Development
Our Real Estate team supports clients through every stage of the development process. We have significant expertise acting for clients on flagship developments and high value projects in the retail, hotel and leisure, industrial, office and mixed-use sectors.
We also offer cross-firm expertise in incorporating special purpose development vehicles, negotiating joint venture agreements, development management agreements, side by side arrangements, participation contracts and promotion agreements.
We offer advice on:
- Site acquisition
- Obtaining vacant possession
- Obtaining planning permission
- Negotiating planning agreements
- Varying restrictive covenants
- Stopping up highways
- Releasing rights of light
- Negotiating development rights
- Drafting construction contracts
- Appointing professionals
- Documenting the construction finance
- Letting the development
- Disposals
Examples of our work:
Hamlins has a long history of Real Estate Development with previous flagship developments including
- Embankment Place, Chesham House, Regent Arcade House and 264-267 Tottenham Court Road
- the development of hotels at Tower Hill and the Iron Mountain Repository
- development management agreements for Paternoster Square London EC4, Bevis Marks London EC3, The Strand London WC2, Riverbank House London EC4, and King William Street London EC4.
Our Work
Daedalus Waterfront
We are acting for Patron Daedalus Limited on the acquisition and regeneration of a 42-acre waterfront site at Daedalus, Lee-on-the-Solent in a joint venture between MurrayTwohig Development, Orwell Real Estate...
St Dunstan’s, Ovingdean
We acted for James Taylor Homes on the purchase of the landmark former Blind Veterans UK centre, known as St Dunstan’s, in Ovingdean, East Sussex. The 1930-built listed building overlooking...