London
Project:
Acting for the promoter Imperial Land and Cirrus Land in taking an option over c 100 acres of land in the Thames Valley with a view to it becoming developed for uses associated with the film industry.
Surrey
Project:
Acting for London Strategic Land and VolkerWessels Limited on the purchase of 535 acres of strategic land near Redhill Surrey with a view to securing planning for residential led mixed use development.
Willis Dawson Holdings Limited
Project:
Land assembly and planning promotion of a new scheme in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.
The development encompasses over 1,200 dwellings, a care home, neighbourhood and local centres containing shops, schools, doctors’ surgery and leisure and other uses; there are also included approximately 12 hectares of employment uses and extensive open spaces, including sports facilities and allotments and a new public transport network.
Project:
We advised on the sale of one of the largest strategic land holdings to change hands in the UK in recent years — the site of what will be Universal's first theme park in Europe.
The transaction was structured as a corporate sale to a Universal entity, and so required real estate and corporate expertise to run in parallel across a single, tightly co-ordinated process.
Our client had assembled the site over more than six years through a series of conditional purchases, option agreements and overage arrangements, together with the acquisition of mines and minerals rights. Each of these had to be reviewed, and where necessary released, assigned or preserved, to deliver the clean title the buyer required.