Development Advisory
From Site to Consent to Delivery
Planning-led development advisory for investors, developers and landowners, unlocking value through planning strategy, delivery oversight and funding expertise, with independent monitoring and decisive support when schemes need rescuing.
Planning is where development value is created, and where most of it is lost. Consents are taking longer, applications are falling, and institutional capital will not touch planning risk, leaving a chronic shortage of oven-ready sites and a deep premium for those who can deliver them.
Turning Point's Development Advisory practice exists for exactly this gap. We advise investors, developers, landowners and lenders across the full development lifecycle: appraising sites, shaping planning strategy, managing delivery, structuring funding through our in-house debt advisory, and securing the right exit. Because we sit inside a real estate finance firm, every planning and delivery decision is made with the funding and exit in mind from day one.
Particularly active in the living sector (BTR, PBSA and co-living), where planning complexity is highest and the consent premium greatest, alongside our established hospitality and commercial sectors.
Who We Act For
Investors & Funds
Appraisal, planning risk assessment and delivery oversight for parties acquiring or funding development sites, including forward funding and JV structures.
Developers & Landowners
Planning strategy and development management for owners pursuing planning gain, repositioning or change of use, from feasibility through to consent and delivery.
Lenders
Independent monitoring, technical due diligence and drawdown certification across senior, mezzanine and alternative development facilities.
Councils & Housing Associations
Delivery-focused advisory for public sector bodies seeking certainty on housing and regeneration outcomes.
What We Do
Planning Advisory & Planning Gain
Site feasibility, highest-and-best-use analysis, planning strategy and risk assessment, pre-application engagement, and management of the consent process through to determination, including change of use, repositioning and Section 106 negotiation.
Explore →Development Management
End-to-end delivery oversight: appraisal and budget development, procurement strategy, contractor and consultant appointments, programme and critical-path management, cost reporting and change control, CDM and building-safety compliance, through to practical completion.
Explore →Development Funding & Structuring
The natural bridge to our Debt Advisory practice: facility structuring across senior, stretch and mezzanine development finance, lender selection and terms negotiation, forward funding and JV structuring, and equity introductions.
Explore →Monitoring & Technical Due Diligence
Independent Monitoring Surveyor services for funders: initial technical due diligence, buildability and cost validation, drawdown schedule management and certification, progress and risk reporting, contingency reviews and completion monitoring, built for credit committees.
Explore →Distressed Projects & Cost-to-Complete
When schemes stall we move fast: independent cost-to-complete assessment, programme feasibility re-assessment, contractor and supply-chain risk review, and completion strategy options (retain, re-procure, recapitalise or exit). Delivered with our Turnaround & Recoveries practice.
Explore →Exit & Disposal Strategy
Options analysis across sale, forward commitment, refinance or hold; preparation of consented sites and completed schemes for institutional sale; and management of the disposal or refinance process through our Debt Advisory and M&A capability.
Explore →Why Turning Point
Planning value, banked
Plenty of consultancies can win a consent. Very few can structure the funding, monitor the delivery and manage the exit under the same roof. We take schemes from site to consent to capital, one team, one strategy, no hand-offs.
We speak lender
Development advisory delivered from inside a debt advisory firm means every appraisal, programme and planning decision is stress-tested against what credit committees will actually fund.
Senior only
Partner-level attention on every instruction, led by a partner formed at Hollis, one of the UK's leading independent building consultancies, backed by deep local authority, agency and lender networks across London and the UK's major cities.
Built for when it goes wrong
Stalled scheme, insolvent contractor, funding gap at 60% complete: we have seen it, and our Turnaround & Recoveries and Debt Advisory teams are already in the building.
A site to unlock, a scheme to deliver, or a project to rescue?
Talk to us before the next decision point.
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