The right scheme, funded the right way, delivered without surprises.
Most development risk is decided early, in the appraisal, the structure, and the plan, long before a spade is in the ground. Yet these are the moments when owners have the least independent counsel and the most pressure to move quickly.
I work alongside you and your existing team as an independent voice: pressure-testing the numbers, shaping the strategy, and staying close through delivery so that cost, programme, and quality hold from first appraisal to final exit. The goal is never activity for its own sake. It is a finished asset that stands up commercially.
End-to-end counsel across the development lifecycle.
Feasibility & Appraisal
Establishing whether a scheme stacks up before capital is committed: site analysis, highest-and-best-use, development appraisals, and sensitivity modelling that surface the real risks and returns.
Planning & Design Strategy
Shaping the scheme and the route to consent, balancing what the site can carry, what the market wants, and what will be granted, to maximise consentable value while managing planning risk.
Funding & Capital Structure
Structuring development finance, equity, and joint ventures, preparing the scheme and the numbers to secure the right capital, on the right terms, from the right partners.
Procurement & Delivery Oversight
Selecting the right contract and team, then providing independent oversight through delivery so that cost, programme, and quality stay on track and issues are caught early.
Repositioning & Value-Add
For existing assets: refurbishment, conversion, and change-of-use strategies that unlock latent value from what you already hold, without over-capitalising.
Exit & Realisation
Planning the exit from the outset (sale, refinance, or hold) so that every earlier decision on design, funding, and delivery serves the outcome you actually want.
Appraise. Structure. De-risk. Deliver. Realise.
Appraise
Test the scheme's viability with honest numbers.
Structure
Set the funding, ownership, and delivery model.
De-risk
Resolve planning, design, and cost risk early.
Deliver
Oversee build to protect cost, time, and quality.
Realise
Execute the exit the scheme was built for.
A scheme that said "no" at first pass.
A residential-led mixed-use site came to first appraisal marginally unviable: the numbers did not support the owner's ambitions for it.
Rather than walk away, I restructured the massing to a more consentable and marketable mix, reworked the funding around a joint-venture partner, and phased delivery to ease the cash position. Independent oversight then held the programme through build.
An unviable site became a delivered, income-producing asset, on a funding structure the owner retained control of.
Independent counsel, alongside your team.
Property ownersHolding land or standing assets with latent development or repositioning value.
Investors & fundsUnderwriting a development play and wanting an independent read on the risk.
DevelopersSeeking a senior, independent voice alongside an existing project team.
Family officesAllocating to development, often for the first time, and wanting it done well.
Have a site in mind?
Every engagement begins with a private conversation, at no cost. Tell me about the scheme and I'll tell you, honestly, whether and how I can help.