WELCOME TO LAND CONSULT

Land Consult LLP are market facing niche development land agents owned and run by Mark Budden and James Shelley. With more than 45 years’ collective experience of dealing with development land in the south of England and beyond, we hold the appropriate professional planning and surveying qualifications and have been responsible for hundreds of millions of pounds worth of land transactions on behalf of landowner clients, public sector clients and developer clients, landed estates as well as Registered Charities and corporate occupiers.

Land for residential or commercial development is a scarce and valuable resource in Southern England. It is essential to bring market knowledge and professional expertise to bear when dealing with land.

The complexity of the development process, from site identification to scheme realisation, has increased dramatically in recent years. Securing valuable planning consents for development land is time consuming, expensive, competitive (with other sites) and requires a high level of skill and experience given the ever-changing planning system.

It is now, more than ever before, vital to bring the appropriate experience, market knowledge and expertise to bear if the value of land assets are to be maximised. A thorough understanding of the planning policy framework and development control process, development appraisal, valuation, market trends, construction costs and developer requirements, are all essential if the right decisions are to be made to maximise land value.

Every year we carry out sales and acquisitions of sites from short term consented land to long term strategic options / promotional agreements; deliver development consultancy advice to both public & private sector clients to optimise value as well as conduct hundreds of millions of pounds worth of development appraisals and price determinations of land held under options. These skills comprise our core business.

Over the last 5 years, we have been directly involved with in excess of £1 billion pounds worth of residential development land sales and acquisitions – sufficient land for more than 9,000 dwellings.

If you are a landowner with land or property assets that have (re)development potential and require comprehensive, professional & commercial advice to assist with your evaluation of the available options, we can help.

JAMES SHELLEY – Partner

BSc (HONS) Real Estate Management
Member of the RICS & Registered Valuer

t: 01962 600 185
m: 07785 741 307
e: james@land-consult.com

James focuses on short, medium and long term strategic projects advising numerous clients including Executors, Trustees, institutions, private & public landowners & charities.

James has over 20 years’ experience in all aspects of residential development agency including both land disposals and acquisitions as well as consultancy advice, development appraisals & feasibilities, valuation advisory, affordable housing consultancy & strategic land advice.

James regularly advises clients working with accountants, lawyers and tax advisors on conditional contracts, on optimum strategies including option / promotional agreements, development appraisals and price determinations seeking to optimise the planning and exit strategy and capital receipts for the clients post planning.

James has assisted in a number of large strategic schemes including two garden villages in recent years and focuses on 5 year housing land supply deficits where local authorities are not meeting their housing requirements.

MARK BUDDEN – Partner

BA(Hons) Urban & Regional Planning
Member of the RTPI

t: 01962 600 184
m: 07764 208 368
e: mark@land-consult.com

Mark advises land owners and developers throughout the Region as to the means by which the value of their property assets can be maximised through Development or Redevelopment.

He has arranged hundreds of millions of pounds worth of sales by way of medium and long term Options and Promotion Agreements as well as shorter term conditional and unconditional contracts – with and without the benefit of Planning Permission. Mark’s clients include Landowners, Property Companies, House Builders, Institutions & Registered Charities. Mark is a strong team player working effectively with clients other advisors – typically Planning Consultants, Solicitors and Accountants to deliver the optimum outcome for clients.

Mark has over thirty-five years’ experience, primarily in relation to residential development land, including land at all stages of the development cycle. He offers agency services and development consultancy including development appraisal, valuation, sales and acquisitions and advice on conditional contracts, options to purchase and hybrid promotional/option agreements.

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