Residential & mixed-use development · Since 1994
We build
places that
hold value.
A developer that builds its own schemes — land, consent, construction and sales under one roof. Four sites live, 840 homes consented, and a programme we publish before we break ground.
Now on site
Alder Wharf
Envelope · 44 of 74 weeks
01 — The developer
We buy difficult land, argue the case for it properly, and then build it ourselves — because the only way to guarantee a programme is to own the trades that move it.
Land-led
We appraise off-plan viability: no site is bought on a hunch.
Self-delivered
Groundworks, frame and fit-out managed in house, not brokered.
Long-hold
Every scheme is designed to still look right in thirty years.
02 — Live schemes
Three projects.
Three programmes.
A canalside apartment block, a village-edge housing scheme and a listed engineering yard. Open a scheme and then open any stage of its programme — the same one our site managers work to.
Alder Wharf
Manchester · 168 apartments
Eleven storeys on a former freight wharf beside the canal: 168 apartments over a double-height workspace, with the wharf wall kept and the towpath reopened to the public.
- Tenure
- 112 private · 34 shared ownership · 22 affordable
- Consent
- Full permission · 0.9 acres · granted March 2025
- Architect
- Fielding & Roe
- Completion
- Q4 2027
Construction programme
Tap a stage
Sheet piling to the canal edge and a masonry survey of the retained wall before a single load lands.
03 — Method
Land to
keys, in five
stages.
Nothing here is improvised. Each stage has an owner, a deliverable and a date the rest of the programme depends on.
Land & planning
Site finding, viability, the planning argument — and the honesty to walk away from a bad site.
Design & consent
Architects and engineers briefed against buildability, so the consent is one we can actually build.
Procurement
Fixed-price packages, agreed programmes, and trades booked before the ground is broken.
Construction
One site manager, one programme, weekly reporting against the same numbers we sold on.
Handover
Completions, aftercare and the sales suite handed back as a community space.
£0m
GDV in build
0
Homes consented
0
Live sites
0
Years building
04 — Investment model
Move the
numbers.
Every scheme is underwritten on the same cautious model: land at 12% of value, build at 66%, profit at 16%. Drag the unit count to see how gross development value moves with it — the arithmetic we show our funding partners.
GDV
£20.6m
Build cost
£13.6m
Profit at 16%
£3.3m
A 84-unit scheme at an average of £245,000 a home. Every figure recalculates as you move the slider — modelled, not guessed.
05 — Process walkthrough
Ashcombe Rise · one six-bedroom house, start to finish
01
Land & appraisal
Weeks 1 — 4
A sloping half-acre with a mature oak on the boundary. We survey levels, test the ground and work out where a six-bedroom house can sit before anything is ordered.
Land & appraisal
1 / 606 — On site
On site, this week.
Five live developments · Autumn 2026
07 — Land & partnership
Have land?
We will build on it.
We buy outright, joint venture, or act as development partner. A site address and a rough idea of tenure is enough to start.
- Sites from 0.4 to 40 acres
- Option agreements considered
- Reply within three working days