Quote: Mrs Barista "I think you're mistaken saying that plans wouldn't normally be very well developed at this stage. I do property investment appraisal for a living, including retail parks, and in order to put together an initial bid we'd have, as a minimum
You have a strange and almost unique way of working if you're putting firm plans together, including a contaminated land assessment at this stage in discussions. The most people tend to do is make a quick assessment for the potential for contamination based on the lands previous use rather than the expense of full assessments as without knowing where the buildings are, an assessment's isn't even possible to assess if it's suitable.
At this stage, most schemes use generic building costs until much later in the process. To do otherwise doesn't make business sense.
I suspect the schemes you're talking of are further down the line and more simple.
As for the rest of it, you're STILL stuck in the belief that the Council should be looking at this as a singular proposal. It's that that makes them and you look very small minded.
What they should be doing is looking to see if there's a way of stitching together the elements of the concept that meet Mr Alams needs with those of the Council.
