For more than thirty years, our Strategic Land and Options Team has been building its widely recognised reputation by helping landowners to profit from the future development value of their land.

Typically, this has involved highly complex agreements between landowners and prospective developers. The landowner continues to enjoy the use of the land, whilst enabling the developer to use their skill to promote that land for development, confident that both parties will benefit from the developer's success.

Very few law firms specialise in this area of advice and that accounts for the fact that instructions to our team come from specialists, surveyors, planners and accountants who work together with us to achieve results for the landowner and the developer.

Other solicitors recognise our expertise and refer clients for this type of work. National organisations like the CLA and NFU refer their members to us.

We have run workshops and seminars for the benefit of surveyors and other professionals to enable them to better understand some of the many complexities of this area of the law and thereby appreciate how their own advice should be tailored.

Our work has ranged from assisting single landowners to profit from the potential of their land, advising groups of landowners seeking to work together to achieve greater profits, acting for single developers or consortia of developers planning to develop land in the future, and for those owning land, helping with planning agreements and infrastructure arrangements to ensure successful development.

Services

• Conditional contracts
• Consortium agreements
• Co-ordination of proposals for landowners and developers
• Development agreements
• Infrastructure agreements
• Joint venture agreements
• Option agreements
• Planning agreements
• Pre-emption agreements
• Uplift agreements