Test Valley Borough Council appointed Newsteer as lead consultant to turn its town centre masterplan into a viable delivery strategy. We led the multidisciplinary team, tested redevelopment and phasing options and built a dynamic financial model to identify an optimal funding and delivery route.
The client’s challenge
A masterplan devised during the pandemic needed to be retested against post-pandemic retail, property and funding conditions so the Council could understand what was genuinely deliverable.
Our solution
Newsteer project-managed a multidisciplinary team, tested redevelopment options, valued Council-owned feeder sites and built a dynamic financial model to compare different phasing and funding scenarios.
Beyond advice: how we added value
Rather than treating the masterplan as a design exercise, Newsteer embedded commercial deliverability into the strategy, connecting design ambition, public assets, phasing, funding and partner selection.
Outcomes and impact
The work identified an optimal funding and delivery route for the emerging design and provided the Council with a commercially grounded strategy for attracting the right delivery partner or partners.
