Strategic Land

Acting for a group of private landowners in a promotion agreement relating to the potential residential development of a 100 acre site near Exeter, including a landowner’s agreement regulating the complex relationship between the land-owning parties and providing for a land pooling trust and equalisation of the sale proceeds.

Acting for a leading regional developer in the securing of options to acquire land for residential development where our role includes the provision of detailed structuring advice and the development of bespoke documents addressing a range of planning contexts with input from our planning team.

Acting for a landed estate in the north of England in relation to circa 1000 acres of the Estate’s lands which are zoned for inclusion in the Greater Manchester Development Framework for industrial/distribution/ residential and mixed use development. This involves complex agreements with a joint venture consortium addressing issues such as the treatment of major up front infrastructure, and tax suspension arrangements.

Acting for a leading regional land promoter in securing a promotion agreement relating to land for residential development with provision, for example, for the promotion of sites in phases, the disposal of consented sites in tranches and arrangements dealing with the provision of roads and services to adjoining land as well as acquisitions, onward sales and the exercise of options.

Acting for private landowners in South Wales in relation to a major land holding within the local plan for housing development involving a series of option agreements with a national house builder, renewals and extensions of options and guidance from our planning team through the planning and infrastructure processes necessary to unlock the land for development.

Acting for a group of local authorities in Essex in relation to the initial promotion and due diligence stage of an exciting garden communities’ project for the delivery of over 10,000 proposed new homes in three garden communities to be supported by the delivery of new roads and infrastructure.

Acting for a landed estate in Devon which has embarked on a series of joint venture agreements with national and regional house builders to deliver sites with permission for more than 500 new homes in East Devon with provision to allow the Estate to exercise control over quality and design to secure its legacy as well as to share in the profits of the ventures.

Acting for an offshore landowning trust in relation to the sale to a national house builder of a site with planning permission for over 230 dwellings in Cornwall with arrangements for the site assembly to be secured by agreements with the adjoining landowners and addressing complex issues relating to mineral rights.