“bespoke land solutions” gary goodman director bxb ltd
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“Bespoke Land Solutions”
Gary GoodmanDirector BXB Ltd
What we do
We act for landowners and investors in delivering innovative and profitable land disposal schemes to the residential and commercial development markets.
With land blight often acting as a disincentive to investment, BXB serves to realise enhanced development land value through early removal of financial, planning and liability impediments.
As the planning, marketing and development processes offers significant challenges, unfamiliar to many landowners, BXB works in partnership to deliver early: investment; planning strategy and market understanding. This provides the platform for structured exit, liability transfer and value realisation.
• Land Acquisition and Sales
• Planning
• Corporate Finance
• Property and Environmental Law
• Remediation Contract Management
Who we are
BXB has four directors with collectively over 100 years experience in UK Brownfield Regeneration offering expertise in the fields.
With its extensive network of contacts, BXB is able to discuss potential sites on a confidential basis with key personnel in many of the PLC Housebuilders and Commercial Developers.
This allows BXB to determine likely demand for land in the future and provide an understanding of local, regional and national market trends.
• Structured Facility Closure
• Cash Generation for Core Business Activities
• Strategic Management of Land Portfolio
• Asset Management to meet Corporate Objectives
• Liability removal
Why BXB?
With customers ranging from owner occupiers to blue chip companies the key objectives for our customers are as follows:
• Annual house building output set to increase from 90,000 units pa to
200,000 units pa.
• LPA’s undertaking significant revision of local plans
• New Homes Bonus Scheme benefits Local Authorities
• Target for 70% of new development should be on brownfield land
• Community Infrastructure Levy could have a negative impact on land
values
• Greenfield Development is viewed as a negative by the local community
and Politicians
Why Act Now?
The Market
• UK Economy Growth
• Relaxation of planning rules
• Structural changes with Development PLCs
• UK has seen a reduction in Brownfield Development
• “Packaged” Acquisitions Preferred
• Preference for development of ‘oven ready’ Sites
• Complex sites difficult to deliver using the Traditional
Surveying Approach
Disposal Options
Constraint Land with Unknown Land Value
and Regeneration Cost
Cash Buyer
Development Sector
BXB Solution
Quick SalePeppercorn Acquisition Value
On-going Liability risk
Complex DisposalRisk Defined Land Value
Early Liability Transfer Quantification of Risk
Certainty for Legacy Management
> REWARD>
RISK
• Viability Led Planning Approach;
• Development Driven Remedial Design;
• Environmental Liability Transfer
• Financial Engineering of Balance Sheet Assets
• Shared Development Risk
• Compliance to Corporate and Legacy Objectives
BXB Solution
The BXB Service provides an alternative solution for land owners to effect the renewal of redundant landholdings, ring ‘fence’ environmental liabilities and thereby maximise financial return. The Market Driven Project Management service provides structured exits with:
The key principle of the service is to enable informed negotiation of land value andassociated development deductions.
• Land marketed with planning consent• Negotiation and completion of all Planning Agreements• Strategy Design and Agreement of Remedial Works• Quantification of Development Abnormal Cost• Land Sale Secured by Conditional Contract
Outcomes
Case Study– Albion Mill
The key terms of the deal included the following: • Sale and leaseback for a term of 3 years • £2.5M paid for the land. • £1m placed in an escrow account for remediation of the site. • £0.5M of working capital. • Negotiation of an environmental deed which secure the environmental ‘liability
transfer’ to BSL. • Remedial works was covered by a comprehensive environmental deed. • All liabilities transferred to BSL.
BXB advised two private investors in the acquisition of the former Albion Chemical works in Sandbach, Cheshire. In 2006 the vehicle, Bluefield Sandbach Limited (BSL) was incorporated to acquire the 57-acre, former Albion Chemical site from Hays Chemicals, (now called Brenntag).
Case Study - Albion MillTo date under the guidance of BXB, the following site specific operational consents have been successfully surrendered: • Top tier COMAH Status. • Waste Management License. • IPPC Consent. • Hazardous substance consent.
BXB have successfully secure planning for a mixed-use scheme.
A sale has now secured for the disposal of the site to PLC house builders for part of the site, which has planning consent for 375 residential units.
It is forecasted that this disposal will and generate a profit in excess of £10m. BSL will retain circa 15 acres of development land, which is valued at circa £5m
Can We Assist You?
Contact
Address
Web
Tel
Mob
Gary Goodman
BXB Ltd ,Exchange Station, Tithebarn Street, Liverpool L2 2QP
www.bxbltd.com
0151 324 2586
07776 241531