West End

Development within the West End is never straightforward, with many hurdles to overcome in relation to planning, conservation, target uses, securing vacant possession, rights of light and potential freeholder constraints.

Strutt & Parker's West End team incorporates the specialist disciplines of investment, agency and professional services, which combine to provide considered and market-facing property development advice to ensure that the optimum scheme is devised and progressed.

Proven success

As a team, we have advised on numerous redevelopment schemes across the West End over the recent period, including 40 Berkeley Square, an 80,000 sq ft office development; 25 St George Street, a 30,000 sq ft office building combined with five high-end residential apartments; the former Dickens & Jones department store on Regent Street, 80,000 sq ft of offices above new retail units; and 44-48 Dover Street, a 35,000 sq ft office building combined with 13 residential units.

In each case, Strutt & Parker has worked closely alongside architects, planning consultants, structural and M&E surveyors, and quantity surveyors to ensure that the client's objectives are achieved by managing the overall development process. Our market-facing expertise is fully utilised to ensure that the ultimate scheme matches end occupier requirements, and the introduction of our leasing advisory team at an early stage creates a full endorsement of the completed building.

We see development as a seamless role, bringing together many specialists from the initial feasibility stage through to construction and the letting or sale process. Development is a long-term process and we are long-term advisors.