IKon consultancy
Delivering residential developments, particularly affordable housing, in the UK has never been more challenging. Economic pressures, including high interest rates, inflation and reduced government funding, make developments less viable, while uncertain market conditions further weaken investor confidence. Planning delays due to local authority resource constraints, fire safety legislation and evolving policies on affordable housing create uncertainty and prolonged project timelines. The need for optimising your opportunity and its delivery from first concept to building handover has never been more acute. This is where the Ikon team of residential specialists can help.
Strategic Development Advice
Our expertise has been utilised by private sector clients, registered providers (RP’s) and local authorities (LA’s) delivering their own developments or seeking a more involved development role. We help clients with a full range of development services, from scheme feasibility, value optimisation and viability, delivery structure, negotiations and due diligence, development management and s106 acquisitions and disposals.
Financial viability
Here, commercial acumen enables core assumptions to be sensibly pitched, a range of sensitivities to be considered and emerging cashflows assessed from a funder’s perspective. Financial modelling and business case assessment can be dealt with ‘under one roof’ meaning a joined-up approach to working with clients bringing wider efficiency, greater understanding and increased ability to improve viability.
Project delivery
We provide expert project delivery services across Project Management, Employer’s Agent, Joint Venture Advisory, and Technical Advisory. Our team specialises in multi-phase regeneration, build to rent (BtR), market sale, senior living, and affordable housing, successfully delivering major schemes like Greenwich Peninsula and Chobham Manor, as well as significant regeneration programmes across several local authorities, including Camden, Havering, Wandsworth, and Harrow.
Working across the public, private, and third sectors, we manage projects from small developments to large-scale urban regeneration. With deep market insight, we apply key performance metrics—spanning design, programme management, pre-manufactured value, ESG, and social value - across all tenure and build types. By integrating these with broader industry data, and our innovative systems and processes, we continuously drive project efficiency while ensuring homes are safe, high-quality, and energy efficient.
Affordable Housing
We advise landowners, developers, investors, councils and registered providers on all their affordable housing needs. We have considerable expertise in the sector and can help with grant funding, affordable housing tenures, scheme viability and optimisation, financial appraisals and valuations, affordable housing (s106) acquisitions and disposals and delivery structures.
We also have a dedicated team of Project Managers and Employers Agents, who are specialist in delivering affordable housing, and advise on the technical requirements and specification for affordable schemes and manage projects through the design stages and in construction.
Our core services include:
- Project management (RIBA 0-7)
- Employer’s Agent (RIBA 3-7)
- Financial viability assessments
- Development and regeneration consultancy
- Scheme optimisation
- Options evaluation and testing
- Development solutions
- Procurement (Consultants/Contractors/Developers)
- S106 Disposal
- Affordable housing
- Project programming
Affordable housing
Our experienced team of affordable housing specialists work with landowners, developers, councils and registered providers on all their affordable housing needs. We cover all aspects of the property lifecycle from funding and initial feasibility, through to on site project management, and acquisition and disposal of completed schemes for our clients.
Our core affordable housing services include:
- Advising on affordable housing design, standards and required specification
- Affordable housing tenures and products
- Scheme viability through design efficiency and value optimisation
- Assisting with bids, funding and grant applications
- Financial appraisal for affordable housing and other tenures
- Financial Viability Assessments for planning
- Red book valuations
- Construction Project Management and Employers Agent
- Joint Venture advisory
- Technical advisory on affordable housing block purchase
- S106 disposals
We work with our colleagues in the wider Connells Group to provide further services to our clients including:
- Shared ownership sales and re-sales
- Market research
- Mortgage and conveyancing service
- Block and estate management
- Decanting and relocation services
- Lettings service
- Rent collection and arrears management.
VIEW OUR RECENT WORK
Chobham Manor, Olympic Park: Affordable housing delivery
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Development
ikon's ability to understand public and commercial markets has led to its appointments to provide real estate advice to bodies such as the Homes and Communities Agency and London Legacy Development Corporation.
In addition, our expertise has been utilised by private sector clients, housing associations (HA) and, increasingly, by local authorities (LA) seeking a more involved development role. Previous commissions have included advising local authorities which are exploring the release of public land and those seeking to capture the benefits of land sales and development. We also provide strategic advice to organisation like HAs and LAs which are undertaking major market sale activity.Key Contact
Financial viability
A core skill at ikon is the ability to model development options, whether on a bespoke basis or modelling more complex joint venture activity.
Here, commercial acumen enables core assumptions to be sensibly pitched, a range of sensitivities to be considered and emerging cash flows assessed from a funders perspective. Financial modelling and business case assessment can be dealt with ‘under one roof’ meaning a joined-up approach to working with clients bringing wider efficiency, greater understanding and increased ability to improve viability.Key Contact
Project delivery services
ikon prides itself on being able to translate a client’s vision into reality.
Our project delivery services comprise.
- Project management (RIBA 0-7)
- Employer’s Agent (RIBA 3-7)
- Procurement (Consultants/Contractors/Developers)
- Project programming
- Project Team Workshop facilitation
- Defect management (post PC)
- Risk & Value Management
- Project Brief setting
ikon’s specialist Project Managers are drawn from a variety of backgrounds including building surveying, cost consultancy and engineering (civil and building services) from both the client and contractor side. This diverse skills base enables services to be tailored to suit the varied demands of any particular commission.
Working within multi-disciplinary teams and multiple stakeholder environments, ikon’s team leads, resources, plans and successfully executes all phases of the project from inception to completion. This ensures delivery of highly successful projects on cost and programme to high internal standards which often exceed the expectations of clients. At ikon, we understand the importance of relationship management in delivering a successful project and work hard to inspire our teams through clarity, confidence and fairness. ikon provides project delivery services to all sectors of the market including Residential (private and affordable), Local Government, and Public Sector.
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