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Complex developments keep moving when someone strong is leading them and the relationships are well managed. We provide that leadership on our clients’ behalf.
Within our Project Delivery & Management service, development management focuses on leading delivery once the strategy is set. Our Development Partner service helps clients decide what to bring forward and how. Our development management specialists then lead its delivery as the client’s representative. They act for the client with landowners, consortium partners, local authorities, statutory bodies and the wider project team, and they stay with the scheme until it is complete.
Why Choose Brookbanks for Development Management
Larger developments often involve several landowners, housebuilders, funders and public bodies, each with their own priorities. Our specialists provide a consistent lead who understands both the commercial objectives and the technical detail, drawing on our in-house planning, engineering, environmental and commercial expertise when issues arise.
Because we stay close to delivery, we can spot risks early, agree the right response with the project team and keep partners informed, helping maintain momentum and trust across long, multi-phase programmes.
Key Client Benefits
- Your interests protected throughout delivery: An experienced lead represents you with partners, authorities and the project team, so decisions are always made with your objectives in mind.
- Programme momentum maintained: We manage technical approvals and consents actively, so the development keeps moving and milestones are met.
- Complex relationships managed: Consortium partners and stakeholders stay aligned through clear communication, agreed responsibilities and open reporting, which keeps disagreements from holding up delivery.
- Risk dealt with before it affects delivery: We spot risks early and plan how to deal with them, so they don’t add cost or delay to the programme.
- Development value maximised: Value stays at the centre of every decision, from speed to market and design quality to community benefits and long-term asset performance.
Specialist Services
Strategic Leadership of Delivery
Strategic leadership gives a development clear direction as it moves from consent into construction. Our specialists lead the delivery team on our clients’ behalf and drive the programme, value and outcomes of the project. We set priorities, steer key decisions and test each one against the client’s commercial objectives and business plan. We challenge costs, look for value at every stage and push the programme forward, so clients get a development that performs commercially as well as being delivered.
On larger schemes we can act as Development Manager. A single lead takes responsibility for commercial and programme outcomes across planning, design, procurement and construction. Pre-commencement conditions, reserved matters and detailed design can then progress in parallel without losing control of the overall programme.
See how we lead delivery as Development Manager at Bourn Airfield.
Stakeholder and Consortium Management
Delivery depends on the support of many parties, from landowners and local communities to local authorities, highway and drainage authorities and utility providers. Our stakeholder management keeps each of them informed and involved at the right time, building positive working relationships that help decisions and approvals move forward.
Where several landowners or housebuilders are working together, consortium management keeps partners aligned. We coordinate consortium teams, agree responsibilities for shared infrastructure and the interfaces between parcels, and provide clear reporting so every partner has confidence in progress.
Read how serviced parcels were offered to the developer consortium ahead of programme at Stortford Fields.
Risk Assessments, Planning and Mitigation
Every development carries risks that change as it moves through design, approvals and construction. Our risk assessments identify technical, programme, commercial and stakeholder risks early, and we maintain live risk registers that are reviewed regularly with the project team.
Risk planning and mitigation turns that understanding into action. For each significant risk, we agree mitigation measures, owners and actions, and we track opportunities to improve value, programme and buildability so clients can act on them at the right time.
Technical Approvals and Statutory Consents
Most developments need a series of technical approvals, legal agreements and planning condition discharges before and during construction. We coordinate these processes on our clients’ behalf, including highway and drainage technical approvals and the associated bond and adoption agreements.
Working closely with local authorities, highway authorities and other statutory bodies, we track each submission against the delivery programme and keep approvals moving, so that construction can start and continue as planned.
Find out how we secured Technical Approval for a new roundabout at Vearse Farm, Bridport.
Sectors We Support
Our development management specialists support strategic land, new settlements, urban extensions and major residential and mixed-use developments, working with landowners, housebuilders, investors, consortium partners and public sector bodies on schemes of every scale.
Talk to Our Development Management Specialists
Did you know? 95% of our Development Management team have previously worked for housebuilders, giving clients direct access to real-world delivery experience.
Contact a member of our Development Management 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
How does development management differ from project management?
Project management concentrates on planning, coordinating and controlling the work of the delivery team. Development management takes a wider view, leading the project on the client’s behalf, managing relationships with partners and authorities and steering the decisions that shape delivery. On many projects we provide both together.
Can you manage a consortium of landowners or housebuilders?
Yes. We coordinate consortium teams, agree responsibilities for shared infrastructure and keep all partners informed through clear, regular reporting. This helps partners work towards common milestones while each keeps a clear view of its own commitments.
How do you manage risk during delivery?
We carry out risk assessments at the outset and maintain a live risk register throughout delivery. Each significant risk has an agreed owner and mitigation plan, and we review the register regularly with the project team so new risks are picked up and addressed early.
When should Development Management support be brought in?
Ideally before planning consent is granted, so we can make sure conditions and obligations are practical to deliver. We also join schemes already in delivery, often to get a programme back on track or to represent a client’s interests through construction.
Do you provide Development Management for strategic land and promotion sites?
Yes. We work with landowners, promoters and consortia to take strategic sites from outline consent to serviced land parcels ready for sale, on schemes including Chilmington Green, Bourn Airfield and Sherford.