EWS’s Consultancy and Development Department handles a significant proportion of the development and redevelopment opportunities that arise in Suffolk and a number of major sites in Essex. This currently extends to over 750 acres.

SERVICES

• Strategic Planning Advice on greenfield and brownfield sites to maximise financial return
• Planning negotiations in relation to Local Authority LDFs and planning applications
• Land Acquisition for occupiers and developers
• Sale of development land for a range of owners - from private individuals to plcs
• Advice on and negotiation of option agreements, conditional contracts and other forms of joint venture arrangements
• Monitoring development contracts and negotiating land sale prices

RECENT PROJECTS/TASKS

• SnOasis: a broad range of advice on this project to Onslow Suffolk Ltd. Prior to this, we sold the 360 acre site for Blue Circle Industries plc.
• East Anglia: Advice across a range of property requirements for the Fred. Olsen Companies
• Stowmarket: sale of 100 acre farm with development potential to major housebuilder, on behalf of
  private client.
• Ipswich: development advice to JG Ipswich LLP on 100 acre former Sugar Beet factory site
• Bury St Edmunds: advice to private client in relation to 100 acre proposed mixed use development
• Brantham: advice to St Francis Group on 85 acre former factory site
• Stowmarket: a range of property advice to Akzo Nobel Ltd (formerly ICI Paints Ltd.) on its European Premier Whites plant
• Ipswich Area: identification and acquisition of 25 acre Distribution Depot site for a Major Container
  Shipper Line
• Sible Hedingham: advice to Premdor UK Holdings Ltd on optimising the redevelopment value of their
  30 acre factory site