Baily Consult
Independent Development and Construction Consultancy.
We support owners, businesses, investors and developers with their projects. Our services cover every stage, from the first appraisal to completion, and help clients deliver successful schemes.
All our work is grounded in thorough analysis and in how each decision helps our clients achieve successful outcomes from their projects.
London, Central and South England.
Our services
Advice to assess, improve and deliver.
Appoint us for a defined review or for continuing support alongside your team. Our work is organised around four connected areas of expertise.
Development & Investment Advisory
Assess opportunities, compare options and test the assumptions behind a development decision.
Preconstruction & Delivery Strategy
Bring design, cost, sequencing and procurement together into a realistic plan for delivery.
Development & Project Management
Represent the client's interests, coordinate the work and manage the decisions needed to progress a scheme.
Construction Programming & Advisory
Prepare and review programmes, test sequencing and provide supporting analysis of progress and the works.
Not sure which service fits? Tell us what you need to decide or deliver.
AI in construction
Turning expert know-how into tools your team can use.
We build practical AI tools for developers, contractors and consultants: reviewing planning packs, comparing tenders, checking programmes, drafting reports and keeping compliance records current. The expert stays in charge; the tool does the reading and the first draft.
- Automating skillsCapturing how your best people do a task, so the whole team can run it.
- Built and in useIncluding CTS BuildSafe for building safety compliance and Residual for development appraisals, both built by Philip Baily.
- One task firstA review, then a working tool in about two weeks.
Projects & experience
The work behind the advice.
A selection of projects, from single sites and buildings to large London masterplans.
Client: GPS Marine and Civil ServicesIndustrial buildings, Kent
Feasibility and options appraisal for three industrial buildings: assessing occupation costs for one and routes to value for the others.
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Client: Elite Group603 Commercial Road, Limehouse
Client-side project management support through delivery difficulties and practical completion.
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Client: Elizabeth HomesDevelopment & acquisition advisory
Site sourcing, project appraisals, technical and commercial due diligence, and cost planning.
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Large-scale masterplan · Nine ElmsNine Elms Park
756 homes over a full-site basement above London Underground tunnels.
Read the case studyOur approach
The development case and the delivery plan need to agree.
On every appointment we bring development, commercial and construction thinking together, so each decision is tested against what it means for the whole project and for the outcome our client is aiming for.
Baily Consult is led by Philip Baily, bringing developer-side preconstruction experience and a practical background in construction delivery. Appointments can address a specific decision or provide continuing support as a scheme progresses.
10,000+ homes · £5bn+ development valuePhilip Baily's experience across schemes assessed through investment gateways and preconstruction.
Insights
Practical thinking on development and delivery.
Guides, project lessons and commentary on the decisions that affect cost, programme and return.
What a development feasibility study covers, and what it costs to skip one
What goes into a feasibility study, who contributes to it, and the mistakes it is there to prevent.
Why development sites fail, and how gateways keep them viable
Most schemes do not fail on one decision. They drift. Due diligence before you buy, and a gateway at each stage after, is how to stop it.
Keeping the approved case alive through delivery
How schemes drift from the case that was approved, one decision at a time, and how to see it early.