The Henry Stewart Master Class Briefing
Maximising Site Value in the Process of Winning Planning Consents

 

Chair

David Birchall
Managing Director
Centex Strategic Land

Speakers

Rick de Blaby
Chief Executive
MEPC

Steve Clark
Head of Planning & Public Protection
London Borough of Merton

Mervyn Dobson
Partner
Pegasus Planning Group

Roger Hepher
Senior Director
Hepher Dixon

Nicky Linihan-Mardon
Planning & Transport Policy Manager
West Berkshire Council

Nick de Lotbiniere
Senior Partner
The London Planning Practice

Graham Loveland
Assistant Director (Planning)
London Borough of Islington

Ian Tant
Joint Senior Partner
The Barton Willmore Planning Partnership

Peter Weatherhead
Director and Head of Planning
DTZ Pieda Consulting

Ashford, Kent – Major Town Extension Proposal of 1100 Houses, Business Park and District Centre
• Negotiating the land use mix to extract value
• Transportation issues – infrastructure fund for new motorway junction and green travel measures
• Mixed use development and commitment to employment
• District centre and size of anchor store
• Appropriate densities
• Enquiry by design consultation process
• Emerging development framework with differing proposals potentially threatening the development

Eagle Centre, Derby – Major City Centre Retail Development Proposal of 65,000 Square Metres
• Delivery of major scheme on non-allocated site
• Protectionism towards Council’s preferred site
• Appropriate uses
• Impact and city centre retail issues
• Parking and transportation issues
• Site assembly CPO based on regeneration benefits

City of Westminster – Mixed Use Scheme with a Superstore, a Tall Building and Residential – Affordable Housing
• Maximising the density of the development
• Introducing a tall building in an area not allocated for such purpose
• Negotiating the best affordable housing deal
• Reducing the burden of s106 costs

London Borough of Newham – Mixed Use Scheme Involving Both Industry and Retail
• Integration of industrial and residential uses to maximise site value
• Negotiating off-site affordable housing to ensure higher investment value
• Creating vaue through a masterplan approach; how to deal with the individual site
• Using the GLA toolkit to negotiate affordable housing
• Negotiating the best deal on s106 provisions
• Meeting renewable energy requirements
- implications of the Mayor’s new (2004) policy

Merton Abbey Mills – from Paper Mill to Modern Mixed Use. The Case Study will Address the Following Issues:
• Financial overcommitment by developer
• Site classification as schedule ancient monument
• Presence of overhead power lines
• Higher densities and reduced parking to raise value
• Developer’s co-operation to ensure successful approach to public involvement
- pre-application consultation
- acceptance of local authority advice!

Relocation of a Governmental Organisation to New Headquarters and the Disposal of Vacated Sites
The key sites here were ‘owner occupied’: the development provided a major opportunity for town centre redevelopment.
• Scale of employment growth and housing pressures
• Transport issues
• Community issues
• Political ’kudos’ and the attractions of winning the organisation
• Maximising the redevelopment potential of surplus sites
• The involvement of several local authorities
• Environmental issues on undisturbed sites (listed building, ‘veteran trees’, bats and other wildlife)

Relocation of Major Football Club
• Commercial/residential ‘enabling’ development
• Transport accessibility and modal split
• Reconciling a major spectator facility and other land uses
• Potential of football stadium to become a regeneration catalyst, raising land values in the area
• Balancing commercial viability and planning acceptability
• Balancing local views and wider interest

Relocation of a Major Employer, From Multiple Sites in a Town to a New Edge-of-Town Site
• Optimising the use of the new site
• Needs of a business arising out of step with Development Plan processes
• Planning policy issues regarding development of greenfield site
• Implications for economy of town and area of relocation – or failure to relocate
• Housing pressures
• Transport pressures – green travel plans and car parking provision
• Community involvement and the political dimension
• Referral to Government Office

Quedgeley, Gloucester - Contribution of redevelopment of ex-MOD site to urban renaissance of Gloucester
• Site identified in structure plan as strategic housing location
• Brownfield/greenfield definitions
• Extent of mixed uses, ie sustainability credentials
• Effect on city centre redevelopment: PPG3
• Effect of adjoining greenfield land releases: PPG3
• Co-ordinating plan preparation across administrative boundaries
• The effect of green belt on peripheral expansion
• Affordable housing
• Infrastructure contributions
• Variations to the master plan: keep thinking even after consent!