Services: for Residential | Carvil Ventures

Services: for Residential

Tailored advice for residential development

Carvil aims to provide tailored support to house builders and residential developers so that its clients understand the risk and opportunities on potential schemes in order to maximise their potential and provide quality residential developments.

Services that Carvil can provide include the following:

Site specific political and stakeholder intelligence;
Community engagement with local amenity groups, local businesses, resident organisations and other relevant stakeholders;
Political engagement with key politicians within the relevant planning authority and the Greater London Authority, including relevant Cabinet Members, officers and ward councillors;
Preparation of presentation material for public exhibitions, public meetings and one-to-one meetings
Production of press releases and management of media;
Organise public exhibition and public meetings as appropriate;
Production of the Statement of Community Involvement;
Organising post-submission communications;
Community and political engagement during construction phase

Case Study

Surrey Docks Stadium site and St Paul’s Fields

Carvil was engaged by Fairview New Homes to provide a political audit of its prospects of securing a successful planning to redevelop the old Surrey Docks Stadium site creating 101 new homes on the old depot buildings, a three and a half acre community park and a linked scheme to upgrade St Paul’s Fields to create a new community sports hub an a new home for Fisher FC.

Carvil produced a report highlighting the key political risk associated with a scheme there that assisted Fairview in its decision to acquire the Surrey Docks stadium site. Carvil was subsequently engaged by Fairview to lead the public affairs and stakeholder consultation programme associated with the planning application arranging meetings with the key politicians and stakeholders as well as organising a public exhibition and securing unanimous support from Southwark’s Planning Committee when the matter was determined in July 2014.

Construction of both the St Paul’s Stadium and the housing are complete with Fisher FC going to strength to strength in its new stadium. Southwark Council acquired the affordable housing within the scheme.