Development and Regeneration

Our development practice handles complex residential, commercial and mixed-use development sites, from acquisition through to disposals of completed units.

We advise upon development agreements, joint ventures, options, overages, leases, planning agreements, promotion agreements, purchase contracts, conditional contracts and all other agreements which may be required in order to develop the site for disposal.

Our development team of property lawyers works extensively with other specialists within or outside the firm in related practice areas such as construction, planning and environmental, disputes, banking, corporate and tax.

In particular we advise on the following areas:

  • Acquisition and financing of development sites;

  • Overage options, clawback arrangements and promotion agreements;

  • Section 106 Agreements and other planning instruments; and

  • Development plot sales or advice on structuring should the developer wish to hold the development in the build to rent sector or otherwise.

Testimonials and recent experience

  • Advising on the development of a new football stadium for Tottenham Hotspur and on the associated urban regeneration scheme.

  • Advising on a residential scheme for the sale of a new development in central London valued in the region of £16 million comprising 2 town houses, 4 apartments and a commercial unit.

  • Acting for the developer on the purchase of bare land and the subsequent pre-letting of a 300 room hotel development in East London, the pre-let being a 25 year lease, subject to planning and development of the hotel by the developer to the operator’s required specifications. The development included a Section 106 Agreement and Asset Protection Agreement with Transport for London.

  • Acting on the proposed development of a 117 landmark hotel in South West London, including the acquisition, pre-let and construction.

  • Advising a developer on the acquisition and development of a Business Park site on a former industrial site in Kent, including the construction, electrification and subsequent disposal of 59 units.

  • Advising a developer client on the site assembly of a residential scheme in Surrey, including the amalgamation of a number of parcels of land from different ownerships, planning and construction of 48 residential apartments.