Development Management
Development management for sites that have stopped moving.
Client-side development management for investors, funds, lenders and landowners. We reposition stalled and mis-positioned sites, step in to deliver schemes already under way, and take new sites forward from scratch, with single-point accountability from land through planning to exit.
Firm no. 896860
What we do
ADMG is the client-side development management arm of Astrantia Group. We are appointed by the investors, funds, lenders, landowners and developers behind a site whose original plan no longer works, whether stalled, mis-positioned, or running down an ageing consent, and we take single-point accountability for turning it around: from land, through planning, to exit.
We are also brought in by developers and operators to deliver schemes that are already under way. When a live project needs an experienced, accountable pair of hands to protect the investment and see it through, we step in as development manager and carry it to completion, on programme and on budget.
Repositioning and stepping in to deliver are where we are strongest, but they are far from the limit of what we do. We also take new sites forward from scratch, carrying them through planning and construction, on schemes from £30m to £150m and beyond.
Worked with and for
How we work
A single point of accountability, from land to exit.
01
Define and stress-test the strategy
We work out what the site can realistically become, and pressure-test it against planning, market and cost before any money is committed.
02
Assemble and direct the team
We appoint and lead the right consultants and advisers, holding the whole team to a single, agreed strategy.
03
Drive the planning case
We run the planning process actively and manage the stakeholders, through to a resolution to grant.
04
Manage delivery to budget
We take the scheme through construction to completion, protecting cost, programme and quality against an agreed budget.
Currently under development
The schemes on our desk right now.
~40 homes
Maybourne Rise
Woking, Surrey · Leigh Place Properties
A 3.5-acre site in Woking, brought forward for 40 new homes: a mix of detached and semi-detached market, affordable and shared-ownership housing. We are promoting the site through the local plan process and preparing the planning application.
485 homes, build-to-rent · circa £100m+
Holloway Head, Birmingham
Birmingham · Invesco / Apo
A delivery mandate rather than a repositioning: appointed to take a 485-home build-to-rent scheme already under construction through to completion. We stepped in to give the client a single, accountable point of delivery, protecting the investment and driving the final construction stages of almost 500 rental homes, alongside extensive gym and communal amenities, in a major city-centre regeneration area.
Repositioning in practice
Stalled, then delivered.
Major repositioning schemes our team has led. Each had run out of road under its original plan; a new strategy unlocked the site and carried it through to delivery.
197 homes · circa £120m
West Byfleet
Surrey · AXA IM / Retirement Villages Group
A stalled 197-home site acquired from a Canadian UHNWI. We repositioned it around hyper-connected, town-centre living, reworking the consent through a section 73 amendment and then reserved matters, to create the first whole-life net zero carbon retirement scheme in the UK: a new heart for the town with a public square, public library, public car park and 17,000 sq ft of commercial space, 320,000 sq ft in all.
166 homes · circa £100m
Tunbridge Wells
Kent · AXA IM / Retirement Villages Group
Stalled for 21 years across five successive developers. Acquired from a family office and repositioned by a specialist team, overcoming difficult commercial underpinnings, a Network Rail tunnel running directly beneath and 9m of level changes. Planning was resolved inside 12 months through genuine stakeholder engagement.
Wider track record
Sites bought and brought forward, across London and beyond.
Beyond ADMG's client engagements, the experience behind the group runs decades deep: acquiring and unlocking residential sites in some of the most demanding markets in the country. This is wider career experience, not presented as ADMG deliveries.
Hampstead Village
ResidentialBelsize Park
ResidentialWestminster
ResidentialBournemouth
ResidentialHarpenden
ResidentialIn their words
“James' knowledge of managing the delivery of retirement communities and regeneration projects in the UK is second to none. He understood our investment imperatives and delivered on his promises to us.
Private equity investor
“James was able to overcome strategically outdated thinking to deliver a commercially successful outcome. His tenacity to find a deliverable solution where others had failed over many years is what sets him apart.
Private equity investor
“ADMG has provided sector insight that has helped us to refocus our strategic direction in the world of retirement living.
Simon Westray, Sagehaus Living