Development

Development Management & Value Creation Strategy

Overview

Doyen Partners advises clients on maximising the development potential of land. Our Development Management services are tailored to optimising the income, profitability and value of our client’s development projects. Land contains enormous untapped potential which often goes unrealised due to insufficient research, lack of imagination and poor execution.

The built environment is continually evolving with new technology, workplace and lifestyle changes and movements in market demand. Developers need to respond to meet changing demands of the market and capitalise on their investment.

Doyen Partners works with Developer clients to understand their investment objectives and establish the approach to be taken to maximise the development’s potential.

We undertake highest- and best-use studies and appraisals to model different options to evaluate the return on investment.

Our studies and appraisal comprise a multi-disciplinary exercise encompassing all aspects of the land and proposed construction, management, sales and leasing performance, statutory and legal compliance, market demand and planning.

Our approach

Our approach typically comprises:

Development Appraisal Analysis of highest- and best-use, market demands, site constraints and opportunities, planning, budgets, timeframes and risks with recommendation outlining the development identified as having the highest return on investment.

Development Strategy Plan for the design and delivery of the Development encompassing the design, planning, contractor appointment, construction. The strategy considers the financing, marketing, sales and leasing as relevant to the development.

Procurement Strategy Developing a procurement strategy outlining the procurement route to be adopted when considering the development objectives and Client’s risk profile, the types of Contractors to be appointed, when and under what forms of contract as well as the roles and responsibilities of the various parties.

Risk Management Managing risk throughout the development period which identifies all potential risks affecting the design and delivery of the development, so they can be mitigated or avoided altogether.

Building & Managing the Team A development project potentially requires a large multi-disciplinary professional team, Doyen Partners works with the Client to identify the best people to fulfil the various roles and manages their appointments. We manage and coordinate the activities of the professional team to develop the design and obtain the necessary permissions and approvals of local authorities.

Construction Management Managing the tendering and Contractor(s) appointment process, monitoring the works progress for quality and compliance and ensuring adherence with the contract and advising on changes if they arise.

On-going Appraisal Review Risks, opportunities and other challenges arise throughout the development process. Doyen Partners regularly reviews the baseline development appraisal to identify how changes to the base assumptions affects the investment performance of the scheme and advises on remedial actions accordingly.

Marketing, Sales and Leasing Doyen Partners will develop a strategy and manage the marketing, sales and leasing reconciled with key-milestones and the finance strategy.

Operations Doyen Partners will establish the property management structure for on-going operations of the completed development.

Representative projects

Eastwood Academy, Southend-on-Sea

We carried out a residual valuation of this 6-acre parcel of land comprising utility land inherited by the Client when

The Netherhall School, Cambridge

We carried out a residual valuation of this 7-acre parcel of land comprising school sports fields by evaluating a range

Travelodge, Sedgefield

We carried out a development appraisal of this 1.5-acre parcel of roadside land for a client, evaluating the likely gross

42 Hills Road, Cambridge

We advised our Client on the terms of the leasehold acquisition of this high street bookshop, which they wished to

Unit 28, The Arc Shopping Centre, Bury St Edmunds

We advised our Client on the terms of the leasehold acquisition of this shopping centre unit.

YMCA Trinity Group portfolio, Peterborough – Cambridge – Bury St Edmunds – Ipswich

Carried out Reinstatement Cost Assessments of our Client’s property portfolio across East Anglia. The portfolio included a theatre and retail

Harley Industrial Park, St Neots

Carried out an inspection of this industrial estate and produced a Schedule of Condition to be appended to a new

Warwick Racecourse

Carried out an inspection of Warwick Racecourse and produced a Schedule of Condition to be appended to a new lease.

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