House Builders

Clarke Willmott are regarded as leading legal advisers to the residential development sector. Our full service residential development team advises many of the largest developers as well as strategic land companies, smaller traditional builders and niche start-up ventures. Major clients include: Barratt Homes, Persimmon Homes, Bellway Homes, Taylor Wimpey, Crest Nicholson, Galliford Try and Countryside.

Our development lawyers work closely with our dedicated planning, construction and dispute resolution teams to offer an integrated legal service that helps provide solutions that contribute to your success. The team have extensive experience in advising on all matters that arise throughout the life time of residential and mixed-used developments, including sustainability, regeneration, environmental and planning issues, covenants, rights to light etc. Commercially and legally astute, we work with you to help overcome the problems presented by difficult sites.

Our specialist plot sales team ensure that complex sites are accurately and efficiently set up while using electronic case management systems to deliver effective project management of the legal aspects of the plot sales process.

Areas of advice include:

• The drafting and negotiation of complex conditional purchase agreements, options, collaboration agreements and joint ventures;
• The negotiation of planning permissions and planning agreements;
• Settling consultant's appointments and the negotiation of construction contracts particularly in the context of mixed use developments;
• The efficient tax structuring of deals with particular reference to SDLT and VAT planning;
• Leading you through the tangle of environmental regulation as well as dealing with environmental disputes and prosecutions;
• Using our dispute resolution skills to help maximise and protect the value of your developments

Contact: Greg Lovett, Head of House Builders