The Role
This is an exciting time to join our market leading Residential Development Unit as the team continues to win repeat and new work from its impressive client base of recognised national and regional housebuilders. This brand-new role is of strategical importance to Gateley and will offer you the opportunity to develop valuable technical and commercial skillsets.
Working with our highly prized housebuilder clients, your responsibilities will include:
- Working on infrastructure agreements for matters that arise both before and during site development.
- Putting in place the legal arrangements and agreements to allow the developers to lay roads and utility services which serve developments.
- Ensure that statutory processes do not delay plot sales.
- Working with multiple development stakeholders to negotiate agreements to allow work to progress in accordance with the developer’s schedule.
- Manage client relationships and keep them regularly updated on progress.
This role sits directly between our land acquisition and plot teams. You will be in the perfect position to ensure that the two teams’ work transitions smoothly and pick up on any potential technical and infrastructure related issues prior to them becoming an issue at the plot sale stage. This will put you in the best place to build great relationships with our clients and to be a part in retaining Gateley’s position as the go to for all residential development matters.
The Team
We are the leading residential development and urban regeneration legal team in the country acting for 18 of the top 20 UK housebuilders, institutional landowners such as Oxford University and other large-scale sector participants.
We advise over the complete life cycle of new build housing from initial heads of terms, acquiring the land, obtaining planning permission, building out the scheme and the sale of the new homes. Schemes range from local developments of 50 new homes up to 20,000 unit green field urban extensions and multi-billion pound urban regeneration schemes in central London. We also advise our PLC clients at Group level on national issues such as cladding remediation post-Grenfell and Competition and Markets Authority investigations.
The team, is based in 8 of our offices across England, operates within Gateley Plc’s Property Platform. This Platform comprises over 700 lawyers, surveyors, engineers, architects, accountants and support staff who provide a unique cross-disciplinary service delivery to out wider property client base.
Part of the team’s is the sale of the new homes once built. These sales, which total approximately 15,000 plots and £3 billion in revenue each year, are handled by the Plot Sales team out of three regional hubs using highly developed IT processes and automation.
The Person
The successful candidate for this role will be an experienced residential development lawyer with experience in working on plot sales and site set up matters. You will be a great collaborator, working internally with our Land, Plot, Planning and Surveying teams, as well as externally with local authorities and architects to ensure that the development is a success.
If you are looking for a new challenge, want to be part of a new service within the UK’s market leading residential development team and have the technical knowledge which has been listed above then we want to hear from you.