Cripps Harries Hall

Clair Grant

Associate (Chartered Legal Executive)

Clair Grant heads up the plot sales team. She has extensive experience of acting for developers, including major plc housebuilders and housing associations, setting up plot sales documentation for a broad range of schemes including mixed use. She also deals with infrastructure agreements and has drafted terms for a number of incentive schemes.

Expertise

  • Development
  • Leases
  • Property management agreements
  • Property sales and purchases

Memberships

  • ILEX

  • Advising developers on substantial residential schemes (1,000+ units) with complex multi-layered management arrangements
  • Providing tailored training sessions for sales teams on specific aspects of the plot sales process
  • Acting for Wates, working in partnership with Whitefriars Group, for the regeneration of a large existing estate to deliver a mix of market housing and new social units and disposing of the private plots
  • Acting for both developers and RSLs on the sale/purchase of newbuild affordable housing units including Development Agreements
  • Advising on the negotiation of a complex development agreement for the regeneration of a run down area in the West Midlands. The agreement had to be completed in a rush before midnight on budget day to avoid changes to taxation announced in the budget that day. The redevelopment has been undertaken in four phases and we have advised throughout
Legal updates view all
+ Development law - NewBuy - burden to the tax payer or market saviour? April 2012
Most developers will be aware of the NewBuy scheme to a greater or lesser extent. Much of the national press has reported little benefit in the scheme and has focused instead on the potential cost to the taxpayer. So what are the benefits and risks of the scheme?
10/04/2012
+ Retirement living update - SUDS - more of a drama than a soap opera? & age restrictions in planning for retirement housing - February 2011
The government has been becoming increasingly concerned with the management of surface water, including water quality and its impact on the local environment, together with the risk of flooding to homes and businesses as a result of heavy rainfall. To address these issues, as well as the question of who will ensure drainage systems are properly maintained in the future, the Flood and Water Management Act received royal assent on 8th April 2010.
 01/02/2011

Contact details

T:
+44 (0)1892 506 123
F:
+44 (0)1892 598 323
E:
clair.grant@crippslaw.com

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