Cripps Harries Hall

What we do

We offer the full range of property and planning services:

• Buying sites and built units  
• Development and funding agreements
• Construction documents
• Infrastructure and planning agreements
• Transactions with other registered providers.

A specialist team deals with shared ownership and shared equity sales, right to buy and right to acquire disposals, rent to buy and mortgage rescue schemes.

We can also meet your requirements for general business advice - on setting up a business, commercial contracts, employment, and regulatory issues.

Our clients

Our clients are registered providers and housebuilders with affordable housing divisions.

Why Cripps Harries Hall?

Our affordable housing team brings together experts who have a wealth of experience and specialist knowledge to meet the requirements of, and demands facing, the affordable housing sector. We understand the regime within which you operate and that clear, concise advice and value for money are key to the delivery of your development programmes and housing services.

We can provide flexible and fixed fee arrangements tailored to your particular needs.

Next steps

For further information please contact Andrew Harbourne in the first instance, or in his absence Sarah Ferguson.

• Acting for a housing association in conjunction with a City firm in connection with a £150 million facility including involvement in negotiating the loan documentation and dealing with certificates of title for over 300 properties (including individual units and new build developments)
• Acting for a housing association on a joint venture with a top 10 national housebuilder to acquire a site in Kent - we dealt with all aspects of the acquisition including setting up the joint venture and complex planning and stamp duty land tax advice
• Advising a major development client in relation to a number of large urban regeneration projects in partnership with housing associations including dealing with a £60 million regeneration project in the West Midlands and a number of projects in the South East
• Advising a major housing association on a long-term, large-scale development project involving a community interest company in relation to the development of land by a house builder