Each year, our experts advise clients on numerous schemes delivering thousands of new homes, commercial and employment uses, together with the associated provision of infrastructure, community uses and public realm improvement.
Whether you’re working on a discrete single phase development, or a large scale, multi-landowner mixed use scheme, having a multi-disciplinary team of lawyers to help you navigate challenges and provide practical solutions is a crucial part of ensuring your strategic land project crosses the line successfully.
Your team
Your strategic land team
Our leading national Strategic Land team acts for land promoters, developers, landowners, housebuilders, funders, investors and public authorities, covering everything from Promotion and Option Agreements to conditional Sale Agreements and Collaboration Agreements. This extensive experience includes developing greenfield, brownfield and greyfield sites across the residential, commercial and industrial sectors, on strategic land projects of all sizes.
With a long history of supporting clients in this area, our team have essential hands-on experience supporting projects as they mature from initial site investigation and acquisition, through the planning system, and on to development and disposal to a variety of end users.
As our client, you’ll benefit from access to the best of our expertise, including our specialist real estate, planning, tax, construction, finance and commercial lawyers.
Clients come to us for help with initial site acquisitions; advice on structuring and partnering arrangements (including joint ventures, collaboration, pooling and trusts); for help navigating the planning process; advice relating to subsidy control and procurement issues, grant funding and development financing; and to deliver disposals through a variety of different arrangements.
You can rely on our team of specialists to ensure that problems can be proactively avoided and overcome by maintaining a clear view across all disciplines, and we understand that particularly with multi-phase developments, planning and other commercial drivers will dictate the approach to development and disposal.
In need of a strategic land lawyer? Look no further.
At Womble Bond Dickinson we have an exceptional team of talented lawyers and business professionals who can offer guidance and find the solutions right for your business. We have both broad and niche expertise across all our UK and US offices.
Advised a national land promoter client on a potential new settlement in North Yorkshire, comprising 2,700 new homes with ancillary community uses and local employment opportunities
Acted for a developer client in relation to a site which was shortlisted as the potential location for the world's first nuclear fusion reactor as part of the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production programme
Acting for a joint venture between two local authorities in respect of the creation of a new Garden Village (circa 1,500 new dwellings, new school, complex infrastructure, railway station etc) and new £500m retail/commercial/leisure town centre at Brookfield Hertfordshire
Advising on a Hybrid Promotion and Option Agreement for a 224 hectare logistics scheme at a motorway interchange in Northamptonshire. The development partner will promote and drawdown the scheme in phases
Advising a government agency on the acquisition, site assembly and promotion of a scheme for 1700 new homes in Clacton, Essex.
Testimonials
"Paul Hunter was absolutely first class on a complicated property transaction. He demonstrated great attention to detail as well as wise commercial pragmatism."
Legal 500, 2025
"The Womble Bond Dickinson team went above and beyond to ensure the smooth progress of the land sale. They mobilised a diverse and multifaceted team to handle significant matters when needed, and Olivia Graham dedicated herself to ensuring the deal concluded under tight time pressure."
Client feedback, 2024
"Dave Cole is a very experienced and competent solicitor, with tremendous tenacity and attention to detail. His drive and will to succeed, including against tight deadlines and with challenging issues, is exceptional."
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