Deciding whether a project is worth building, and what should be built on a given site. The layer above the metrics: it takes what a site can legally yield, stacks the costs against the revenues period by period, and turns that into a go / no-go and a recommended scheme. Assumes the metrics themselves are already understood (see valuation-project-economics) and that the spreadsheet mechanics are in place (see financial-modelling-excel).
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A developer is bidding for a city-centre plot and has asked what it is worth to them. A metropolitan authority is planning a bus terminal on a similar plot and has asked whether it is viable. Is that the same piece of work?
The machinery is the same and the question at the end is not. Both start from what the plot can legally hold — FSI, ground coverage, setbacks — convert that to saleable or usable area, and stack land, construction, approvals, finance and contingency against a phased revenue line to produce a cash flow. For the developer you then run that backwards: take the finished value, strip out costs and the profit the deal has to earn, and what remains is the most they can bid — and you test two or three alternative schemes to see which use the site actually rewards. For the authority the same cash flow will come back negative, because the returns are mostly not cash. There the answer is not no-go but how the gap is closed — viability gap funding, a PPP structure, or a value-capture component — and the reasoning ends up in the DPR that funds it.
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Concept 1
Concept 1 · What a feasibility study actually decides
Concept 2
After: what-feasibility-answers
FSI, ground coverage and setbacks turned into an actual buildable number for a plot.
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Concept 3
After: what-the-site-can-yield
The full stack of cost heads a development carries, laid out side by side.
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Concept 4
After: development-cost-stack, what-the-site-can-yield
A development laid out across its programme — money out, money in, and the net line that falls out of it.
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Concept 5
After: development-pro-forma
Finished value, minus costs, minus the profit the deal has to earn — and what is left is the land.
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Concept 6
After: residual-land-value
Alternative uses for one site, run against four tests until one survives all of them.
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Concept 7
After: development-pro-forma
Key inputs moved one at a time, and a grid showing how far the answer travels.
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Concept 8
After: development-pro-forma
What an authority does with a project whose cash flow is negative and whose case is still sound.
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Concept 9
After: development-pro-forma, sensitivity-and-scenarios
The document a public project is actually funded from, and which part of it this analysis becomes.
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Planning roles inside large urban development authorities and parastatals that build and regulate metro-scale development — master plans, town-planning schemes, land development, and large infrastructure projects. Often better-resourced and better-paid than small-state T&CP. Specialisation tags: Urban, Infrastructure, Transport.
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Explore path →Working for developers, land/real-estate advisory firms (JLL, CBRE, Knight Frank, Anarock) and in-house development teams on feasibility, market research, land use, and project planning. A natural fit for a planning + real-estate lens. Specialisation tags: Urban, Housing, Infrastructure.
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Explore path →Urban, transport, and infrastructure work at the multilateral banks — project preparation, technical assistance, and analytics, usually entered via consultant/STC contracts or (rarely, very competitively) the Young Professionals Program. Specialisation tags: Urban, Infrastructure, Transport.
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