Find out more about the services we offer to the residential development industry.

1. Saving Residential Developers Money
April 2013
Denny Adam BA Hons MCIH
Land & Property Development Consultant
www.adamrobertsltd.co.uk
Bringing the Landed to the Gentry

2. My Background
■ Worked in sales from leaving school
■ Started Humanities degree as mature student in 1976 at Hatfield Poly
■ Students need somewhere to live so started a Housing Co-operative
■ Graduated and took sabbatical as student union president
■ First housing job in Property and Tenancy Management
■ Moved into Social Housing Development
■ Joined Barratt Homes 1989
■ Joined New Age Homes in 1990 as Development Director
■ In 1998 started land and property consultancy company Adam Roberts
Consultancy Ltd

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What do we do?
What How
Site Finding • Identify off market opportunities for developer and RSL clients
• Carry out detailed searches to identify potential development sites
• Speaking with business owners looking to move, retire or sell up
• Creating links with solicitors, insolvency practitioners and architects
• Asking all contacts to introduce me to building owners looking to sell
Social Housing • Working with Housing Associations to develop new sites
• Local Authority Regeneration schemes
• Partnering with developers to sell their affordable to HA’s
• Advising developers on best price for their social housing
• Social housing viabilities
Consulting • Financial viabilities and reports for residential planning applications
• Meeting design standards for social housing
• Funding structures for developments
• Compulsory Purchase Order consultation and implementation

4. Sites Wanted Like This
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Bethnal Green

5. Or This
The Westminster Pub - Pimlico
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Tufnell Park
St Johns Wood

6. To Turn Into This
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Junction Road Tufnell Park

7. To Turn Into This
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8. Development Advice Consultancy
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Brought in to make
the social housing
work on a conversion
of a clothing factory
with planning for 45
flats we sorted the
social housing &
doubled the density

9. And made this a landmark development in Archway.
Elthorne Road Archway 9

10. Regeneration Consultant to Barnet Council
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11. To Turn Into This
Evolution Stanmore 11

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Site Finding
I have clients actively looking for development opportunities in:
• Central London – existing hotels or sites for hotels – 80 to 120 keys
• Shoreditch to Stratford – commercial buildings for change of use
• London & Home Counties – large sites with or without planning
• Barnet, Enfield & Islington – plots or buildings for 5 to 50 residential
• London W & SW postcodes – single apartments or buildings
• North East London & Essex – sites for 15 to 75 residential

13. Just a few of my clients

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Consulting – S106 legal Agreements
Tufnell Park - Islington
Reduced 50% to
0% affordable
housing on appeal
Archway – Islington
We renegotiated an old S106 to make this
viable and increase the developers profit
on this landmark development in.
Croydon – Successfully reduced
affordable housing planning
obligation for private developer.
Enfield – we recently
saved our client over
£72,000 by
negotiating the S106
on their behalf.

15. Holiday
Homes for
Sale
Greece
The Greek
Islands
Cyprus
Turkey
Investors Wanted

16. Caribbean Investment
From £155,000
to £1,225,000
Ideal for SIPP

17. What to listen out for
• “I want to retire but don’t know what to do with my business premises”
• “I have this rambling old house in a posh part of town and I want to move”
• “I can’t find a decent site / property to develop”
• “Planners want me to virtually give away half of my development to affordable”
• “Planners want me to pay £xxx for affordable just to get consent”
• “I want to buy a holiday home in the sun”

18. A Good Referral For Me
■ Developer
■ House Builder
■ Architect
■ Surveyor
■ Planning Consultant
■ Insolvency Practitioner
■ Solicitor
■ Probate
■ Or an Investor