Track record
Rights to Light Framework for Westminster City Council, London
Provided a Rights to Light consultancy services framework operating over 4 years
Neighbourly Matters
Rights to Light
Service
Local Authority
Industry
Dan Tapscott
The project
Rapleys was successful in winning a tender to provide Rights to Light consultancy services framework. The framework operates over 4 years and has an estimated fee value of £1.5m spread across a total of 3 consultants. Rapleys is now actively engaged on multiple projects with the Council.
These projects typically comprise the demolition of former garage sites and the construction of new housing blocks that are situated within close proximity to various neighbouring stakeholders, including Council tenants and private individuals. Rights to Light considerations are high on the risk register for this client, as they should be for any who are regularly carrying out development in city centres or dense urban locations. This is not only in terms of litigation risk but in terms of minimising project delays, controlling project costs and avoiding reputational harm for the client in the local community.
Our solution
- Established and developed positive working relationships with our client contacts
- Put in place a bespoke suite of templates as well as a reporting and tracking procedure
- Recruited additional staff on the basis of this commission
- Encouraged regular review sessions with this client. Rapleys thrive on feedback (good or bad)
- Embedded ourselves into the team and are familiar faces in our clients’ offices
- Delivered CPD seminars to our clients’ wider team regarding our Neighbourly Matters service.
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Partner & Head of Neighbourly Matters – Building Consultancy
Dan Tapscott
Our track record
Stadium Holdings Ltd
1 Olympic Way, Wembley
Neighbourly Matters advice for a 7-storey extension to provide student accommodation
Yorkshire Housing
12,000 Stock Condition Surveys – Yorkshire Housing
Appointed by Yorkshire Housing via the Fusion21 Framework to complete 12,000 stock condition surveys over a 3-year period
Kruton No. 2
9-12 Middle Street, Brighton
Appointed as Employer’s Agent on new build commercial project.
Kwik Fit
Acquisition for Kwik Fit, Atex Business Park, Stowmarket
Instructed by Kwik Fit as national retained acquisition agents
Bernard Construction
Affordable housing provisions for a mixed-use scheme, Balham
Provided a detailed FVA, development advice and affordable housing strategy
Higgins Homes
Affordable Housing valuation for a mixed use scheme, Garratt Lane, Wandsworth
Development Consultancy advice to support a planning application for a mixed use scheme
London and Regional
Albert Island Redevelopment
Providing Cost Management & Quantity Surveying services on an exemplar industrial intensification project
Aldersbrook Baptist Church
Aldersbrook Baptist Church, Wanstead
Sale of church hall and provision of cost advice regarding development and refurbishment of church.
Ropemaker Properties Limited
Alfa Laval Tower, Brentford
Assessed the financial viability of the scheme for a planning appeal
Orchard Street Investment Management
Altrincham Retail Park expansion
Secured planning permission via a Section 78 appeal