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Three career highlights:
Significant involvement in and preparation of the Ministry of Defence ‘Footprint Strategy’ announced in the House of Commons, during a 2 year secondment to DIO.
A number of Central Government and Local Authority Green Book Business Cases leading to relocations, change programmes and adopting new ways of working.
Sale of Centrepoint Tower to Almacantar under the Targetfollow administration
Three career highlights:
Strategic Property Adviser to QVC for 12 years through their expansion into the UK
Including location consultancy, acquisition and program management of the
Construction of a 750,000sqft distribution warehouse and 1,000 seat call centre.
Head of Estates for Ingeus UK through their major expansion delivering 35 new sites
from search to fully fitted occupation in less than 9 months
Key Account Manager for DWP’s National Property Adviser for 15 years including
drafting 3 estate strategies to initially merge 2 departments’ estates and then
deliver the rationalisation strategy that led to savings in excess of £375m pa.
Three career highlights:
Account lead for Buckinghamshire County Council estate management contract responsible for the overall client interface and including quality control aspects, job commissioning and KPI performance in addition to the direct delivery of many key projects including strategic sales, implementation of annual asset valuation programme, town centre regeneration schemes and other property initiatives.
Account director for Thames Valley Police between 1997 and 2012 responsible for property services delivery across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire and including acquisitions and disposals, rating, landlord and tenant, asset valuations, strategic advice, telecommunications, building consultancy, development consultancy and work place strategy.
Property advisor to Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Development advice including the sale of a 270 unit surplus residential site in Oxford. Strategic estate planning across the estate with objectives of enhancing clinical use provision as well as maximizing income through long term investment activities. Negotiation of numerous landlord and tenant and development situations across the Trust estate.
Three career highlights:
• Fourteen years of strategic advice in advocating local and central government services, allowing savings and improved service delivery.
• Two nominations for occupier of the year awards on behalf of Local Authorities.
• Undertaking an efficiency review of every public owned asset within a UK County to understand strategic co-sharing opportunities and savings.
Our public and third sector services
Portfolio reviews
We act for a number of London boroughs, county councils and district councils, giving expert property advice that ranges from overarching property asset management plans to estate strategies for operational estates and investment portfolios.
Statutory transfers
Carter Jonas provides advice when land and property needs to be transferred from one public- sector organisation to another, following a change in legislation. We also have experience of working with local authorities on academy transfers and transfers of school sites as part of a change to foundation status.
Asset & estate management
We have established a track record of providing asset and estate management advice for operational and investment portfolios. Increasingly, we are instrumental in creating income-generating investment portfolios through the acquisition of market opportunities and the utilisation of existing property assets.
Valuation
We provide valuations for a wide range of purposes across commercial, residential, rural and specialist use sectors, whether for development appraisals, disposal and acquisition, or taxation purposes. We can ensure compliance with the guidance issued by RICS, the government financial reporting manual (FReM) and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA).
Strategic advice
Our clients benefit from a bespoke service, accelerated delivery and minimised cost, while all the time assured of compliance with guidance requirements. We can assist with feasibility studies, estate strategies, options appraisals and business cases that are HM Treasury compliant.