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Head of Land & New Business

V10 is a leading and reputable provider of package deals to the RP sector. We currently have over 1200 homes placed in our customers development pipelines. With our RP and construction partners we enable the delivery of additional affordable homes to those with need. This is why V10 exists. We are looking for a dynamic person to join our growing professional team to deliver on our current business plan and shape the next one. Do you have the drive, ambition, energy and entrepreneurial flair to make things happen where others flounder or fail in development? If so, read on.

Position:

The Head of Land and New Business will work directly with the Land and New Business Director. First and foremost you will assist in sourcing suitable off-market development land within key geographical areas that support the growth of the business. Working alongside our RP customers and our in-house dynamic pre-construction team you will appraise and shape commercially optimal schemes to achieve a competitive position in the land market. After agreeing Head of Terms with a land seller and a package deal with our RP customers you will manage the legal process to completion.

Within this role you will:

  1. Build strong long-term relationships with agents, landowners, promoters and RP’s to acquire sites and procure new package deals for V10.
  2. Need to be able to cold call land prospects and RP contacts and show persistence.
  3. Undertake quantitative and qualitative market research and understand the needs of a home buyer and localised housing demand. An agency background would be an advantage.
  4. Undertake and optimise appraisals (ideally using ProVal)
  5. Produce commercial viabilities prior to a land offer
  6. Assess land opportunities thoroughly and make recommendations to the team based on sound commercial judgement.
  7. Make land offers and diligently negotiate terms
  8. Qualify RP package offers and agree terms
  9. Manage the legal process from HOT’s to completion alongside the pre-construction team who will be managing the linked JCT.
  10. Manage and prioritise all the above workstreams simultaneously.

What you’ll need:

  • Excellent and proven negotiation and communication skills
  • Demonstrate an understanding and experience of the development process across a range of building and tenure types.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of RP funding and grant funding opportunities.
  • Comprehensive understanding of the financial elements of development projects and their impact on scheme viability.
  • Experience of using development appraisal software
  • Strong commercial awareness and risk management skills.
  • Excellent financial and project management skills
  • A strong understanding of both the land sale and the acquisition process including knowledge of options, contracts and various deeds.
  • Have a clear understanding of the planning process.
  • Appropriate land experience within a developer, RP or housebuilder
  • Be eager to keep all stakeholders, internal and external to V10 updated in realtime
  • Have ambition for yourself and the team and a positive attitude to succeed.
  • An ability to use digital media to promote yourself alongside V10.
  • Above all else you’ll need the abilities and mindset of a ‘dealer’ coupled with a keen eye for detail and an ability to anticipate commercial consequences

 

For more information and details of this highly renumerate and flexible package please email Karl Timberlake (Land & New Business Director) at [email protected]

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V10 adds another 76 homes to Stonewater’s development pipeline

V10 is pleased to announce the collaborative delivery of a new sustainable community situated off Northgate Way in the rural village of Terrington St Clement for Stonewater HA.

As dynamic operators in the land led package deal industry, V10 has successfully delivered a key development site enabling our client RP to expand its operational patch into Kings Lynn and Norfolk. The pre-construction and planning matters associated with the project have been robustly de-risked and worked through in unison with our long standing partner contractor Burmor Construction and their architects of choice Swann Edwards.

Meeting local housing needs

Stonewater’s values strongly align with V10’s objectives to provide additional affordable homes where possible to address the surrounding demands of local housing needs in village locations such as Terrington St Clements. Moving forward our client will be seeking permission to provide a wholly affordable mixed tenure residential development for 76 new units. The mix of properties will consist of one, two, three and four bedroom homes that are shared ownership, social rent, affordable rent and rent-to-buy to catering for the broad demographic of the area providing much needed affordable family homes within the borough.

Local vernacular nuances to create design interest within street scenes

The proposed sustainable community has been designed in such a manner that facades are to be afforded with architectural features to reflect the appearance of surrounding properties which will look comfortably appropriate in this rural setting. This will be achieved using a carefully selected palette of external materials which replicate the nearby countryside properties providing a sense of eye pleasing interest within the developments street scenes.

