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Specialist development advice that stands up to scrutiny.

We offer focused professional advice across viability, valuation and expert witness work—helping landowners, developers and investors make informed decisions on residential and mixed-use schemes. 

Our work supports planning applications, appeals, site acquisitions and funding strategies. We’ll assess feasibility, challenge assumptions, and present evidence-based advice that reflects both policy requirements and market reality. 

Whether you're negotiating planning, defending a position at inquiry, or appraising a new site, our team will provide the clarity you need—working closely with our Planning and Land & Development consultants for joined-up insight. 

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Strategic Land

Tailored promotion strategies that maximise returns.

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Residential Development - Immediate Agency

Expert advice for every stage of your residential scheme.

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Development Management

Unlocking land value with expert advice, proactive thinking and delivery-focused support.

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Mixed Use Development

Reimagining cities through sustainable, cutting-edge developments

Meet our trusted experts

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Mark Buddle

Partner, Head of Land & Development

Mark leads our residential development work and oversees a total strategic landbank for our clients which rarely dips below 100,000 plots.

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Neil Kelly

Partner, Head of Land & Development

With over 20 years’ experience in the development industry, Neil jointly leads our Land & Development team, advising on some of the most complex land and planning projects in the UK.

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Andy Haynes

Partner, Head of Professional Services, Land & Development

Andrew works with landowners and developers to help turn proposals into reality, advising on viability and delivery of residential and mixed-use projects.

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Hannah Beamish

Partner, Head of Land & Development - Eastern

Hannah leads our eastern region, having nearly 20 years’ of experience of working in the land and development industry.

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Cambridge Science Park

Trinity College embraced the emerging science park concept in 1970 by developing buildings exclusively for research on farmland it owned on the northern edge of Cambridge. This science-first ethos lives on today in the 21st century park’s collaborative community of world-beating research companies.

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Abcam

Abcam supplies two thirds of the world's life scientists with the biological tools required for research, which means they need specialist laboratories.

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CB1

Ambitious developer Brookgate set out to transform Cambridge’s fading train station area by delivering Lord Roger’s visionary 1.6m sq ft CB1 master plan. They needed more than just a team of consultants.

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Botanic Place, Cambridge

The client’s initial objective was to assemble the whole of the Botanic Place site whilst maintaining an acceptable income return.

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City Park West, Chelmsford

The site of the former Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford, this project was a rare opportunity to repurpose a brownfield site in a prominent location. Close to the railway station, park and central facilities of Chelmsford, the site would create a new gateway to the city.

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Dunsfold Park

Steeped in the history of aviation and motorsport, the pioneering spirit of the Dunsfold Aerodrome site lives on in this highly sustainable new development comprising 270,000 sq ft (25,000 sq m) of employment space and garden village of up to 2,600-homes, known as Dunsfold Park.

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Eddington

Taking on the largest real estate project in the university’s history was never simply about the numbers. To continue attracting the world’s best students, the 800-year-old institution knew it had to overcome Cambridge’s housing shortage by taking matters into its own hands.

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