- Client
- Private landowner
- Sector
- Planning & Development
- Location
- Bodicote, Oxfordshire
- How we helped
- Development Consultancy
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.
Acting on behalf of a longstanding institutional client, Carter Jonas has sold 43 acres of development land on the edge of the Oxfordshire village of Bodicote, near Banbury, with outline planning permission for 280 new dwellings.
Achieving this result was the culmination of several years of work. This included the negotiation of a landowners’ equalisation agreement and the procurement of a development partner on behalf of our client, through the negotiation of a promotion agreement. By negotiating the agreement and engaging a specialist land promoter, we helped our client realise the development value of their land, without exposing it to the risk of pursuing planning speculatively.
At the same time we also resolved a number of matters required for the delivery of the site, including the release of third party access rights and third party drainage rights over the land, and obtaining vacant possession from an Agricultural Holdings Act tenant, thus allowing our client realise the full potential of their property.
Having secured outline planning permission, we took the land to the open market and secured competitive interest, ultimately delivering a clean, unconditional sale to a national housebuilder.