Introduction
R&U Strategic is a strategic property advice and development company. The team has extensive experience of facilitating and developing mixed use development over the short, medium and long term. We are partnership operators. We have an explicit ethos of working in partnership with our host local authority, and with all other relevant parties. In fact, we cannot work any other way.
Over the last decade we have found that we have morphed from urbanists to ruralists. We have adopted a new way of looking at how modern settlements can make the most of a strategic urban location and rural setting, relating in a mutually beneficial way to the host town, always engaging creatively with the local residential community, business community and all other stakeholders.
Our Mission:
We aim to be an exemplar, not only in the quality of our advice, and the resultant development, but also in demonstrable value-add to any location.
The R&U Strategic team comprises urban regeneration practitioners, property professionals and inward investment experts. We continually proffer solutions to the challenge of the current UK housing crisis. We are creative with new models of working, where old ones are not working. We believe that housing can be delivered commercially to a quality and at scale, in locations where people wish to live, without riding roughshod over the local community, or compromising the natural environment.
We intend to be a key partner of the local community and the Council in their role as custodian of place. Given our skillset we are uniquely placed to act as informal urban and rural regeneration partners for the whole of our host towns, not just relating to our own sites and projects.
We would seek to be embedded with our host local authority wherever possible, and to bring forward only those projects that are policy compliant with that local authority.
Our approach:
The R&U Strategic narrative is vitally important to us. Reputation is everything.
Our principles include:
Creating places that are distinctive in identity and character.
A genuine value-add. Establishing a positive relationship with existing settlements which enhances their quality and role, and which generates new potential direction for their growth.
Engage with the landscape and natural opportunities available to enhance the natural context of any site.
Facilitate new ways of living and working.
Be an exemplar in terms of the quality of our advice and the resultant built environment outcome.
Utilise best practice. Provide replicable models, applicable to other towns
Address - in strategic terms - the possible future for each of our host towns.
Help to reinforce existing communities, businesses and local facilities.
The R&U Strategic skills base:
The R&U Strategic team is multi disciplinary. We offer expertise in:
Urban regeneration
Rural regeneration
Inward investment
Local economic development
Planning application management
Professional team management
Development appraisals
Risk management
Partnership structuring for equitable profit-sharing; Memoranda of Agreement etc.
Development management
Securing government funding
Working with all statutory authorities