Apartment and multi-plot schemes built as main contractor for developers and housing associations, from the roads and drainage to the end of the defects period.
Residential development
The Lynch Brother Group builds residential development schemes as main contractor for Oxford and Oxfordshire: apartment blocks, mixed-use buildings and multi-plot schemes. We deliver them under new build construction, with groundworks, masonry, screed, render and decoration in-house. We work for developers, housing associations and landowners bringing a site forward, under a commercial contract, to the scheme's own drawings and handover dates. Send us the tender pack or the consented scheme; we price it package by package.
Apartment blocks, and the mixed-use buildings that put shops or offices under them, built under new build construction. The frame is its specialist's under our management; the masonry and the screed are our own teams'. The envelope (the roof, walls, windows and doors that make the block weathertight) is closed, and every unit is finished and handed over on one programme.
A site of plots built as one job. The spine road and the drainage go in first, as the haul road for everything after. Each plot then runs through groundworks, structure, envelope, screed, first fix (the pipes and cables in the walls), second fix (the fittings on them) and decoration under one site manager. The plots complete in the order the developer's handover plan sets, and each is handed over as it finishes.
Our own groundworks teams clear the site, dig the foundations and lay the drainage and the service trenches to each plot. The spine road and the sewers go in first, built to adoptable standard under the section 38 and section 104 agreements the developer holds with the highway authority and the water company, so the road that serves the plots is the road the council will adopt.
For other main contractors and for developers with their own site team, liquid screed, spray render and external wall insulation as a package, priced from the drawings, booked into your programme and done by the teams that do it on the schemes we build as main contractor.
Decorating, tiling and the final finishes on a scheme built by others, unit by unit to the developer's specification, with the snags closed before the developer's inspection.
An office, a commercial building or the upper floors of a shop converted to apartments for a developer under fit out and refurbishment, with the structure, the services and the fire separation between units built to the drawings and the building regulations.
The defects period (the months after handover in which the contractor puts faults right at its own cost), run by the team that built the scheme, so the developer has one contractor to call for the defects its buyers report. Planned maintenance can follow for the block's managing agent.
A developer's scheme runs on a commercial contract, on the JCT form your quantity surveyor names: design and build, traditional or two-stage. We price it from the drawings, package by package, and the price and the programme are fixed together. The trades that set the pace are the group's employees, so when the handover plan changes the order of the plots, the people we re-sequence are ours.
An Oxford site comes with neighbours: occupied buildings on the boundary, a road that must stay open, a school run past the gate. The party wall awards are your surveyor's; we work to the hours and conditions they set. We draft the construction management plan the consent's conditions call for: the hoarding line, the deliveries, the crane and the hours. The site manager keeps to it.
The programme is written to the developer's sales plan or the housing association's handover dates. Building control inspects the set stages and so does the developer's warranty provider (NHBC, LABC Warranty or Premier Guarantee, whose ten-year cover the buyers' lenders require). Each unit reaches practical completion in the order the client needs, and the developer takes it while the rest of the site is still building.
A scheme comes to us at tender, or earlier under a two-stage route, with its consent, its drawings and the dates its funding and its sales or lettings depend on. The developer with an apartment block on an infill site in the city wants a main contractor who can build inside a tight boundary. The housing association with a multi-plot site in a market town wants its handover dates held. The contractor with a scheme under way wants the screed, the render or the decoration as a package, on a date.
On each, the trades that set the pace are the group's own: groundworks, masonry, screed, render, external wall insulation and decoration. The frame is a specialist's under our management, and the windows, the kitchens and the bathrooms are specialist packages under our contract, each booked to the plot it belongs to. One site manager runs the sequence, so when the developer moves a handover date the trades we re-order are the group's own, not another firm's.
The sites are the city's infill plots, the villages and the market towns, under the conditions the city and district councils attach to a residential consent. Wayside House, built by the group, is one of them.
What each company in the group does is on the group page; on this page we are the contractor a developer appoints. The method behind a new building is on the new build construction page, and main contracting sets out the contract routes.
Science & Laboratories
Lab fit out and refurbishment
Workspace & Offices
Cat A, Cat B and full building refurbishment
Retail
Shopfitting and fit outs that open on time
Hospitality
Refurbishments designed around trading hours
Education
Schools and colleges; summer works a speciality
Student Accommodation
Build and refurb, timed to the academic year
Residential Development
Multi-plot schemes, groundworks to handover
Heritage & Listed
Conservation-grade work on period buildings
How a residential scheme runs
Every scheme is priced from its own drawings. Ask us for yours.
Main Contracting
Main contractor and design and build partner
New Build Construction
Offices, labs, education and residential development
Fit Out & Refurbishment
Cat A, Cat B and full refurbishment
Dilapidations
Strip out, repairs and making good, for tenants and landlords
Retrofit & Decarbonisation
External wall insulation, render systems and energy upgrades
Screed, Render & Insulation
Liquid screed, spray rendering and external wall insulation
Decorating & Finishes
High-end decorating and tiling — the final finish
Property Management & Maintenance
Planned maintenance for landlords and businesses
From the site office
Yes. A developer, a housing association or a landowner brings us a consented scheme. We build it under a commercial contract as main contractor: one price and one programme from the groundworks to the defects period, with one contractor answerable for both. The frame, the windows, the kitchens and the bathrooms are specialist packages under our contract and management; groundworks, masonry, screed, render and decoration are our own trades.
Yes. Apartment blocks and mixed-use buildings with shops or offices on the ground floor are built under new build construction to the developer's architect's and engineer's drawings. The fire separation (the walls and floors that hold a fire in one apartment) is built to the drawings and inspected by building control at the set stages, and the sound insulation between units is tested before completion, as the Building Regulations require. Every unit is finished and decorated to the developer's specification.
Yes. Other main contractors and developers with their own site team book our screed, render and insulation and decorating and finishes teams as packages. We price from the drawings and the plot schedule, fix the dates in your programme, and check each plot before we pour, spray or paint. The same teams do this work on our own projects. Tell us the plot numbers, the specification and the dates you need.
In the order the developer needs. Practical completion is certified per plot, with its building control completion certificate and the warranty provider's certificate, which the buyer's lender needs before it releases the mortgage. The keys and the records go to the developer, whose sales team completes with the buyer while the site is still building. The roads, the drainage and the landscaping are finished to the consent and the adoption agreements, and the defects period runs from each completion.
We price a scheme from the drawings, package by package, and show the developer's quantity surveyor what each package costs. The ground and the foundations, the frame, the number of units and the specification of each, the roads and services a multi-plot site needs, and the neighbours the site has to work round all move the price. We give no rate per unit, because two schemes of the same size on different ground are different jobs. Send us the drawings.
The contractor. A developer finds the site, funds it, obtains the planning consent, appoints the consultants and the contractor, and sells or lets the units. A contractor builds the scheme to the developer's drawings, under the developer's contract, and answers for the programme, the site and the quality. We are the contractor: developers, housing associations and landowners bring us the consented scheme and we build it. What each company in the group does is on our group page.
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