Cripps Harries Hall

What we do

We offer a complete service to your industry:

• Planning and infrastructure - planning strategy, representations, applications and planning and infrastructure agreements
• Strategic land and site assembly - long-term site acquisition and promotion through option agreements, conditional contracts, development agreements and promotion agreements
• Development vehicles and management structures - setting up vehicles for dealing with larger sites such as joint ventures, consortium agreements and collaboration agreements. Devising and establishing robust management structures to secure long-term value
• Construction - preparing construction documents and assisting with construction issues
• Conveyancing - site purchase, understanding and anticipating what will be required through the development process
• Affordable Housing - we act for a number of registered social landlords, so understand their requirements
• Plot sales - setting up sites for sales of plots and undertaking the full plot sale process

Our clients

Our clients are household names in the housebuilding industry.

Why Cripps Harries Hall?

Many of our specialist lawyers come from the housebuilding and construction industries. They speak your language. They understand your problems from the inside. They also have the support of our integrated property and commercial practice, including dispute resolution should that be needed. We offer all the legal support you may need. We are also active in the Home Builders Federation.

Next steps

For further information please contact Bill Mackie.

• 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
• 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
• Handling the sale to a plc housebuilder of residential development land in Oxfordshire for a consideration in excess of £12 million
• Acting for a developer who acquired land that was subject to an option in favour of a housebuilder. The option was allowed to lapse and our client successfully obtained planning consent for a residential development and sold the site to a joint venture in which it retains a stake