Strategic Land

Securing or disposing of land to deliver new homes and communities is a complex process requiring expert advice. Our long established Strategic Land team has extensive experience working on both greenfield and brownfield sites with medium to long term development potential for residential development.

We work with a wide range of landowners, promoters and developers and we have an in depth knowledge of the legal structures and issues relating to the promotion of strategic land to development stage so as to unlock value and deliver new communities.

Our integrated approach combines the specialist expertise of our real estate and planning lawyers with our construction, tax, trusts and corporate specialists. We work with our clients at every stage, from structuring the initial transaction, through to planning and development. Our services include:

• Structuring advice in relation to heads of terms in respect of promotion agreements, strategic options, conditional contracts, overage arrangements, joint ventures and collaboration agreements;
• Transactional real estate advice – taking the deal through from heads of terms stage to conclusion;
• Planning advice – including section 106 agreements, planning appeals and environmental issues;
• Tax and trusts advice – including strategic estate planning, tax issues linked to joint ventures and land pooling; and
• Tenancies and third party occupiers – including achieving vacant possession and dealing with third party tenancies and leases.

Alongside our Strategic Land practice, we also have a particularly strong residential development practice. We act for a broad range of developers in the acquisition of land for short term residential development, setting up schemes for disposal and selling plots. The depth of our industry knowledge gained from operating extensively in this sector means that we are exceptionally well placed to navigate the risks and challenges which arise when advising clients in relation to medium or longer term strategic land.