real estate

Advising Charnwood Borough Council on its ‘Eastern Gateway’ regeneration of Loughborough town centre involving the redevelopment of an 11 acre site as 120 new homes together with major improvements to the town’s train station, a new link road and other transport infrastructure. We advised from the very early stages, including in relation to procurement issues, an initial memorandum of understanding between the key parties and the subsequent heads of terms. A member of our team sat alongside the Council on its project steering group. We dealt with the site acquisition and subsequent development agreements with a housing association, the highway authority and two separate rail companies.

Advising Derby City Council on the development of Infinity Park, Derby - a new advanced manufacturing focussed innovation and technology orientated business park on a 200 acre site and anticipated to generate 1.5m square feet of new buildings. Our wide ranging involvement covered site assembly, development agreements for major infrastructure delivery and complex funding arrangements, together with advice on construction, planning, state aid, procurement, tax and banking issues.

Helping to secure a multi-million pound facility to assist in the construction of Formula E’s global headquarters and team testing facilities within at Donington Park Racing Circuit. Part of the loan facility was obtained from the Leicester and Leicestershire Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LLEP) Growing Places Fund. We dealt with the completion of the leases with Formula E Operations of the six newly constructed buildings at Donington and the completion of underleases with the various racing teams - including Virgin and Team China, to name but a few.

Advising Mortar Developments on its fourteen storey “Global Point” mixed-use development in Nottingham city centre, providing 449 high-spec student bed spaces together with retail/A3/office space and basement car parking facilities. We dealt with the variation/release of a number of third party interests, a rights of light claim, law firms across several foreign jurisdictions, and the relocation of existing leases affecting the site.

Advising Waterloo Housing Group on a scheme in Mablethorpe; the project involves the development of 120 new affordable homes, open market housing, a new supermarket, new distributor road and ancillary infrastructure. The scheme was recently expanded to include an additional phase. Our work included a complex series of agreements with various other parties - including private developer Lindum Homes and East Lindsey District Council - covering property, development, planning and tax issues.