Land Acquisition

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With 20+ years’ experience decommissioning residential, commercial and industrial properties, ranging from high rise buildings, former military bases, industrial land and hospitals, our team can offer accurate assessment of sites services and provide the most effective methodology for decommissioning.

Pre-acquisition site services assessments
Post-acquisition site services assessments
Services infrastructure consultancy
Services decommissioning strategies
Utility Network liaison

All services

Clients

Preston Hall
(NHS)

Managed the liaison between Redrow Homes, the NHS and UKPN to plan the safest methodology for isolating the former hospital site, while not disrupting the continuity of supply to retained NHS properties.

Dawes Hill
(Taylor Wimpey)

Overall management of the decommissioning strategy for the former RAF base, liaising across the developer, demolition contractor and Distribution Network Operators including SSEN, SGN and BT.

Cemex Barrington
(BDW)

As part of the isolation works, we identified the requirement for retention of the private high voltage network, which in turn enabled continuity of supply to the remainder of the Cemex site.

FAQs

The best time to employ our services is preferably when land buyers are looking at buying brown field sites. Decommissioning costs can be very expensive, and if the service elements are known, assessed and estimated, then the land buyers have a realistic idea of over and above costs for the development.

Utilising our services earlier in the land purchase cycle can save money in the long-term. We can help ascertain any significant elements that may cause impact. Allowing for the disconnections/diversions of services is often overlooked with costly implications further down the line. We can assist with identifying these prior to purchase.

Costs to resolve service issues can be significant. It is not unheard of for charges to be in the region of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Some examples we’ve come across:

Network and private services running through contaminated areas such as tunnels.
25 substations on a private network which hasn’t been tested or inspected for 10 years.
Without realising, buying a site where an electrical switch room for the main hospital was located in the middle of the site. Cost for the hire of 6 generators plus fuel and servicing for 2 years, whilst the new electrical services and substations were installed, is a heady consideration for any land buyer.
Buying a site with questionable isolation documents, or on trust that all services have been removed years ago.

All services

Clients

Preston Hall (NHS)

Dawes Hill (Taylor Wimpey)

Cemex Barrington (BDW)

FAQs

What consultancy services do we provide?

What is the appropriate time to utilise our services?

How can we help you realise your potential post purchase costs?

Preston Hall
(NHS)

Dawes Hill
(Taylor Wimpey)

Cemex Barrington
(BDW)