Development - Bouygues UK

We are experts in development, creating vibrant communities where people can thrive.

Bouygues UK’s strength lies in our agility, enabling us to collaborate effectively with clients and tailor our approach to each project. We handle the full lifecycle of each development, including land sourcing, design and planning, sales and marketing, and project management, ensuring maximum value at every stage.

Our schemes evolve from individual buildings to interactive spaces, offering better connected and more personal experiences for those who use them. All of our projects are built in-house, under bespoke contracts tailored to our client’s unique requirements.

We have the strength to unlock large and complex placemaking projects while also having the flexibility to manage smaller, more intimate schemes. Our collaboration with clients ensures the creation of resilient, sustainable, and future-proofed buildings, consistently unlocking maximum value throughout the process.

Highly adaptable in our approach, Bouygues UK can seize opportunities at any stage of development. We aim to optimise value for landowners, end users, and local communities. Our portfolio encompasses wholly owned schemes, public/private partnerships, joint ventures, and development management projects.

Our buildings have been purchased by some of the UK and Europe’s leading development, investment and asset management businesses, who value the people-focussed approach inherent to the Bouygues UK brand and the certainty of delivery which our expertise and covenant strength guarantees.

With our agile partnership model and expert team, Bouygues UK is the development partner of choice for inclusive, community-led regeneration.

OUR APPROACH

We source and review land opportunities which meet our target requirements, from private off-market acquisitions to partnership opportunities and structured procurement processes with the public sector.

We move quickly, by relying on our in-house expertise to evaluate development opportunities rapidly. We are flexible as to deal structure and offer certainty to our partners through our proven track record and covenant strength.

Our team of development professionals seeks to unlock value at each stage in the development cycle and ensure that our regeneration strategy is sustainable and fundable. By working alongside our construction teams from the outset we deliver cost certainty and buildability from the very beginning of a project.

We deploy an experienced development manager to each project from inception to completion which strengthens ownership of the development brief and ensures continuity of knowledge.

We work in partnership with local communities and planning authorities to secure approval for projects which are inclusive, deliverable and financially viable.

Bouygues UK has an enviable track record of securing market-leading and often high-profile planning consents ranging from smaller scale single buildings through to complex multi-phase master plans across all sectors.

With our in-house project finance team, Bouygues UK has the flexibility and expertise to structure the right funding solution for each project. We have funded the delivery of some 31 developments with a total construction value of £5 billion.

Funding avenues include balance sheet solutions, forward funding through our established investor network, project finance solutions, income strip, bond raisings, factoring and more.

As a leading UK Tier 1 contractor, we have delivered some 26 schemes under our development brand.

We offer a full end-to-end service, from the initial feasibility study through to on site project management and post completion services via our inhouse Operations Team.

Our role isn’t just about designing and building spaces. It’s about defining our product and building the brand, too.

From the outset of each project, our sales & marketing team will understand what’s important to our customers, partners and funders – be they public or private sector – and ensure this permeates throughout the development brief and translates into a successful marketing campaign.

Bouygues UK is an experienced investor/operator across retail, commercial, residential and student accommodation projects.

By formulating bespoke asset management strategies, we ensure the completed product is stabilised and operated in a manner which facilitates a clean exit and generates maximum value.

Bouygues UK is a bespoke property developer. We understand that each project has different requirements and needs.

What connects all our projects is the objective to maximise value for landowners, local communities and the people who live, work and spend time in our developments.