Land-Led Development Consultants
Working with Registered Providers, Land Owners and Developers
The Government has recently backed calls for more affordable housing in the UK. There is a commitment to build 350,000 new homes each year. This includes Registered Providers building new homes.
The challenge today for developers is to:
- ascertain development viability and affordability
- maximise development economic potential
- consider the needs and aspirations of local communities
Development viability appraisals
Local community engagement
Market Research
Planning applications and appeals
Our experience in land and housing developments
Meeting housing needs and affordable development can be a fine balance. Catalyst Land Solutions is here to support you through each step of the process.
We have over forty years’ experience in land and housing development. With our support, your affordable housing development project will be in the safest hands.
Our expertise includes:
- Finding the right piece of land for your new development
- Thorough and diligent market research
- Viability appraisals
- Liaising with Local Authorities
- Planning applications
- Planning appeals
- Managing the tender process
- A tailored strategy
- Engaging sensitively and respectfully with all stakeholders
- Full-service project management
Project Management
Our hands-on approach has successfully reduced the impact of planning obligations and maximised the value of affordable housing provision to the benefit of all of our clients to date and our specialties include:
- Strategic land assembly and promotion
- Section 106 and viability negotiations
- Affordable housing, tender management and consultancy
- Employers Agent
- Clerk Of Works
- Quantity surveying
- Appointment and management of multi-disciplinary consultant teams
- Tender management and delivery
- Budget and financial administration of projects
- Site identification and disposal
- Stakeholder and community engagement
- Confidential portfolio management
How we work
Our watchword is ‘partnership’ – our team becomes your team, together we’ll unlock the full potential of your affordable housing development.
Here’s how we work:
We apply
- Innovative ‘out of the box’ strategies
- Flexibility
- Open and honest communication
- Our vast industry experience
- Expert knowledge
- Value for money
Keeping clients up to date
The development industry and land market is fast moving. Expectations and requirements change regularly. We consistently keep you updated as to how your projects might be affected by legislative changes.
Local community engagement
To ensure a successful outcome, effective engagement with local communities is essential.
Local authorities have a duty to listen to the opinions of a wide range of stakeholders, including local businesses and communities.
Positive engagement invariably gives the best chance of a successful outcome.
We’re experienced in encouraging all parties to understand the benefits of a new affordable housing development. This could be in terms of jobs opportunities or the attraction of wider investment.
Our approach is one of co-operation and transparency. Our pro-active approach enables us to spot potential areas of conflict issues before they arise.
Market research
Understanding the market is key to maximising the value of an asset. Our property development research and land development feasibility studies help developers to understand the true value of a tract of land.
Many factors contribute to the intrinsic value of land:
- geographical
- geological
- previous development history
- the ‘mood’ of local communities and authorities.
Understanding how these factors interplay will help you to gain a clearer picture of the true position of the market.
Planning applications and planning appeals
Whether to appeal – how to appeal
Our project management experience enables us to smooth the planning application process. We provide planning application guidance with clear timelines and project plans.
We also offer you planning appeal guidance. Appeals add to costs and time. Our knowledge of the appeals process enables us to judge and advise on whether and how to pursue an appeal.
This applies especially when there is the potential for cost awards in planning appeals – where one party to an appeal may have to pay another party’s costs.
What constitutes a successful land development outcome?
Speed and efficiency invariably come high on the list. If one side slows the process down, this soon leads to tension, conflict and delays – sometimes, the project can fail and break down altogether.
As a renowned land development agency, this is where we play a vital role.
We make sure that your project keeps moving forward on the right track.
Open and transparent communication
We’ll apply a thorough and diligent strategy to your land development projects. Our focus is to keep communication lines clear and transparent. We provide clear timescales and defined responsibilities for each stage of your project.
As a corporate member of the Association for Project Management (APM), the largest professional body of its kind in Europe, we maintain a pro-active, structured approach to project management. This helps ensure the economic viability of your project and faster, smoother outcomes.
Experienced land development agency delivering effective project management
We understand the land development processes. You need a structured, clearly defined approach. That’s exactly what we deliver. Of course, occasional unforeseen events and delays are inevitable. Our strategy ensures that these issues are quickly and efficiently overcome – protecting values and favourable outcomes whenever possible.
Planning with flexibility
At the start of a project, one of our first actions is to identify timelines. We then develop a comprehensive project plan, clarifying to different stakeholders what they need to complete when.
We also make sure that our project planning is flexible enough to evolve as requirements change; utilising Smartsheet, we can effectively collaborate and manage your project dynamically and in realtime
Portfolio management
We make every effort to understand your goals. We encourage you to define exactly what you want to achieve with your land and property portfolios.
A broad community-centered approach
As one of the UK’s premier land development agencies, our approach to land portfolio management is broad. We’ll help you to see opportunities that will not only benefit you economically, but will also help communities to develop and evolve.
We listen to how you want us to manage your land and property portfolio.
We keep you informed of options and conditions that will maximise your returns.
As circumstances change, we’ll help you to move quickly to take advantage of opportunity.
Our focus is to match your requirements with the best value of the land.
