Gerald Eve’s planning and development advisory business is one of the most respected in the UK. Consisting of more than 100 professionals operating nationally from London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, we are one of the only fully integrated planning and development teams in our industry.
Our team are advising on some of the most significant development proposals across the country, creating new standards for quality, placemaking and sustainability. Current instructions range from the delivery of innovative new housing models to major lab-enabled buildings for global leaders in life sciences and inventive re-purposing to major infrastructure projects.
In addition to our project experience, we are at the forefront of policy making, providing strategic planning advice to the London Property Alliance, British Property Federation, London First and the NLA. Our unrivalled knowledge of central and local government planning systems ensures our clients receive first class, impartial advice, and innovative, intelligent solutions to meet their objectives.
Our Team
Consisting of more than 100 professionals operating nationally, we are one of the only fully integrated planning and development teams in our industry.
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Our Experience
Our team have been involved in some of the most significant development proposals across the country, creating new standards.
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Our Insights
We are deeply involved in policy debate at national, regional and local levels and bring this knowledge and understand to all our projects.
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Our Approach
Our approach is agile, flexible, and adaptable to changing policy and legislation, based on detailed analysis and effective management of planning and development risk.
As one of the UK’s largest, and most genuinely fully-integrated planning and development team in the market, we are able to provide a combined multi-disciplinary service offering.
Offering a full range of town planning consultancy and development advisory services, and engaging with the wider policy debate, our team delivers demonstrable value at all stages of the development process.
Corporate Occupiers: We advise major corporates, providing advice on both expansion opportunities as well as securing change of use, consolidation and exit from brownfield sites.
Developers: We work with national mixed use developers, housebuilders and specialist/niche enterprises to help identify and optimise sites.
Government and Registered Providers: We partner with and advise numerous government departments, local authorities, public bodies and housing associations to ensure ‘best consideration’ and value for the public sector.
Land owning institutions and private wealth: We represent many significant landowners and Landed Estates, for whom we secure optimum planning permissions, often as part of Estate wide strategies.
Funds and Investors: We support fund managers to ensure their assets are optimised with appropriate short, medium and long-term strategies.
We can offer expert advice in;
- Acquisitions and Disposals
- Affordable Housing Consultancy
- Compulsory Purchase and Compensation
- Development Management
- Development Plan and Policy Advice
- Due Diligence Advice
- Estate Valuation and Portfolio Advice
- Financial Viability Advice
- Community Infrastructure Levy and Area Wide Assessments
- Government Contracts
- Expert Witness and Appeals
- Planning Applications
- Regeneration and Masterplanning
- Infrastructure Advisory
- Strategic Land
Case Studies
View all P&D case studiesSouthwark Underground Station
Development
Southwark OSD
The Challenge
We were asked to provide development management consultancy in the form of a Senior Development Manager (“Snr DM”) at TfL, at a critical pre-application point for TfL’s planned 200,000 sq. ft. (net) office-led over site development above Southwark Underground Station (“Southwark OSD”).
The Solution
Our Snr DM led various sub-teams in relation to land assembly; public relations with neighbouring affordable tenants and their representing Tenant Management Organisation (“TMO”); public relations with key political and local stakeholders; ongoing design development through RIBA Stages 1, 2, and part 3; co-ordinating the submission of the planning application; dealing with contract and procurement issues for all consultants; dealing with consultants invoices; internal (TfL) reporting; dealing with planned LU Station interventions using LU’s “Pathway” programme tool; navigating through a basic asset protection agreement (“BAPA”) with Network Rail who run the South Eastern rail line on the viaduct to the north of the site; a number of title regularisation matters; and the ongoing development strategy.
The Result
The office scheme is currently enabled for BREEAM Outstanding, Platinum Well Building accreditation, Wiredscore Platinum, and meets TfL’s highest key sustainability performance indicators (“KPI’s). The proposed office-led scheme is to be constructed using a hybrid steel and cross laminated timber (“CLT”) decked frame. Design and construction strategies are ongoing to deal with the use of CLT during construction and in an operational context, whilst being built above a fully functioning Zone 1 tube station.
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Development
2 Trafalgar Way
The Challenge
Bringing forward a viable development on this site which has lain vacant for many years following a previous permission for a BTR-led scheme which was never built out. Issues include re-providing the drive-thru McDonalds which previously occupied the site and is a legal requirement of any future development. Also finding a solution to access and pedestrian permeability, given this is an island site bound by busy roads on all sides. Situated in a gateway location to the north of Canary Wharf, landmark architecture was required to justify the proposal for very tall buildings.
The Solution
Working with Apt Architects, we have been leading consultation with Tower Hamlets Council officers and the Greater London Authority to bring forward a studenthousing led development on this site. The scheme, comprising distinctive towers, acts as a mediator between the clusters of Canary Wharf and Blackwall / New Providence Wharf. In partnership with UCL, 35% of the student rooms will meet the London Plan policies in relation to provision of affordable student accommodation.
The development also includes new office space and incubator units, as well as ground floor retail uses (including the re-provided McDonalds drive-thru) to activate the newly created public realm. The scheme design includes major upgrades to the pedestrian permeability across Trafalgar Way with ‘table-topping’ and two pedestrian crossings. With the ambition to deliver the most sustainable large-scale student housing scheme in the world with ultra-low carbon operational performance, Urbanest has adopted the Passivhaus approach to building design.
The Results
The scheme will bring forward a world class, highly sustainable development within three landmark buildings of 46, 36 and 28 storeys providing almost 1,700 student bedrooms, 68 new homes proposed for university staff and their families, workspace, retail and significant public realm improvements.
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