- 239
- Homes through the model
- £40.6m
- Combined contract value
- 3
- Land-led schemes
- 4-tenure
- Glenvale flagship spec
Umbrella note · Land-led is the procurement model, the schemes underneath sit across affordable, mixed-tenure and BTR. What's distinctive is BREE Construction's role: site, planning, grant and delivery on a single contract.
Glenvale Park.
- 148
- Homes
- £23m
- Contract value
- 2025
- Completed
Glenvale Park
One contract. Land, planning, grant, build.
Most contractors quote against a brief the client has already procured. Land-led inverts that: BREE Construction sources the site, secures the consent, arranges the grant funding alongside the affordable partner, and delivers on a single design-and-build contract. The partner inherits a fully-procured scheme. No land risk. No planning risk. No funding co-ordination overhead. One signature, one programme, one accountable team from acquisition through to handover.
No land risk to the partner
BREE Construction holds the freehold or leasehold position from acquisition through to handover. The partner sees a serviced, consented site against a fixed brief.
No planning risk to the partner
Pre-application, full planning and S106 negotiation handled in-house. The partner inherits a consented scheme, not a planning programme.
Grant funding secured in-house
Homes England grant arranged against the affordable element alongside the partner, £7m secured on Glenvale, similar quanta on the smaller schemes. One conversation, not three.
The 6-pillar method.
How land-led actually moves through the practice, from brief to handover, scheme after scheme.
- Pillar 1 / 6
Land sourcing + acquisition
Off-market site identification, freehold and leasehold acquisition, brownfield reactivation. The deals are structured against the partner’s programme, no abortive sites, no speculative land bank.
- Pillar 2 / 6
Planning consent + grant funding
Pre-application engagement, full planning, S106 negotiation, Homes England grant secured against the affordable element (£7m on Glenvale, similar on the smaller schemes). The partner sees a consented, grant-supported package, not a planning risk.
- Pillar 3 / 6
Tenure mix tailored to the partner
Social rent, affordable rent, shared ownership, Rent to Buy, market sale, the tenure split is shaped by the partner’s portfolio and grant conditions, not the developer’s margin. Glenvale runs four tenures cleanly across one mass.
- Pillar 4 / 6
Single point of accountability
One contract from acquisition through to handover. No three-party land-developer-contractor structure, no novated design teams, no pre-construction handovers between clients. One signature on the partner’s side, one team on ours.
- Pillar 5 / 6
Sustainability spec at every scale
Solar PV, EV charging, enhanced fabric, BREEAM Excellent on the flagship, EPC A on the smaller schemes. The land-led model lets us specify into the brief from day one rather than negotiate sustainability into a fixed-price contract after the fact.
- Pillar 6 / 6
Multi-decade partner relationships
The model only works if the partner trusts BREE Construction to hold land, planning and funding risk to programme. Stonewater on Glenvale, Futures Housing Group on Central Avenue, Flagship Homes on Wheater's Meadow, the relationships are built to repeat.
2 schemes in Land-Led.
Wheater's Meadow
