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Developer-Led Housing

We help SME developers and landowners turn sites into viable, well-designed homes. As a CIAT-chartered practice, we blend design quality, planning strategy and buildability—so you get approvals that stack up and a scheme that’s efficient to deliver.

We use the RIBA Plan of Work as a guide, but every site is different. We adapt our process to suit your targets, programme and exit strategy.

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What we do for developers

  • Unlock value: optimise density, unit mix and net saleable area (NSA) without over-complicating the build.

  • De-risk planning: clear design rationale, early consultee engagement, robust statements and drawings.

  • Improve viability: fabric-first solutions, efficient spans, repeatable details and sensible specs.

  • Design to deliver: coordinated information that contractors and lenders trust.

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Typical outcomes

  • Yield studies that show realistic unit counts and NSA/GIA ratios

  • Preferred concept agreed with early cost checks

  • Smooth planning with fewer late surprises

  • Technical packages ready for pricing and Building Regulations

Our Approach

1) Site & Viability Appraisal

Rapid desktop review + constraints/opportunities plan, density tests, access/parking, drainage clues, heritage/trees, topographical needs, and go/no-go advice with indicative costs/GDV assumptions (yours or QS).

Deliverables: Appraisal note, yield options, outline programme.

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2) Concept & Pre-App

Layout/massing options, streetscene, character and materials. Optional pre-application to test planning risk and local priorities (design, amenity, parking, ecology, landscape).

Deliverables: Concept pack, visuals, headline sustainability strategy.

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3) Planning Design

Refined site layout, house/apartment types, elevations and materials. We coordinate inputs (highways, ecology/BNG, drainage/SuDS, trees, heritage, noise, energy/overheating) and prepare the Planning Set and statements.

Deliverables: Planning drawings, Design & Access Statement, coordination with consultants.

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4) Technical & Building Regulations

Buildable information with performance specs. Details that balance cost, programme and quality (structure, spans, brickwork rules, MMC-friendly grids where appropriate). We prepare the Building Regulations submission and a tenderable package.

Deliverables: GA/sections/details, schedules/specs, compliance notes.

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5) Tender, Construction & Handover

Support procurement, respond to RFIs, review samples, inspect quality and manage changes where appointed for Contract Administration.

Deliverables: Clarifications, site reports, certifications (if CA role appointed).

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Services for Housing Developers

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  • Site finding & feasibility (density studies, capacity testing)

  • Design for outline or full planning

  • Reserved matters / discharge of conditions

  • Heritage & design rationale (townscape, streetscene)

  • Sustainability & energy strategy (fabric-first; coordinate SAP/overheating)

  • Drainage/SuDS & flood coordination

  • Ecology & Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) strategy (where required)

  • Highways/parking & access design

  • Technical design & Building Regulations

  • Landlord/utility coordination

  • Tender support & Contract Administration (JCT)

  • 3D visuals & sales plans

Project types we support

  • Infill and small-to-medium sites (2–50+ homes)

  • Brownfield and change-of-use conversions

  • Edge-of-settlement and village infill

  • Mixed-use with ground-floor commercial

  • Phased sites and masterplan parcels

Why developers choose us

  • Commercial sense: layouts that sell, details that build.

  • Planning literacy: clear narratives that address local policy and neighbour amenity.

  • Coordination leadership: we brief and align the wider team so nothing critical falls between disciplines.

  • South Devon context: coastal, conservation and landscape sensitivities handled with care.

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