- Client
- Private landowner
- Sector
- Planning & Development
- Location
- Gloucestershire
- How we helped
- Financial viability Planning consultancy Strategic land 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.
Carter Jonas acquired around 90 acres of agricultural land in the Green Belt near Gloucester for an institutional client, being part of an ‘area of search’ within the then draft Regional Spatial Strategy.
We then advised our client on methods of taking control of a second similar sized landownership in the area. Consideration was given to various methods including purchase, taking a promotion or option agreement, and entering into a landowner collaboration agreement.
In the end, our professionals negotiated a collaboration agreement with the adjoining landowner before project managing the promotion of the overall site. A draft allocation in the joint core strategy was secured and planning permission for a strategic mixed-use development scheme, including 1,500 new homes, was secured following a ‘call in’ public inquiry. The allocation was subsequently confirmed on the adoption of the joint core strategy.
Carter Jonas have since been project managing the discharge of planning conditions and the delivery of primary infrastructure to open the site for housing. We have now sold three individual residential phases with capacity for 635 new homes to national house builders. During this commission, Carter Jonas have also negotiated and settled ‘overages’ due to former landowners, the surrender of easements affecting the site and resolved many other issues to enable delivery.
Approval secured under permitted development for barn conversion
Class Q approval secured for conversion of a modern agricultural barn to five-bedroom dwelling with ...
Manor Oak Homes
A residential development of 680 homes including a new neighbourhood centre and extensive public ope...
Global Headquarters Cambridge
Carter Jonas has been appointed by ARM Holdings to act as their sole strategic property adviser in C...
Culham Science Centre
Culham Science Centre combines world-class publicly funded research into fusion power; commercial te...
Harwell Campus
Harwell Campus is a leading science, innovation, technology and business campus.
Sir John Moore Barracks
Sir John Moore Barracks is the home of the Army Training Regiment and dates from 1986, but the site ...
Former county council site
On behalf of This Land (the property company owned by Cambridgeshire County Council), our profession...
Penny Pot Lane Harrogate
Carter Jonas on behalf of Mealia Partnership and Cushman & Wakefield on behalf of Woodard Corporatio...
Meadowlands, Winchester
Acting on behalf of the landowner, the Carter Jonas Development team in Winchester advised on the sa...
GAP Depot at former Bodmin Moor Radio Station
Carter Jonas have obtained planning permission for the change of use of the historic Bodmin Moor Rad...
Whitehouse Farm Harrogate
Carter Jonas’s Planning North team successfully secures Full Planning Permission for residential dev...
Ecoworld’s sustainable regeneration of Woking town centre
The regeneration scheme will create over 900 new homes, ground floor units for a variety of business...
Land at Towton Avenue
Carter Jonas’ development professionals have sold a 1.65-acre development site at Towton Avenue, Yor...
The Spicers Site, Sawston
Our professionals provided planning consultancy advice in the preparation and submission of a full p...
Land at Gipsy Lane
The Gipsy Lane site presents an opportunity to provide high quality new homes and supporting facilit...
Land at Station Road, Longstanton
Our consultants were engaged to provide planning consultancy services in relation to a development i...
Planning Permission secured on appeal for retirement village in the Cambridge Green Belt
Acting on behalf of Axis Land Partnerships Ltd, the Carter Jonas Eastern Planning Team has secured o...
Ladbroke Grove
Carter Jonas advise the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) on the redevelopment of its r...
Carter Jonas achieves planning consent for Barratt and David Wilson homes in Cambridge
National property consultancy Carter Jonas has secured planning consent on behalf of Barratt and Dav...
Development partner secured, Leeds
Our development professionals were instructed to identify a suitable development partner to take on ...
Harlocks Farm, Stuntney
Working on behalf of our client, Cole Ambrose Ltd., our Planning & Development team, based in the ea...
Planning achieved for sustainable redevelopment of British library’s Boston spa site
Supported by Carter Jonas, British Library’s sustainable redevelopment of its Boston Spa site has be...
North Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Acting for a charity, Carter Jonas identified the potential for development of the client’s Greenbel...
Retail Development
Carter Jonas transformed the landmark Daniel Department Store building in Windsor.
