Find out how we can work for you to acquire development sites and get through the planning process with as little pain as possible.

1. Denny Adam BA Hons MCIH
Land & Property Development Consultant
Bringing the Landed to the Gentry
BNI Exchange 17th January 2013
www.adamrobertsltd.co.uk

2. My Background
■ Aged 16 – Apprentice mono-caster in the print trade
■ Aged 16 3/4 – Back to school to do A levels
■ Aged 18 – Long hot summer so sold ice cream
■ Aged 26 – Very long hot summer, gave up work, lay on beach
■ Started Humanities degree at Hatfield Poly
■ Students need somewhere to live so started a Housing Co-operative
■ Graduated and worked in Housing Management
■ Moved into Social Housing Development
■ Joined Barratt Homes, then New Age Homes as Development Director
■ In 1998 started own consultancy company

3. What do we do?
What How
Site Finding • Identify off market opportunities for developer and RSL clients
• Carry out detailed searches on the ground 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 BNI members to introduce me to building owners
Social Housing • Working with Housing Associations to develop new sites
• Partnering with developers to sell their affordable to HA’s
• Advising developers on best deals with HA’s
• Social housing viabilities
Consulting • Planning advice on development
• Three Dragon modelling for planning applications
• Meeting standards for social housing
• Funding structures for developments
• Compulsory Purchase Orders
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4. Sites Wanted Like This
Bethnal Green
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5. Or This
Tufnell Park
The Westminster Pub - Pimlico
St Johns Wood
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6. To Turn Into This
Junction Road Tufnell Park
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7. To Turn Into This
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8. Development Advice Consultancy
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
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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

12. 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
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13. Just a few of my clients

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

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

16. 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”

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