Social housing

Advising a local authority on its regeneration of a run-down 1960s tower block estate to create circa 300 new homes and a new community centre. Our advice spanned the procurement, regeneration and housing aspects of the project.

Advising a London RP on its long-standing, and complex partnering agreement with the local London Borough to create an innovative, modern structure capturing the ‘vision’ of what the parties are seeking to achieve but at the same time ensuring it is workable, fundable and sufficiently flexible to cater for the surprises that are inevitable in a long term partnership.

Advising a major RP in relation to the charging of over £100m worth of properties under a security trust arrangement. Our extensive knowledge and experience in this area and our sensitivity to the bespoke requirements of funders when acting for RPs when acquiring land and negotiating development agreements means we are able to highlight and pre-empt many of the issues that affect charging and value at the very beginning of the life of a development.

Acting for Waterloo Housing Group on a scheme in Mablethorpe involving the development of 120 new affordable homes, open market housing, a new supermarket, new distributor road and ancillary infrastructure. Our work included a complex series of agreements with various other parties covering property, development, planning and tax issues.