Throughout the UK, Carter Jonas works with public, private and corporate clients to deliver property development projects with the aim of ensuring the maximum returns on clients’ assets.

We aspire to provide the very best development advice in the market to a wide range of clients in central and local government, development and regeneration agencies, as well as developers, investors and landowners, large and small.

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Our development specialists work nationally across six regional hubs: London, Cambridge, Oxford, Leeds, Birmingham and Bristol, offering clients local knowledge and expertise with a national reach.

This network of professionals allows Carter Jonas to combine our national experience with local market knowledge to offer clients a premium service and unrivalled expertise. 

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Our dedicated planning and development specialists work nationally across a variety of services, to find a consultancy for your specific need select a region below:

James is Chairman of Carter Jonas.  Formerly Head of the Planning & Development Division, James advises clients on proposed development projects throughout the south of England with nearly 30 years of experience in residential and mixed use development.  This includes site identification, project management of planning and development strategies, valuation and viability appraisals, marketing and sale of development opportunities. He has specific expertise in option, promotion and other development agreements, joint ventures and landowner equalisation agreements. James has been involved in sites ranging from new settlements to city centre regeneration and smaller provincial and rural schemes, and also provides expert witness and independent expert valuation services for dispute resolution.

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Robert is based in our London head office and heads up the national development team. He has over 20 years of experience as a developer and consultant advising private, corporate and public sector bodies on how to extract value from strategic property assets.

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John is Head of the Leeds office and the Planning & Development Team North. John advises clients on proposed development projects throughout the North of England.  He has over 30 years’ experience in residential and commercial development acting for private, corporate, institutional, charity and public sector clients.

This includes site identification, project management of planning and development strategies, valuation and viability appraisals, marketing and sale of development opportunities.

John has specific expertise in Options, Promotional Agreements, Joint Ventures and Conditional Contracts, acting mainly for landowners.  John has been involved in projects such as new settlements, to city centre regeneration, provincial sites, large commercial developments and site sales.

The Development Agency team are currently instructed on 6,500 acres in 150 locations across the North West, Yorkshire and the North East.

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Steve Morris is a partner based within our Bristol office. He has specialised in development for twenty years, and in that time he has acted for housebuilders, charities, private landowners and developers on sites varying from replacement single dwellings to several hundred units with associated facilities.
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James is a member of the southern planning and development team working out of the Oxford office. He assists in all matters associated with strategic and immediate development land opportunities and helps private and public sector clients in the delivery of development projects across the south of England.

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Caroline is the Partner heading up Commercial for Birmingham. She has over 25 years’ experience gained working predominantly within the West Midlands for several national practices and, prior to joining Carter Jonas, as Director of Property for a commercial, public sector backed property venture. She has experience over a wide range of property sectors and has acted in both a consultancy and agency capacity focussing mainly on the areas of development, investment and valuation.

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I am a Chartered Surveyor with over 25 years’ experience in the property industry. I have worked for a number of the leading property companies and house builders in that time, whilst retaining lasting relationships with a wide variety of industry contacts. I specialise in all aspects of residential development, including land acquisitions and disposals, consultancy and the setting up of Option and Promotion Agreements. I also bring a wealth of local knowledge.

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