Cripps Harries Hall

What we do

We engage with our clients in the whole development process:

• Strategic land buying and options
• Site assembly
• Compulsory purchase
• The planning process
• Highways and infrastructure
• Devising efficient development vehicles, joint ventures and collaboration
• Development and funding agreements
• Overage
• Construction and engineering contracts
• Remediation of contaminated land and other environmental issues
• Affordable and key worker housing
• Regulatory compliance
• Leasing, plot sales and other exit arrangements

We have particular experience of the regeneration process.

Our clients

Our clients include commercial and residential developers, landowners, financiers, local authorities, government agencies and housing associations.

Why Cripps Harries Hall?

We have a distinctive approach, helped by the fact that many of us were previously in the development industry. We work closely with you and your project team to understand your priorities and objectives. We take an active role, driving the project forward in a pragmatic way. We seek a balance between tried and tested techniques (to provide best value) and creative thinking, recognising that no two projects are the same.

Next steps

For further information please contact Jason Towell.

• Acting for a major London commercial property developer in its first foray into residential development. The scheme involved a complex site assembly, the surrender of occupational leases, the creation of a joint venture and bank and secondary lending. We also handled the letting of the main construction contract and associated construction documentation, the pre sale of an apartment block to a housing association and the sale of the remaining units
• Acting for a local authority on the sale of a leisure centre site for future mixed use development (including overage arrangements) and in relation to the relocation and reprovision of the leisure centre. The base consideration was in excess of £30 million
• Acting for a commercial property client in relation to a joint venture with a major house builder which involved the acquisition of 215 units of housing stock. The transaction involved the formation of a limited liability partnership, the negotiation of complex financing documentation and a major due diligence exercise
• Acting for a commercial business in the redevelopment of its premises to create a town centre retail park, including the construction and disposal of the retail units
• Acting for a developer collaboration in connection with the acquisition and simultaneous part sub-sale of a prospective development site to facilitate a park and ride facility, motorway junction extension works, residential, care home and out of town retail and office development. Transaction involved landowner and inter-collaboration overage, profit equalisation and profit share, promotion and development obligations and collateral land security