Brentford Community Stadium
We have been working with Brentford Football Club for a number of years to develop a strategy which ...
Windmill Farm
Carter Jonas’s Northern Planning and Development Team is instructed to promote over 100 acres of lan...
Threesixty Developments
Threesixty Developments called on Carter Jonas’s expertise following the refusal of a planning appli...
Carter Jonas achieves planning and listed building consent for Hertford College, Oxford
Carter Jonas has secured planning and listed building consent for an extensive redevelopment for Her...
Mill Lane, Normanton
On behalf of the landowners, our planning professionals based in the north of England secured outlin...
Carter Jonas secures planning permission for the expansion of the Oxfordshire Advanced Skills facility at Culham Science Centre
Carter Jonas was appointed by the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to prepare and submit a plannin...
Kingston Riding Centre
On behalf of the residential developer London Square Developments, our Carter Jonas London planning ...
Urban Extension
Carter Jonas were instructed to advise on the sustainable Urban Extension of Milton Keynes in Aylesb...
Balham Bowls Club
The Carter Jonas London planning team have secured planning permission for 12 new town houses and 16...
Waterbeach New Town
Waterbeach New Town is a proposal for an exemplar new settlement located north of Cambridge on land ...
Chalfont St Peter, Aylesbury Vale
Our professionals developed indicative masterplan proposals for land northeast of Chalfont St Peter ...
Harrods Headquarters
Carter Jonas’ London planning team has obtained planning permission for a large-scale office extensi...
Development land in Harrogate
Carter Jonas’ development professionals have sold a 5.17-acre development site at Whinney Lane in Ha...
Buchan Street Local Centre
Our planning consultants successfully secured a resolution to approve a planning application for the...
Gunnersbury Triangle
We recently secured planning permission, on behalf of Lampton Development 360, a joint venture partn...
Burringham Wind Turbine Development
Ian Fowler & Co, a farming company in North Lincolnshire, appointed Carter Jonas to determine the po...
Environment Statement for former brickworks
The wider project involved the demolition of existing redundant stores, change of use of a builder’s...
Change of use to secondary school
Our northern planning specialists secured approval for the temporary change of use of offices at Rus...
The Meadows Community Centre and St Alban's Recreation Ground
Our planning consultants successfully secured a resolution to approve two planning applications whic...
Goldsworth Road, Woking Borough Council
Carter Jonas is advising EcoWorld London on the redevelopment of the 1.15 ha site, comprising eight ...
Discovery Special Academy
Our planning specialists secured temporary planning permission for a two year period for modular acc...
Development partner secured, Manchester
Acting on behalf of a private landowner who owns around 1,000 acres of land within Rochdale Bury, ou...
Islamabad Education Campus
The Islamabad site is 10.3 hectare in size and has been occupied by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association...
South West Milton Keynes
Carter Jonas has provided planning consultancy services in relation to SWMK since 2012. This has inc...
East Witney Strategic Development Area
Carter Jonas has successfully secured an allocation for around 450 new homes on land at East Witney....
Viability of a proposed scheme
We advised the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham on the viability of a proposed residential sch...
Albert Road Residential Development
Carter Jonas’s Leeds office was instructed by the landowner to identify a development partner to bri...
New Sports Centre, Oundle School
Oundle School is the third largest independent co-educational day and boarding school in England. Ca...
Dishforth Road Development
Carter Jonas's Leeds office were instructed by the landowner to select a Developer or Promoter to ta...
Student Accommodation: Iffley Road
The Oxford Planning Team at Carter Jonas have worked closely with Wadham College and the wider proje...
ARM Holdings Campus Expansion
Carter Jonas’ Cambridge Planning team helped secure detailed planning permission for 20,677sqm GEA o...
Cambridge Growing Life Centre
Carter Jonas’s Cambridge Planning Team assisted Granta Park Estates in securing planning permission ...
Land at Green Lane West, Rackheath
Carter Jonas were appointed by Taylor Wimpey Strategic Land to advise on the prospects of securing o...
Land off Thornbury Road, Eynsham
Maximised value for the landowner by securing planning permission for 160 residential units and then...
Carter Jonas has successfully promoted land at Knights Hill
Our Eastern team, based in Cambridge, has successfully promoted land at Knights Hill.
