development vision

One of Wates Developments’ key skills is to create and deliver the development vision for a new residential project. We balance the needs of landowners and their desire to optimise value with those of the local community for appropriate and sympathetic development.

We only work with the best consultants, from planners, ecologists, engineers and architects, to landscape designers, so you can be confident that the Wates Developments team has the creativity, experience and expertise to deliver at the highest level.  With over 114 years experience in the house building sector, we believe no-one is better placed to offer landowners the vision their site demands.

Our commitment to detailed consultation with local people, close collaboration with local planning authorities and deep technical knowledge of the planning process has repeatedly helped us to deliver successfully negotiated consents for complex and sometimes contentious development applications. The ability to secure planning permission on difficult sites remains at the core of our proposition for landowners.

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Guildford Road, Woking

In 2006, working in partnership with the landowner Connolly Crowther & Haufbauer, Wates Developments secured planning permission for a major mixed-use development within Woking...

categories: acquiring land, creative joint ventures

tags: Community engagement

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Bromley, Kent

A two and a half acre brownfield site, which Wates Developments owned freehold, and achieved a planning consent for a change of use from an undesirable industrial depot to 103...

categories: development vision, london & south east

tags: brownfield, Kent

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Cuckfield, Sussex

A sensitive village setting in the heart of Sussex, this Greenfield site needed to be carefully designed to fit in with the surrounding area. Secured in 2001, it took five years to...

categories: development vision, joint ventures, london & south east

tags: Sussex