I really enjoy working with Rachel. She explains things so well and is always happy to help. I understand the relevant legal issues so much better after working with her. She knows when to get involved and communicates effectively
A local authority client.
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Sector experience:
Rachel specialises in Real Estate, Planning and Highway Law and has extensive experience of advising clients on major regeneration projects.
Rachel acts for a wide range of clients including local authorities, other public sector clients (including government bodies), landowners, developers and funders. She seamlessly integrates with clients and wider project teams on large scale projects focusing on the outcomes the client wishes to achieve. She sees her role as a facilitator providing practical yet innovative solutions to complex issues.
Her clients value her pragmatic and commercial approach to matters and her drive to simply ‘get things done’.
Rachel’s practice focuses on regeneration schemes involving advising on land assembly, acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant issues, compulsory purchase, promotion agreements and planning and highway law. She advises landowners, developers and local planning authorities on all town and country planning issues, including advising on planning applications, environmental impact assessments, community infrastructure levy and planning enforcement.
She has acted on a number of high profile developments across the UK including urban regeneration schemes, infrastructure schemes, retail, leisure and residential development schemes.
Memberships
Rachel is a member of the Compulsory Purchase AssociationCase highlights
- Acting on behalf of a housing company that is wholly controlled by an East London local authority with the intention that the housing company deliver a number of residential units across a number of disused sites across the borough. Advice includes initial title due diligence, advice on appropriation and overriding rights under section 203 Housing and Planning Act 2016, compensation, and initial advice on the timing of the land transfer from the Council to the company.
- Acting for the Royal Borough of Greenwich, advising on the use of compulsory purchase powers to secure the regeneration of the Woolwich Estates which is a significant and important regeneration scheme delivering much needed housing in the borough.
- Acting for a local authority landlord in connection with a series of connected property transactions including planning and promotion agreements, conditional sale agreements and a deed of variation to an existing lease.
- Advising on numerous planning applications, environmental impact assessments, section 106, section 278 and section 38 agreements for local planning authorities, developers and funders.