Coupled with the above the scheme will contain feature house types in key focal locations which have decorative frontages and enhanced glazing features providing kerb appeal throughout.

Creating countryside aspects and enhanced amenity for leisure and play

The site benefits from views across open countryside with properties being configured to enjoy such aspects. Many mature trees are to be retained along the wooded boundaries of Benns Lane and Northgate Way providing privacy and a green haven to gardens areas. A large swathe of on-site open space will be located abutting the Southern boundary which will incorporate a new meandering footway to provide connectivity to the local road network and surrounding development. Within this green hub a child’s play area and feature seating will also be accommodated for residents and children to relax and enjoy these outdoor amenities.

Added sustainability initiatives

Alongside the open space and trees to be preserved there are number of additional sustainable initiatives that align with V10’s values. In this regard a new enhanced planting bund between the farmhouse, existing businesses and development site will be formed to create a green landscaped belt to provide screening to properties and to act as a partial buffer against adjacent noises.

In order to contain and attenuate ground water, permeable paving and a SUDS pond feature will be incorporated into the scheme providing sustainable drainage measures. All properties are to be provided with cycle sheds to encourage active travel by bicycle and air source heat pumps are to be provided throughout as a form of non-fossil fuel heating.

Modern Methods Of Construction

In delivering the scheme to Stonewater modern methods of construction are to be adopted which aligns with V10’s core sustainability value. Our contractor of choice Burmor Construction are experts in this field of approach and have assessed the options available to them to move forward on this basis. Highly insulated closed timber panels are to be built off site in a controlled factory environment and installed to form the wall system to properties contained within the scheme on site. The benefit of this approach minimises the time and energy spent on site whilst also reducing pollution and disruption at site level to the surrounding neighbourhood. Waste can also be controlled and reduced more easily when applying the uses of repetitive MMC processes and installations. The overall aim being to create energy efficient sustainable homes keeping bills low for occupants.

At the time of writing consideration is being given to how best to achieve a 55% pre-manufactured value using other offsite techniques and components. We hope to be able to report on this criteria being hit as V10 remain keen to be at the forefront of all sustainable methods of construction with a view to guiding all our contracting partners to operate this way and join us on this journey.

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Breaking ground and forging ahead in Cambridgeshire for settle housing association

V10 is pleased to report on the advancing progress of a new sustainable community situated in St Ives for settle group housing association.

As active collaborators operating in the land led package deal sector, the company has successfully delivered this key development site enabling our client RP to expand its operational patch into Cambridgeshire. The strict parameters of the delivery costs of the works were diligently analysed and adhered to with all pre planning and construction matters also being de-risked in unison with Burmor Construction, our delivery partner of choice. Following demolition of the former VW car sales premises, construction of the site infrastructure is forging ahead as our recent drone footage and aerial imagery demonstrates.

Recognising local housing needs

The settle group’s values accord with V10’s aspirations to provide additional affordable homes where possible to meet the surrounding demand in outskirt locations such as St Ives. Moving forward our client has sought to provide a wholly 100% affordable mixed tenure development for 94 new units in total. The mix of properties will consist of 30 new homes made up of two and three bed units, together with 64 one and two bed apartments spread over a series of low rise blocks. The tenures to properties being introduced across the scheme will be for affordable rent and shared ownership which recognises and supports local housing needs.

Well considered design to create interesting facades and eye pleasing street scenes

The proposed sustainable community has been designed in such a manner that facades are to be treated using a palette of high-grade quality materials containing subtle brick detailing design features throughout. Generous glazing proportions and high spec roofing materials add to the kerb appeal of properties with contrasting brickwork frontages creating interest in the eye pleasing street scenes. As the scheme develops further these will all be captured using drone footage. In the meantime, the CG Imagery contained within the project page of our website does the development justice in terms of its exemplar design.

