Property Development
Whether you are purchasing greenfield or brownfield sites, or old buildings, to develop or refurbish, or if you are selling to developers, we have the expertise to provide you with a comprehensive legal solution to support you throughout the transaction.
We have one of the largest and most experienced property development legal teams in the Thames Valley, acting for a wide range of developers from well-known commercial and residential developers, to smaller boutique construction companies and sole traders. We also represent a large number of landowners, both in the Thames Valley and nationally, owning sites suitable for development.
Our team of lawyers cover all aspects of property development including:
- purchases and disposals, whether on an immediate or ‘subject to planning’ basis
- taking and granting options
- title investigation and in particular the easements and restrictive covenants affecting a site
- boundary assessment and disputes
- advising on planning agreements
- advising on Biodiversity Net Gain obligations
- construction appointments, warranties and third party rights
- designing letting or sale schemes and doing pre-lets or advance sales
We also help you through all aspects of the implementation of development, from agreements with utility suppliers and the highways authority, planning agreements and disposals to affordable housing providers. We also work alongside our dedicated residential sales team ensure a smooth site set up and plot sales process for our developer clients.
Examples of our recent work include:
- Acquiring a residential development site with consent for 184 units across three phases of a luxury scheme in the Thames Valley.
- Purchasing a 78 unit scheme in very short time frame for a large residential developer.
- Selling the site of a 249 residential unit scheme for an educational institution to a national housebuilder.
- Acquisition for development of a former public house for its conversion and subsequent disposal of a mixed use scheme comprising 54 residential units including 16 affordable housing apartments.
- Purchasing the site for development of a national centre for research and manufacture of vaccines, including all construction procurement for its development.
- Disposal for a landowner of 52 acres of land for development to a national housebuilder following the grant of outline planning consent.
- Negotiating an option agreement for a landowner leading to the option being exercised resulting in a disposal of a development for 55 residential units.
- Advising a developer on the means of procurement of construction work on the redevelopment of a former medical facility in South Wales; dealing with a pre-let agreement conditional on practical completion to a well-known national convenience retailer of the same premises.
- Advising a national housebuilding group on the pre-letting of the commercial element of a largely residential development, under construction near Southampton, including advising on the required development specifications and warranty packages; also pre-selling the investment interest in the same, to be effective at practical completion.
- Advising a private landowner on the sale of a 104 residential scheme, to include a village hall and nursery.
