LANGARTH FARM
Credit: www.thrivearchitects.co.uk/projects/langarth-truro/

Marcel Venn

MRICS DMS BSc (Hons) VEM DipTP MA

Marcel Venn Associates (MVA) is a bespoke chartered surveying practice specialising in advice relating to promoting land for future development. MVA develops the strategy to consider the fastest route to secure planning permission on your land.

MVA also considers the safest route, which may not be the fastest and can advise you on the costs as well as the time it will take to gain planning, MVA can also advise on as well of the value to be created in investing into the process of promoting your land, once consent is granted for development.

Managing Director Marcel Venn MRICS DMS BSc (Hons) VEM DipTP MA has more than 30 years experience in this highly specialist field. He is a Chartered Planning & Development surveyor who focused specifically in Property Valuation and Development Viability in his surveying Bachelors degree and researched Affordable Housing policy in his thesis for his Planning Masters degree. With a background in design and management too, he understands maximising land value and managing teams of consultants with aplomb.

Marcel has always been actively involved with his professional bodies the RTPI and the RICS a link to his Linkedin profile can be found here.

Marcel was awarded South West Young Surveyor of the Year in both 2009 and 2010.

Further Information

Marcel trained with Taylor Woodrow (now Taylor Wimpey) as a Land Manager specialising in both immediate and strategic land from their Bristol office covering the Greater Bristol area, Wiltshire and Somerset. Marcel then took a promotion to work for Persimmon Homes in Exeter as a Senior Land Manager covering Devon, Cornwall and Dorset. So Marcel knows the whole South West intimately with a full knowledge of all the local authority areas from Bristol to Weymouth to Truro.

Whilst working for Taylor Woodrow Marcel was involved with the identification and assembly of land, then the planning and promotion of 2 large urban extensions as well as other projects; Wichelstowe – a site for 4,000+ new homes which is now being constructed Wichelstowe and also Cranbrook – a site for 6,500+ new homes which is now being constructed Cranbrook

After working for the FTSE 100 house builders Marcel established MVA to help assist land owners promote their land and to help them deal with the large house builders on their behalf in often highly complex negotiations.

Marcel also helped establish Inox Property Group, acting to assist Inox on land identification and acquisitions as well as project promotion strategies and running projects through the planning process. Inox did numerous projects including the purchase of land for a new town on the edge of Truro for 2,000 new homes and a new Stadium for Cornwall known as Langarth Farm.

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