Biography

I have been working in the planning and development industry for over 25 years and throughout my career so far have managed schemes from one house to significant garden village schemes with multiple landowners for 2700 homes and everything in between.

My specialism is in advising landowners on how to dispose of land, most commonly through agreements with housebuilders like promotion or option agreements, overage structures and hybrid agreements. Your personal ambition and situation will dictate how and on what basis you engage with a buyer.

The single commonality is that selling land particularly with increasing planning value is complex and has become a specialism in its own right; so it is important to get the right advise from the outset to make sure you are making the right decisions based on the right information.

I started Lightwood Group over 23 years ago and during that time have become a charted town planner - member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and also a licensed registered valuer with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

I spend most of time advising and representing landowners on complex planning and disposals and have reached a stage in my career where I am regularly asked to take an advisory role.

If you have a landholding that is over 10 acres and would like informal advise, please feel free to email me on james@valuemyland.uk.

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