Project Risk Management: Planning Statement for Comprehensive Development of 950 Residential Dwellin

A Planning Statement is submitted to the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (RBK) for the comprehensive development of 950 residential dwellings and other uses comprising: 1) Erection: of residential dwellings (Use Class C3) with associated ground floor uses including Class D1 (Nursery) and Community Uses; (Class A1/A3) Restaurant/Cafe? and car parking spaces, bus layover and driver facilities; landscaping and ancillary works; 2) Outline: Erection of 739 residential units (Use Class C3) with associated other ground floor uses (Class D1) Doctor Surgery; (Class A1) Retail; Cycle Hub and 328 car parking spaces. All matters reserved for the outline phase except access. Development Land And Site At 1 Hook Rise South Surbiton (located between A3, Kingston Road (A240) and Railways just behind the Tolworth Station). The site (hereafter referred to as the “Site”) is 4.4 hectares (ha) in area and has been previously occupied by a series of uniform two storey, largely temporary, buildings which ran perpendicular to the A3.

The planning application seeks full planning permission for the above items and demolition of the majority of existing buildings on the Site.

The project is currently in the planning stage, awaiting the decision from the Local Planning Authority (LPA), for Planning consent to enable a mixed use development of buildings comprising retail units and kiosks (Use Classes A1-A3), leisure including a cinema (Use Class D2), media screens, offices (Use Class B1a) and residential (Use Class C3); plant (including CHP); public and residential car parking and other associated works.

You have recently started work for the company responsible for the project 7 management of delivering this project as the previous project manager has left the company; his files are not available to you.

You take over the project when planning permission has been applied for, but not granted.

As the incoming project manager you realise there is no risk register for this project and that the programme has not been developed for the next stage (from planning to handover of finished product). There is also no stakeholder analysis.

You must prepare a project risk register and programme to cover the remainder of the project (from receiving planning permission to hand over to the Client) as well as carry out a stakeholder analysis.

You must also prepare an Executive Summary to brief the Client on the project that should include reference to the findings of your programme, risk register and stakeholder analysis. This should be a maximum of 3 sides of A4 (Arial font 11).

Assume your client is represented by Behrouz Zafari (module leader). No contact with the actual architect, contractor or Kingston Council (other than Behrouz) should be made. Severe deductions in grade will be applied if any ‘real’ company involved in the project is contacted.

1. You must not approach (including Client, Designer, Contractor) (someone else for you). Doing so would result in a penalty on your mark. Accessing websites only does not infringe this criterion.

2. A site visit is not required to undertake this assignment.

3. Dates on some of the documents provided should be ignored for the purposes of this assignment.

4. Uncertainty and assumptions: You may be uncertain on various matters; that is common in the early stages of managing a project. Your client has instructed you to make any assumptions you need to make to complete the tasks by the due date, and to provide a list of the assumptions you consider most important (if any) in an additional appendix to your executive summary report. You should take account of such uncertainty in your risk register. The Client appreciates that this will be your first report on this project, and that you are still unfamiliar with it.

5. Cost: for the avoidance of doubt, though cost is important, no cost estimate for the full value of the works is required as part of this assignment. However rough estimates of cost of risk as part of the risk register is. Risk estimates will not be marked for realistic accuracy, but should be completed as part of the process. No resourcing estimate is required.