An abundance of amenity spaces to rest and relax within

The site benefits from generously proportioned communal landscaped areas which have been carefully planned throughout the development to provide opportunities for rest and relaxation.

Contained within these amenity zones are pathways, play spaces and enhanced planting areas to create new habitats for wildlife including a revitalised pond. Properties are configured close to these spaces having easy on the doorstep access to such whilst having the added advantage of aspects across these green swathes.

As part of the flood mitigation measures, the scheme provides residents with an attractive elevated boardwalk which forms a safe means of escape in the event of flooding.

Delivering and sustaining biodiversity 

Mature established trees are to be retained around the existing pond contained within the site to sustain bird and bat life. Coupled with this it is planned to further extend the pond area as an amenity feature for residents to enjoy views across from carefully planned seating zones.

To support environmental performance and biodiversity throughout the site there is also a requirement to provide green roofs to strategic properties within the development.

Modern methods of construction

Closed panel timber frame construction methods are being used to deliver the properties within the development, allowing for a fast and accurate build programme with a precision product from a factory-controlled environment to minimise waste. This method also offers exceptional accuracy and demonstrable sustainability through high levels of thermal efficiency and air tightness performance all which aligns with V10’s sustainable values.

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Coastal construction advancing at pace for Home Group

V10 is pleased to report on the hive of activity which is underway at the Clacton-on-Sea site which was realised in collaboration with Home Group and our local contracting partner EJ Taylor.

Drone footage taken from a recent site visit shows works on this 132x plot scheme advancing with great impetus towards the delivery of a new sustainable community set within the Essex coastline for our RP client. As respected operators in the land led package deal industry V10 successfully un-locked this sizeable development opportunity within Home Group’s key operational patch and show homes are planned for an Autumn opening, following the procurement of major complex groundworks.

Here at V10 we specialise in resolving legal, planning and pre-construction matters associated with projects to be brought on stream for our Housing Association partners. Our in-house expertise has again enabled us to diligently de-risk a number of challenging technical issues in unison with EJ Taylors to ensure the site remained within the budget parameters available.

Much needed affordable housing

Home Groups values strongly accord with V10’s objectives to provide additional affordable homes where possible to meet the surrounding demand in costal locations such as Clacton-on-Sea. Moving forward, our client has elected to provide a wholly affordable mixed tenure residential development for 132 new units in total. The mix of properties will consist of one, two, three and four bedroom homes that are for shared ownership and affordable rent – to support local housing needs in the surrounding catchment.

Essex vernacular to provide kerb appeal.

The proposed sustainable community has been designed to ensure facades are to be afforded with architectural features to reflect the appearance of the surrounding vernacular of properties. Coupled with this, the scheme aligns with the criteria set out in the Essex Design Code providing ample garden and driveway sizing to all plots. Adding interest to street scenes, the scheme will contain feature house types in key focal locations which have decorative frontages and enhanced glazing features to gables providing kerb appeal throughout.

Big skies and countryside views

The site gently undulates to provide views at its top edge across open countryside with lower situated properties being configured to enjoy aspects across the generously proportioned open space area containing leisure pathways, play and ecological zones for the new community to enjoy. Much of the established hedgerows are to be retained along the existing boundaries and these will be bolstered further to create a green haven for wildlife habitats.

Delivering biodiversity and sustainability initiatives

Alongside the open space and hedgerows to be preserved there are number of additional sustainable initiatives that align with V10’s values. In this regard, a new enhanced ecological planting zone is to be created within the site to enhance biodiversity. Prior to construction commencing, wildlife species were trapped and translocated as part of an approved mitigation strategy with the LA which has now been completed.

Addressing potential flood issues, a robust drainage strategy has been formulated. In order to contain and attenuate ground water, permeable paving, swales and a large SUDS pond feature have been incorporated into the scheme providing sustainable drainage measures. These are now in place within the POS zone and can be clearly seen from the aerial footage captured by our team showing the development in its rural settling with the coastline a pebbles’ throw away!