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Development Viability

Commercial development guidance at every step

Our Development Viability team cuts through complexity to unlock development potential. With over 25 years of experience, we deliver clear and robust advice on S106 obligations, affordable housing and CIL – helping you protect value, manage risk and most importantly ensure schemes are deliverable. 

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Personalised expertise for your development journey

Our Development Viability experts are an integral part of the Valuation function at BNP Paribas Real Estate and Strutt & Parker. As part of a multidisciplinary firm, we bring together the rigour of registered valuers with the practical insight of experts working across the full spectrum of property development. We combine formal RICS valuation expertise with hands-on experience in land agency, development consultancy, and residential sales. This breadth of knowledge gives us genuine, real-time insights into the dynamics of residential property development and varying markets, enabling us to provide advice that is both technically sound and commercially grounded. 

What sets us apart is our combination of national coverage with regional expertise. Drawing on our extensive network of local offices, we access real-time intelligence on land values, build costs, market sentiment, and comparable transactions. This on-the-ground knowledge enables development viability assessments that reflect current market conditions - insights that purely desktop-based advisors cannot replicate. Whether appraising a complex urban regeneration scheme or a consented rural site, our approach is rooted in current and credible market evidence. 

As registered valuers, we provide more than just advice; we offer accountability. Our Development Viability appraisals are independently defensible, professionally underwritten, and designed to withstand scrutiny at every state of the planning process. This gives confidences for all stakeholders, including private clients, developers, and local authorities. 

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  • 150+ years of UK property experience

  • 50 offices across the UK

  • Signatory of the Real Estate Balance CEO Commitments to Diversity

  • 4,000+ real estate experts with presence in 30 offices

Featured Services

Viability Appraisals 

We support developers, local authorities, and landowners, by preparing and reviewing financial viability assessments to establish the maximum reasonable proportion of affordable housing alongside wider planning policy requirements.

S106 Negotiation

We provide expert guidance across the negotiation of Section 106 agreements, including affordable housing provision and early, mid, and late-stage review clauses. 

Conservation Deficit Financial Appraisals

Our extensive experience spans working with specialist heritage developers, mainstream house builders and local planning authorities to establish the need for enabling development to resolve conservation deficits associated with heritage assets. 

Option Appraisals

We provide provide clear, commercially grounded advice to help clients assess the viability of multiple development options for their sites, including staff accommodation transfer, redevelopment strategies, and wider estate regeneration opportunities.

Garden Community Viability

We deliver specialist advice to promoters, landowners and local authorities on the viability and deliverability of large-scale masterplans and new garden communities – from early-stage feasibility through to planning submission.  Our appraisals address complex infrastructure phasing, cross-subsidy modelling and long-term growth assumptions that define these schemes.  With garden communities central to the government’s housing delivery agenda, our assessments ensure proposals remain robust and deliverable within the evolving housing agenda.

Disposal & Acquisition of S106 Affordable Housing

We advise developers on the marketing and disposal of affordable housing secured through Section 106 agreements to ensure optimum value. Early-stage input during the planning application process ensures affordable housing is well-positioned to generate strong interest from the Registered Provider sector.

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Steven Pozerskis
Director - Valuation
+44 01483 944 036
Tim Mitford-Slade
Senior Director - Valuation
+44 1227 806 936
David Couch
Senior Director - Valuation
+44 01182 172 167
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