Delivering land
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About
JR Land and Development Services
We offer land and development consultancy services to private sector, registered provider and local authority clients across the UK.
Land acquisition and development expertise, with a focus on Affordable Housing.
Supporting clients across the identification, acquisition and delivery of land and development opportunities, with particular expertise in Affordable Housing. Experience spans residential, mixed-use and regeneration projects, from early-stage strategy through to delivery. A practical, informed approach helps navigate complexity, unlock value and bring projects forward with confidence.
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Our founder and Director, Jake Rigby is an accomplished land and development professional with a surveying post graduate qualification and 25+ years experience in the private, public and RP sectors. He has previously held land and development roles at Orbit, Sovereign, Abri and Keepmoat Homes working in and leading land, development, commercial and regeneration teams.
Our services
Specialist support across the full development lifecycle, with particular expertise in Affordable Housing alongside wider residential, mixed-use and regeneration opportunities.
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We have extensive land buying experience in the private, registered provider and local authority sectors to help you fill in any gaps in your current land buying programme or find land to meet a specific strategic need.
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We have a particular expertise in unblocking stalled, unviable or complex sites. We can work with the project team and stakeholders to turn ‘headache’ sites back to viability and into delivered homes. We offer a one stop shop approach project managing sites through the planning, tendering, construction, practical completion and end of defect stages.
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If you need to fill a gap in your pipeline or spend grant by a tight deadline, we have considerable experience supporting clients to find the right partners and opportunities for you.
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We can support you to source and deliver joint venture and partnership working opportunities to help meet a strategic need, enter a new market or build stronger relationships with key partners.
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We offer an existing housing stock review service to identify homes for option appraisal. We have also worked with clients to complete a landholdings audit to identify land with development potential.
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We have delivered successful outcomes for clients on both large-scale mixed use and single block regeneration projects. Our experience spans from launching a building for regen, supporting customers to find new homes, negotiating buy backs and with commercial tenants to secure vacant possession, obtaining planning permission, tendering works, managing construction contracts right up to handing keys to a customer returning to a brand-new building.
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Other services we’ve previously delivered for clients include refurbishment work, relationship management, policy support, agreeing standard forms of contract and pre-audit assessments.
We have a track record of delivering projects and are confident we have the skills, experience and drive to help your team achieve its goals.
Projects and experience
We have worked on a diverse range of land and development projects, from affordable and private sale housing acquisitions to large-scale regeneration, planning and development delivery. Our particular expertise is in Affordable Housing, complex sites and finding practical ways to unlock value and bring opportunities forward. Get in touch to see how we could help your organisation maximise value, unlock opportunities and deliver more homes.
Previous projects include:
• Bristol pre-fab private sector partnership and garage site regeneration programmes
• Affordable and market sale land acquisitions across the southwest and midlands
• Barton Hill mixed use regeneration project
• Development agency work delivering affordable homes for local Bristol RP
• Wapping Wharf phase 2 forward funding and affordable housing deal
• Permitted development office to residential conversions for private rent
• The Views housing blocks regeneration in Filton, South Gloucestershire
• Planning consent for 180 homes on site outside of settlement boundary in Gloucester
• Affordable disposals to RPs for site in Cheddar and MMC project in Highbridge
• Successful planning appeal for site in Castle Cary in Somerset
• Homes England DPS bids in Cirencester and Weston Super Mare
• Masterplan work for Matson Estate in Gloucester
Client feedback
“JRLDS has provided valuable support to Bromford across a number of projects, including several within the pre-construction space. Their expertise, proactive approach and ability to navigate complex requirements have helped drive projects forward effectively. They are a knowledgeable and trusted partner, and we would be delighted to work with them again.”
— M. Batham, Head of Technical, Bromford
“Jake is an exceptional development professional and project manager. He has successfully bid for and acquired land, delivered partnership projects, and disposed of affordable housing. Jake is versatile and dynamic, and is able to deliver great outcomes on highly complex projects.”
— John Owen, Keepmoat Homes
“I brought Jake in at a time when I needed an experienced and trusted pair of hands to help us work through some challenging development schemes, where risks had been underestimated or not seen. I knew he would give an honest assessment of the risks while finding a practical way through them. Jake brought exactly the right balance of challenge, commercial judgement and delivery focus – helping us resolve problems and move viable schemes forward with confidence.”
— Clare Crawford, Vistry
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Let’s talk
Have a project, opportunity or challenge you’d like to discuss? Give us a call on 07584 394 740 or complete the form and we’ll be in touch shortly.