Development Consultancy / Strategic Advice

Understanding the true potential of a development site and realising the latent value of existing premises/sites is a unique skill few possess. Many aspire to this skill set-few-if any deliver.

WHR have consistently provided pre-eminent advice to Funds, Property Companies, Joint Venture Partnerships, Local Authorities, Private investors In respect of:-

• Complex as well as straight forward site assembly
  – Predominantly within the City Centre as well as – 
  – Suburban Sites
• Development Appraisal/Viability Appraisal of Opportunities
• Site/Property Purchase
• Masterplanning of-
  – Business Parks and – 
  – Mixed use schemes.
• Procurement of implementable planning permissions.
• Selection and appointment of appropriate Joint Venture Partners.
• Selection and appointment of appropriate professional teams for the task in hand.
• Chair design team meetings and value engineering projects when appropriate.
• Define the correct level of specification for "new build" and "refurbishment" opportunities. WHR does not "over specify"
• Critique the competition , ensuring clients projects are superior to the "market" competition.
• Market analysis - understanding demand and supply - we do NOT regurgitate statistical data in a mumbo jumbo uneducated fashion.
• Comprehension of "Rights of Light" (Actionable and Injunctable) , Over sailing, and Party Wall Act issues and their commercial impact.
• A deep rooted understanding of the impact of "good" and "lacklustre" design" on "occupational" demand and "Fund/Investor demand.
• Pre-letting advice.
• if WHR don't believe in the commercial opportunity or if it isn't commercially viable -we will advise accordingly.