Denny Adam BA Hons MCIH

Bringing the landed to the gentry

My Background

• Aged 16 – Apprentice mono-caster in the print trade• Aged 18 – Long hot summer selling ice cream• Aged 26 – Very long hot summer - gave up work and lay on beach• Started Humanities degree at Hatfield Poly• Students needed 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 Adam Roberts

What do we do?Site Acquisitions Social Housing Consulting

• Identify off market sites inc. residential, commercial, hotel etc.

• Speaking with business owners looking to move/sell/retire or die

• Creating links with other professionals e.g. architects

• Delivering sites for development/refurbishment/reclassification etc.

• Working with Housing Associations on developing sites

• Partnering with developers to sell their affordable units to HA’s

• Affordable housing viability reports for developers/individuals seeking planning permission

• Planning advice• Compulsory Purchase

Orders• Funding structures for

developments• Interim and Project

Managements for private/affordable/social housing projects

Sites like this…

…Can become this

Sites like this…

Can become this…

West Croydon

• Existing car wash and garage operation • 1 minute from West Croydon train station and Tramlink• Round the corner from the new Croydon Westfield shopping centre• Planners have indicated they would accept a development of around

224 residential apartments with ground floor retail• There is already interest from a national supermarket chain• Alternatively – a hotel• Asking price - £21,000,000

Development and Consultancy Expertise in Action

The owners of this clothing factory in Archway wanted to close down and convert into 45 flats…

I was brought in as an affordable housing consultant. Firstly, I doubled the density for the development, providing more flats for both private and affordable models. Then I liaised with housing associations to dispose of the affordable on site.

Regeneration consultant to Barnet Council

S106 AgreementsWhat are they?Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 sets out requirements for developers to contribute towards affordable housing either through providing units on site, units off site or a cash contribution. The requirements vary borough to borough and are constantly being updated. What can I do about it?Sometimes, once you’ve got all your quotes in for the work, these requirements can make a development unviable. We compile all your quotes, write a specialist report to submit with your planning application and negotiate with councils to try and reduce your affordable housing contribution.

S106 Successes

Tufnell Park, Islington –

reduction from 50%

affordable housing to 0%

Archway, Islington –

renegotiation of an old S106

to create a viable

development

Enfield – we saved our client

£72,000 by negotiation the

S106 for them

Sevenoaks, Kent – reduced

affordable housing contribution

on a listed building conversion

from £300k to £0

Referrals

• High Net Worth Individuals looking to invest/expand their portfolios• Sovereign Wealth Funds• Private developers• Housing Associations• Hotel Developers / Operators• Individuals looking to extend / convert / sell their properties• Architects• Planning consultants• Quantity Surveyors

Questions

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