For this episode, Paul is joined by Tim Riley, director of the award-winning architectural
practice RCKa. He believes buildings can be catalysts for social change and has experience
of building homes and facilities that genuinely have transformed people´s lives and improved
areas.

You will learn how you can be involved in transforming our society by providing great
homes.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Community groups tend to be focused on delivering their services, so rarely have the
  energy and resources to dedicate to a building project.
• Consulting with the community and stakeholder groups helps you to create an
  appealing scheme.
• Only a small % of an architect´s time is spent drawing. The best architects spend a
  lot of time liaising to get the most out of a site e.g. the structural engineer and testing
  the design Fully housing policy compliant schemes rarely stack up.
• Leverage design review panels. They really are there to help.
• The later living sector is still underserved.
• Developing later living on peri urban areas makes sense.
• Communities near later living villages can also benefit from new infrastructure, shops
  and facilities.
• Later living communities are multi-generational e.g. They have play facilities for
  grandchildren.

BEST MOMENTS

"From the outset we decided that we were going to design an appeal ready scheme.”

“As a developer, the best thing you can do is focus on good design.”
“You´re delivering homes at a third of the cost land wise.”

RESOURCES
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timriley2
https://rcka.co.uk

ABOUT THE HOST
Paul Higgs is a Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor with 40+ years' experience
in land, planning and development and a 100% success track record in winning planning
consents.
Paul undertook his first refurb project when he was just 17 and then worked his way up from
labouring on building sites to becoming Head of Land for renowned plc housebuilder, Barratt
Developments. He managed to escape the corporate world in 2002 to set up what is now a
multimillion-pound award-winning property development company, Millbank Group.
In 2013 Paul founded the Millbank Land Academy, the UK’s first training company dedicated
to property development; to teach established and aspiring developers the insider secrets
the big housebuilders don’t want you to know!
Paul is also a founding investor and former board director of the industry-leading PropTech
Co, LandTech, and has lectured on Advanced Development Valuations on the MSc Property
Development at London South Bank University.

CONTACT METHOD
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-higgs
Millbank Land Academy: https://www.millbanklandacademy.co.uk
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/paulhiggsofficial
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@InsidePropertyDevelopment
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