Cripps Harries Hall

What we do

We help you through the process of buying and developing land for housing, both private and affordable.  Our involvement extends from the point you identify a site to completion of plot sales.

We deal with purchases and sales of land and buildings, options and conditional contracts.  We identify legal constraints that could prevent development and find solutions to overcome them. Rights of light, restrictive covenants, party walls, rights of way and services, town and village greens - these are the types of issue we address.  We handle the planning, highways and infrastructure agreements required for development.

We help negotiate agreements to share in future revenues, producing joint venture and other risk sharing arrangements.

Our team includes lawyers with a background of working in-house for housebuilders and developers, others with specialist knowledge of the planning system and some who major in construction.

Our experience of the housebuilding sector gives us a true insight to the challenges and issues faced by those who build and develop the homes of the future.

Our clients

Our clients include land promoters, developers, housebuilders, housing associations and landowners.

Why Cripps Harries Hall?

We have true sector expertise and experience. We bring together all the legal disciplines needed to support you from project inception to completion.  We have an extensive network of contacts in the industry and are members of the Home Builders Federation.

Next steps

For further information please contact Bill Mackie or Glenn Miller. 

• Acting for a plc housebuilder on the acquisition of a residential development site of over 300 units in the northern home counties for a consideration in excess of £30 million. The transaction was complex, involving a number of land interests and major infrastructure issues and was subject to very tight deadlines
• Acting for a developer in connection with the acquisition (and simultaneous disposal of part) of a residential development site in Hertfordshire in joint venture with a plc developer (consideration in excess of £30 million)
• Advising a major property and construction group on the creation of a joint venture with a plc housebuilder and the acquisition by the joint venture of residential development land for a consideration in excess of £50 million
• Acting for a developer and housebuilder in joint venture to acquire unconditionally from a utility company a potential urban development site. The transaction was completed in a short timeframe and involved complicated overage arrangements because at the time of acquisition the position and nature of the future development was not known with any certainty
• Acting for a developer involved in one of the largest regeneration/development projects London has seen. Our involvement is with the disposal of market units in the residential element in the scheme. We have advised on the structure of the legal documentation and its integration with the remainder of the scheme and developed a bespoke and ground breaking 'leasebook' product for the apartment sales