Welcome

Beacon Partnership is a housing, development and regeneration consultancy that offers a wide range of products and services to Housing Associations, Local Authorities and developers.

We have extensive knowledge and experience in financial modelling, development, regeneration and housing management services.

Our services cover the entire development process and can start from the early conceptual stage through to post-completion and beyond.

Our products include a number of Excel-based, Development Financial Viability toolkits. We also build bespoke toolkits for our clients.

Services

  • Development of Bespoke Viability Toolkits

    • We build bespoke development appraisal and project management toolkits to meet the needs and requirements of your organisation.

  • Financial Viability Modelling, Analysis and Review

    • We specialise in the financial modelling of Affordable Housing, and are familiar with the range of toolkits that are available to model Residual Land Value. We also have our own in-house suite of financial modelling toolkits which we use in undertaking our assessments. We undertake financial viability modelling of complex, difficult and even problematic schemes.

  • Independent Financial Viability Assessments

    • Our approach to Financial Viability Assessments is to understand the elements of a scheme that hinder viability and what helps make affordable housing or financial contributions achievable on site. In undertaking an assessment we will:

    • Review planning policy
    • Review, benchmark and test key inputs, costs and assumptions
    • Work to maximise affordable housing and contributions

    We have extensive experience of working with Local Authorities and housing providers in securing affordable housing and deliverable schemes.

  • Development and Regeneration Support

    • We can provide a range of support and advice to your development activities that cover the whole development process from inception to the rectification of defects and the whole project management process in between.

  • Interim Development Placements

    • We can provide interim development support / cover in New Business, Delivery and Programme from Project Manager to Head of Development and Director level.

  • Strategies, Policies & Procedures

    • We have extensive experience of preparing strategies, policies and step by step procedure guidance that covers all aspects of the development process.

  • Research, Bids, and Training

    • We undertake research and can help you prepare bids, tenders and offers. We also can provide development and financial modelling training.

  • HCA / GLA Pre-Audit Assessments

    • We undertake HCA and GLA pre-audit assessments for your development schemes and projects.

  • Other Development Services

    • We offer:

    • Support for local authorities developing Section 106 affordable housing options
    • Construction management and Technical support

  • Fire Safety Consultancy Services

    • We offer:

    • Fire Safety Training for Development and Housing Staff, Clerk of Works and Site Inspectors
    • Fire Safety Training for Directors and Board Members
    • Fire Safety Strategy Review and Updates
    • Fire Safety Process Review and Implementation
    • Fire Risk Assessments
    • Review of Development Plan
    • Post PC & Defects Inspections

  • Housing and Other Services include:

    • We offer:

    • Strategic oversight, governance and business planning
    • Change Management
    • Housing Management and Maintenance services
    • Asset Management services
    • Void management and process reviews
    • Compliance and Health and Safety
    • Technical and Engineering services
    • Performance Improvement
    • Service Specification, Contract Development, Contract Procurement
    • Dispute and Contract resolution
    • Bid writing and Presentation
    • Service Reviews
    • Community Based Regeneration
    • Project Management
    • Coaching
    • Sales and Marketing

    Products

    Optimix (Appraisal Toolkit)

    Optimix is an Excel-based financial viability toolkit used to assess the financial performance of development projects. This user-friendly intuitive toolkit offers the following:

    • Multi-tenure modelling
    • Sensitivity analysis
    • Efficiency modelling
    • Rent loss for regeneration schemes
    • Stock transfer modelling
    • Clear reporting
    • Full transparency
    • Protection
    • Internal audit checks

    The toolkit can be used for the early stage high level scheme appraisal through to the more detailed project management of the scheme.

    Optimix (Consolidation Tool)

    The Optimix consolidation tool is a programme-level consolidating and monitoring tool that allows detailed reporting against a number of key parameters. It works seamlessly with the Optimix appraisal toolkit with a simple data input function.

    This tool allows consolidation of schemes or phases to view all projects on a programme basis. Users can understand development spend projections on a yearly or monthly basis and turn off schemes to see their impact on the overall programme.

    The tool offers the current outputs:

    • Scheme summary
    • Programme summary (including benchmarking and financial performance).
    • Revenue cash-flow summary
    • An 80-year revenue cash-flow
    • A 10-year development cashflow

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    Phone our office on: 020 3066 1061

    Our office address is: Beacon Partnership LLP | 251 Temple Chambers | 3-7 Temple Avenue | London | EC4Y 0DT