam Roberts Consultancy Ltd
  • 3. 3 What do we do? What How Site Finding • Identify off market opportunities for developer and RSL clients • Carry out detailed searches to identify potential development sites • Speaking with business owners looking to move, retire or sell up • Creating links with solicitors, insolvency practitioners and architects • Asking all contacts to introduce me to building owners looking to sell Social Housing • Working with Housing Associations to develop new sites • Local Authority Regeneration schemes • Partnering with developers to sell their affordable to HA’s • Advising developers on best price for their social housing • Social housing viabilities Consulting • Financial viabilities and reports for residential planning applications • Meeting design standards for social housing • Funding structures for developments • Compulsory Purchase Order consultation and implementation
  • 4. Sites Wanted Like This 4 Bethnal Green
  • 5. Or This The Westminster Pub - Pimlico 5 Tufnell Park St Johns Wood
  • 6. To Turn Into This 6 Junction Road Tufnell Park
  • 7. To Turn Into This 7
  • 8. Development Advice Consultancy 8 Brought in to make the social housing work on a conversion of a clothing factory with planning for 45 flats we sorted the social housing & doubled the density
  • 9. And made this a landmark development in Archway. Elthorne Road Archway 9
  • 10. Regeneration Consultant to Barnet Council 10
  • 11. To Turn Into This Evolution Stanmore 11
  • 12. 28 April 2013 12 Site Finding I have clients actively looking for development opportunities in: • Central London – existing hotels or sites for hotels – 80 to 120 keys • Shoreditch to Stratford – commercial buildings for change of use • London & Home Counties – large sites with or without planning • Barnet, Enfield & Islington – plots or buildings for 5 to 50 residential • London W & SW postcodes – single apartments or buildings • North East London & Essex – sites for 15 to 75 residential
  • 13. Just a few of my clients
  • 14. 28 April 2013 14 Consulting – S106 legal Agreements Tufnell Park - Islington Reduced 50% to 0% affordable housing on appeal Archway – Islington We renegotiated an old S106 to make this viable and increase the developers profit on this landmark development in. Croydon – Successfully reduced affordable housing planning obligation for private developer. Enfield – we recently saved our client over £72,000 by negotiating the S106 on their behalf.
  • 16. Caribbean Investment From £155,000 to £1,225,000 Ideal for SIPP
  • 17. What to listen out for • “I want to retire but don’t know what to do with my business premises” • “I have this rambling old house in a posh part of town and I want to move” • “I can’t find a decent site / property to develop” • “Planners want me to virtually give away half of my development to affordable” • “Planners want me to pay £xxx for affordable just to get consent” • “I want to buy a holiday home in the sun”
  • 18. A Good Referral For Me ■ Developer ■ House Builder ■ Architect ■ Surveyor ■ Planning Consultant ■ Insolvency Practitioner ■ Solicitor ■ Probate ■ Or an Investor