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The move from planning permission to delivery on site is where a strategy proves its value.
Nearly 95% of our Development Partner Team have previously worked for a property developer or housebuilder, so they understand development from every side of the table. That experience is what lets us take a scheme from planning consent through to delivery on our clients’ behalf. Clients get one delivery team that knows what their scheme needs to succeed, from discharging conditions and securing approvals to delivering infrastructure and handing over serviced land.
Once consent is secured, attention turns to infrastructure, technical approvals, land disposals and the handover of serviced land to housebuilders. Within our Development Partner service, we provide strategic, client-side oversight of this stage, making sure infrastructure comes forward in step with the wider development. Where clients need hands-on project management, procurement and construction management, our Project Delivery & Management specialists carry out that work within the strategy we have set.
Why Choose Brookbanks for Delivery & Implementation
On major development and regeneration schemes, we can take delegated responsibility as Master Developer for coordinating and delivering the physical and social infrastructure a development relies on. Our specialists have led road and infrastructure implementation on new communities, so we understand how delivery decisions affect programme, cost and land value.
Key Client Benefits
- Faster delivery programmes: We plan infrastructure around the development’s phasing and commercial priorities, and resolve approvals and utility connections early. This brings serviced parcels to market sooner and gets community facilities in place earlier.
- Lower delivery risk: We identify technical, approval and contractor risks early and manage them actively, so they don’t hold up the programme or add cost.
- Better stakeholder management: A single client-side lead manages consultants, contractors, utilities providers, highway authorities and local councils, so every party works to the same programme.
- Stronger cost certainty: We challenge contractor and utility costs, manage Section 106 and Section 278 obligations, and track spending against the agreed budget, so clients have a reliable view of their infrastructure costs.
- Higher land value: We prepare land parcels with services in place, ready for sale or construction. We protect the quality of the place as infrastructure is delivered, which helps support land values.
Specialist Services
Infrastructure Implementation Delivery
Infrastructure and utilities strongly influence development value, phasing and programme. Building on the infrastructure strategy, our specialists lead the implementation of the infrastructure a scheme needs, covering highways, drainage, utilities and earthworks as well as schools, open spaces and local centres.
As Master Developer, we oversee technical approvals and the infrastructure applications and agreements that allow works to start and later be adopted, and we keep delivery aligned with the phasing of the wider development so that each parcel is ready when it is needed.
Find out how we led major infrastructure delivery at Cranbrook New Settlement.
Project Coordination
Delivery stage brings together consultants, contractors, utilities providers, housebuilders and approving authorities, often on several fronts at once. Our project coordination keeps these parties working to one programme, with clear responsibilities, shared information and regular reporting to our clients.
We coordinate utilities across the site, manage interfaces between infrastructure works and housebuilding parcels, and resolve technical issues quickly using in-house planning, engineering and environmental expertise. This keeps the programme moving and protects margins during a period of considerable activity on site.
See how we coordinated infrastructure and utilities delivery at Comeytrowe.
Serviced Land and Site Disposal
The transition from planning permission to on-site delivery is when land is sold and purchasers take sites forward. Our specialists review the technical work that supported consent and make next-stage recommendations on highways, utilities, drainage, foundations and earthworks to secure the programme and minimise development costs.
We prepare serviced land parcels ready for sale or construction and support disposals with focused site packs that set out clear technical strategies and associated costs for purchasers. This gives buyers confidence in a site’s deliverability and helps landowners achieve its full value.
Sectors We Support
We oversee delivery on new settlements, urban extensions, major residential and mixed-use schemes and regeneration projects. Our clients include landowners, consortia, investors, housebuilders and public sector organisations. Our experience covers some of the largest growth projects in the south of England, including Chilmington Green in Kent, Bourn Airfield in Cambridgeshire, Sherford near Plymouth, Cranbrook in East Devon, Heyford Park in Oxfordshire and Comeytrowe in Taunton.
On these schemes we manage everything needed to turn a consent into serviced land. That includes discharging planning conditions, Section 106 obligations, Section 278 highway works, Section 98 sewer requisitions, utility connections, and ecology and archaeology requirements. At Sherford, a £1.5bn new town of 5,500 homes near Plymouth, we led all road and infrastructure implementation as lead Development Partner, including acting as Resident Engineer. Whether we’re unlocking a stalled site or keeping a multi-phase settlement on programme, we take responsibility for delivery and drive it forward on our clients’ behalf.
Our Development Partner team works across all types of development and all of the sectors we support: residential, industry and logistics, infrastructure, commercial, data centres, leisure, education, healthcare, high rise and heritage.
Talk to Our Delivery & Implementation Specialists
Our Delivery & Implementation experts bring direct experience of housebuilding, infrastructure and development delivery. Whether you have a newly consented scheme, a site that has stalled or a multi-phase development to keep on programme, we can help you deliver it.
Contact a member of our Delivery & Implementation team directly, or email hello@brookbanks.com and one of our experts will get back to you.
Group Director, Development Management, and Head of Yorkshire and North East Office
Tori Hall
tori.hall@brookbanks.com
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FAQs
What does a Master Developer do during delivery?
A Master Developer takes delegated responsibility for coordinating and delivering the shared infrastructure on a development, such as roads, drainage, utilities, schools and open spaces. This prepares serviced land parcels that housebuilders and other developers can then build out.
What is a serviced land parcel?
A serviced land parcel is a plot of development land with access, drainage and utilities connections already provided to its boundary. Purchasers can start construction sooner and with greater certainty, which helps support land value.
Do you oversee delivery on sites where you were not involved at planning stage?
Yes. We often begin by reviewing the existing technical work and consents, then recommend the next steps needed to secure the programme and control costs before taking on oversight of delivery.