What can I do for you?
I specialise in real estate development projects, large and small: from hundreds (or thousands) of houses to major new hospital facilities, new school premises and earthworks for new sea walls. My work includes advising on a variety of landowner collaboration and strategic option agreements for the promotion of future development land. I also advise on the sale and purchase of land and buildings and management of property portfolios.
Supporting my clients’ objectives
I take a personal interest in schemes that I work on, visiting sites before, during and after construction. Practical difficulties associated with a development are better understood when I go out and get muddy boots! A project comes to life when the plans on my desk are translated to the reality of new buildings taking the place of old ones, or derelict land being brought back to life.
It has been a great professional pleasure to have advised on the urban extension of Peterborough at Hampton, working closely with the landowners since the late 1980s to the present day as thousands of new homes and new community facilities are built surrounded by a country park and a nature reserve.
What do others say?
Development projects are usually complex and often long running, involving clients and other professionals over sustained periods. We build on our clients’ confidence and trust in us and it is good to hear comments like: “Christine maintains a keen interest in developments in our area and proactively offers support. She actively seeks feedback and works hard to ensure that we are happy!”
Chambers UK has clients reporting that I am valued for my "understanding of client needs".
What else should you know?
I’m the practice leader for our firm’s specialists in urban regeneration and new sustainable communities work. Our wider team encompasses real estate lawyers working with experts in planning law, construction law, corporate law and commercial law to deliver a whole range of economic and physical regeneration projects and redevelopment schemes across the country, for clients in public and private sectors alike.