Housing Development Lawyers | Housing Infrastructure Legal Advice

Overview

Housing is increasingly treated as its own asset class within a masterplan, enabling developers, investors and the government to deliver infrastructure projects. Our recent report Perspectives on infrastructure: Housing includes interviews with business leaders from the housing and infrastructure sectors (including Legal & General, HSBC, TfL and St Modwen) and examines this concept in more detail.

Our experienced housing team provides technical excellence and commercially astute legal advice to housebuilders, mixed use developers, banks, funds, investors, landowners and the public sector. Our team supports UK and international clients on housing M&A, disputes, regeneration, investment, energy services, strategic land, joint ventures and development agreements. Our advice has resulted in the construction of thousands of new homes and other infrastructure.

We are committed to enabling our clients to invest in, fund and develop housing led development projects through an holistic approach that achieves wider commercial and public sector objectives generating further important investment in UK housing infrastructure.

Areas of focus

Our housing expertise includes the following:

Build to rent
Corporate M&A
Disputes
Energy services
Funding
Housing investment
Housing infrastructure
Public sector
Regeneration projects
Retirement housing
Student housing
Planning
Construction
Real estate
Environmental
Strategic land
Tax
Transport solutions

We operate across the UK including in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Experience

Advising FB Investors on its recommended partial cash offer for Sutton Harbour, an AIM listed company. Sutton Harbour is an award-winning waterfront regeneration specialist which owns and operates the historic Plymouth harbour and Plymouth airport.

Advising Malaysian-owned developer YTL on its entry to the UK housing market with the purchase of the former Filton Airfield, which has the potential for a mixed use regeneration including 2,675 homes and up to 24ha of employment land.

Advising St Modwen on its development agreement with Homes England to develop Locking Parklands, a new £400 million mixed-use 200 acre site. The site will create approximate 600,000 sq ft of employment space, 1450 new homes, a district centre, new schools, libraries and retail facilities.

Advising MAAS Capital Renewables B.V. in relation to a joint venture partnership between it and Solarplicity Limited in a residential asset company set up to install rooftop solar for supplying thousands of tenants of Housing Associations in the UK.

Acting on behalf of the landowner of Cardiff’s 7,000 home new ‘Garden City' providing strategic land advice for the ‘Plasdwr’ development.

Acting for Change Real Estate and a family office on the redevelopment of the 600,000 sq,ft Redcliff Quarter housing led mixed use development in Bristol’s city centre.

Acting for HSBC bank in relation to £80 million of facilities to a joint venture between Kier Developments and various social housing providers.

Acting for RBS and HSBC in relation to development and investment finance to Unite Students for over £500 million for residential accommodation.

Meet the team