Russell Group secure Planning Permission
Russell Group secure Planning Permission for 1.45m sq ft commercial scheme and 1000 new homes
Specialist Orthopaedics
The Carter Jonas planning & development north team obtained planning consent for the change of use o...
BCC Land and Property Portfolio
Carter Jonas advises Buckinghamshire County Council on its land and property portfolio under a 5-yea...
Land development opportunities from Greenbelt to the north of Abingdon
Acting for a charity client, Carter Jonas identified the potential for development of Greenbelt land...
Barwood Capital, Richmond
Plans for a newly refurbished, Grade A office building in Richmond have been given the green light, ...
Strategic development scheme in Wantage
Carter Jonas brought two farming families together at Wantage to promote a strategic development sch...
Multi-development opportunities in Gillingham
Carter Jonas acted for a private landowner in respect of a strategic development scheme comprising a...
Carter Jonas acquired 90 acres of land in Greenbelt
Carter Jonas acquired around 90 acres of agricultural land in the Green Belt near Gloucester for an ...
Secured Outline Planning Permission
On behalf of CEG, the Oxford Planning Team has secured outline planning permission for up to 900 hou...
New road triangle, Feltham – planning success
Carter Jonas have recently secured planning permission for the redevelopment of the land known as Ne...
London Borough of Hounslow
Carter Jonas is appointed to provide planning advice to Lampton Development 360 across their develop...
County Hall - Heritage and Sustainability
Carter Jonas were appointed by Sustainable Ventures to provide planning advice for the refurbishment...
Eton House
The refurbishment and extension of an office building on Paradise Road in the London Borough of Rich...
School Rebuilding Programme
Helping the UK’s Department for Education to build and refurbish schools across London and the South...
Jersey Road
Carter Jonas has been providing planning advice to Brentford Football Club with respect to the train...
Wildstone Portfolio
The London Planning Team at Carter Jonas were appointed to assist in the management of a portfolio o...
Charlton Riverside
Carter Jonas is advising Hyde Group on the redevelopment of the 4.21 ha site, comprising five parcel...
Beaverbrook Golf Course
The delivery of this exemplary project was due to many years of hard work by a committed and enthusi...
Aperture Works
Carter Jonas has successfully secured reserved matters and detailed planning permission for Harrow V...
Brentford Community Stadium
We have been working with Brentford Football Club and its development partner EcoWorld London for a ...
Cleeve Park
Working with the London Borough of Bexley (LBB) and the Kemnal Academies Trust, we secured planning ...
Brick By Brick Small Sites Portfolio
Carter Jonas is advising a Croydon Council backed development company on a 70-site residential portf...
Land at Gough Street
Our Planning and Development Team secured detailed planning permission for 540 units of purpose-buil...
Hounslow High Street Quarter
Carter Jonas is advising Barratt London on the redevelopment of a prominent town centre site, north ...
Heathside
Acting on behalf of the Department for Education and the ElmWey Learning Trust, we secured planning ...
Nestles Avenue
Carter Jonas was involved in advising Buccleuch Property on a mixed-use redevelopment scheme on Nest...
Fairfield Homes
Carter Jonas was instructed to provide planning strategy advice and prepare a detailed planning appl...
Harrow View East
Carter Jonas has successfully secured reserved matters and detailed planning permission for Harrow V...
Westminster Small Sites
Carter Jonas advised Westminster City Council on the redevelopment of two council-owned garage sites...
Surplus Land Pilot Study
We are currently advising Homes England and Locat-Ed, the Department for Education’s property compan...
West Tey
On behalf of L&Q, as well as strategic promoters Cirrus Land and landowner consortium G120, Carter J...
24 dwellings and public open space
Our professionals secured a resolution to grant outline planning consent for up to 24 dwellings and ...
The Aylesbury Estate Regeneration Project
The Aylesbury Estate was built in the 1960’s and 1970’s and originally contained over 2,500 resident...
Land at Hills Avenue and Baldock Way
On behalf of the charity, It Takes a City, Carter Jonas managed and submitted an application for fou...
Brookfield Riverside
Outline planning permission for Brookfield Riverside, a major mixed use town centre, retail, leisure...