Development Management
Your partner in development, on your side of the table.
ADMG is the client-side development management arm of Astrantia Group. We act as the in-house development team for investors and landowners who need capacity or sector expertise, leading schemes from £30m to £150m and beyond, from first feasibility to the final handover.
Regulated by RICS · Firm no. 896890
Worked with and for
What we do
01
Feasibility & land
Appraisal, acquisition and site assembly, so a scheme starts on honest numbers.
02
Planning & consent
Strategy, design leadership and stakeholder engagement to secure permission.
03
Delivery & construction
Client-side oversight from contract to completion, protecting cost, programme and quality.
04
Team leadership
Assembling and leading the multi-disciplinary team, and keeping everyone rowing one way.
Currently under development
The schemes on our desk right now.
~40 homes
Maybourne Rise
Woking, Surrey · Leigh Place Properties
A 3.5-acre site in Woking, brought forward for 40 new homes: a mix of detached and semi-detached market, affordable and shared-ownership housing. We are promoting the site through the local plan process and preparing the planning application.
485 homes, build-to-rent
Birmingham City Centre
Birmingham · Invesco / Apo
Overseeing the final construction stages of a large build-to-rent scheme in the centre of Birmingham. Part of a major regeneration area, it delivers almost 500 rental homes alongside extensive gym and communal amenities.
Recent schemes
Delivered as development manager.
197 homes
West Byfleet
Surrey · AXA IM / Retirement Villages Group
Acquired from a Canadian UHNWI, with planning secured and a new strategic direction defined around hyper-connected, town-centre development. The first whole-life net zero carbon retirement scheme in the UK, it creates a new heart for the town with a public car park, public square, public library and 17,000 sq ft of commercial space, delivering 320,000 sq ft in all.
166 homes
Tunbridge Wells
Kent · AXA IM / Retirement Villages Group
A town-centre site that had passed through five owners in 21 years. Acquired from the Oppenheimer family and reimagined by a specialist team, overcoming difficult commercial underpinnings, a Network Rail tunnel running directly beneath, and 9m of level changes. Planning was achieved inside 12 months through genuine stakeholder engagement.
Wider track record
Sites bought and brought forward, across London and beyond.
Beyond ADMG's client engagements, the experience behind the group runs decades deep: acquiring and unlocking residential sites in some of the most demanding markets in the country, alongside the national roll-out of more than thirty Lidl food stores.
Hampstead Village
ResidentialBelsize Park
ResidentialWestminster
ResidentialBournemouth
ResidentialHarpenden
ResidentialLidl food stores
30+ Retail, NationwideIn their words
“James' knowledge of managing the delivery of retirement communities and regeneration projects in the UK is second to none. He understood our investment imperatives and delivered on his promises to us.
Private equity investor
“James was able to overcome strategically outdated thinking to deliver a commercially successful outcome. His tenacity to find a deliverable solution where others had failed over many years is what sets him apart.
Private equity investor
“ADMG has provided sector insight that has helped us to refocus our strategic direction in the world of retirement living.
Simon Westray, Sagehaus Living