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Complicated infrastructure agreement

We acted for a large affordable housing provider in connection with the acquisition of a development site comprising a disused sports ground and a listed historic train building. This involved entering in to a complicated infrastructure agreement with English Partnerships, together with a number of operational licences with Network Rail and the British Waterways Board to enable the redevelopment of the site to take place in close proximity to the national rail network and a working canal that adjoined the site.

In addition, the sale agreement incorporated a number of restrictions, overage provisions and an option for our client to purchase an adjoining area of land from the vendor. We were required to secure necessary rights of way and access both to enable the intended development to take place, and also to take into account the possibility of further development or intensification of use in the future.

Once we had acquired the site and ensured that it would be handed across with vacant possession, we continued to advise the client in connection with ongoing building contracts. These included a site remediation contract, and construction contracts for both newbuild and extensive refurbishment works to be carried out to the existing buildings, including all associated consultant appointments and security documentation.

We are in the process of finalising the necessary detailed planning permission to enable our client’s development to proceed, and carrying out the negotiations with the local authority regarding the relevant planning conditions and Section 106 agreement.

Once completed this development will be comprised of some 300 residential units, of which 90 will be for social housing, together with complementary retail properties and a substantial area of public open space.

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