Land & Site Promotion
Site promotion is vital to identifying land for future development and meeting the needs of future generations. We combine our experience and market knowledge with a thorough understanding of planning policy to deliver innovative solutions that meet our clients' objectives. Our behind-the-scenes advice helps clients make commercially sensible decisions when pursuing planning, and we offer a discreet way of finding the right development partner if needed.
Sites for Sale
We sell sites on behalf of landowners and local authorities. Our current sites are:
Development Appraisals and Viability
As a team of Chartered Surveyors, we advise on potential land values using residual land value appraisals. We help optimise land value by selecting the most suitable use classes and unit mix for each site.
Site Identification and Acquisition
We have carried out site searches for a wide range of clients and uses, from traditional housebuilding to school sites and renewable energy. Our reports identify the best land for a specific use by analysing the planning constraints and consents in the surrounding area.
Structuring Development Agreements
We help structure every type of deal, working for landowner clients to secure the best market terms and reduce their risk. Possible structures include:
- Subject-to-planning agreements
- Option agreements
- Promotion agreements
- Collaboration agreements
Agency and Disposal Strategies
We work mainly as an off-market agent for retained landowner clients, seeking offers from known, reputable delivery partners. For local authority and charity clients that need it, we also provide a fully marketed service.
Affordable Housing
We offer specialist affordable housing consultancy. It is an often overlooked and misunderstood part of development, yet on most residential schemes affordable housing makes up 30–40% of the homes, so it is important to get right. Our services include:
- Design input on unit types, mix and layouts
- Section 106 consultancy and optimisation
- Placing Section 106 affordable homes
- Selling sites to Registered Providers
Land Team
Mark heads up the Land Team who offer a range of consultancy and agency services as part of our multi-disciplinary teams. Mark's background is in Economics, with a Degree from Sheffield University before taking a Masters in Planning & Development and qualifying as a Chartered Surveyor in 2008. He started his career in Development Team at Cluttons splitting his time between Kent & London, before moving to RPC Land & New Homes and then Sibley Pares working at Director level.
Mark Presland MRICS
Director
Mark's experience covers a broad range of client groups, including Public Bodies, Local Authorities, Charities, Trusts, Housing Associations as well as Private Land Owners and Developers. His experience also covers a broad range of project types, from placing consented sites to structuring subject to planning agreements, options, promotions on larger strategic sites. These projects are primarily residential led, but also include Care, Retirement and Commercial sectors when appropriate.
Utilising his experience and detailed knowledge of the South East, Mark is uniquely placed to offer clients insight and market knowledge on how best to bring forward land for development and how to optimise land value.
"It is key for landowners to consider the big picture first, keeping an open mind, and considering all types of development in order to give the best chance of successfully achieving planning. I always like to offer my clients a range of alternative approaches, from offering detailed consultancy services that enable them to achieve planning themselves, to structuring agreements with trusted and experience development partners that can take the associated cost and risk that many would prefer not to take."
Kevin joined DHA in 2020 to work alongside our multi-disciplinary teams and landowners to help maximise their development potential
Kevin Chapman
Land Manager
Having worked in Residential Sales, as well as Commercial Sales and Acquisitions since 1996, Kevin has facilitated both large scale site allocations and purchases, along with small bespoke sites, which he has advised clients on potential values, along with taking some through the planning process with our team of planners.
He has worked in the land sector for over a decade and has a wealth of experience working with a cross section of landowners including Housing Associations, Privately Funded Investors/Developers, as well as Private Landowners and SME Developers. Kevin can assist both Landowners and Developers to maximise land values by analysing planning policies, market conditions and offer tailored advice dependent on the landowner's requirements.
Kevin is experienced in working on longer term strategic option and promotion agreements as well as small scale bespoke sites, mixed use schemes including Care provisions and Commercial elements.
With his wealrth of knowledge on affordable housing he can provide market feedback in to design and layout, as well as links to registered providers in order to broker deals.
Sam joined DHA in October 2023, having graduated from the university of Portsmouth with a (RICS accredited) Bsc Hons in Property Development having previously worked in the construction industry. He has recently gained his MRICS which is a fantastic achievement for Sam.
