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Our holistic approach to Garden Communities means we look at the full lifecycle to deliver new settlements and urban extensions with the highest development and place making standards
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The experience of the Pinsent Masons team across delivering numerous UK garden communities projects enables us to share best practice and lessons learnt with our public and private sector clients for the full lifecycle of these projects. We have developed a robust, tried and tested methodology which takes into account the many interlinked elements that are involved in creating successful and sustainable places enabling future generations to thrive.
Our advisers act on domestic and international projects of all shapes and sizes, working with many of the leading names across this diverse sector. Browse our experience below, or use the filters to look-up recent work in particular geographies and legal disciplines.
Maidstone Borough Council
Advised Maidstone Borough Council on its plans to bring forward the Heathlands Garden Village in the east of the borough in alignment with Garden Community principles. The Council wishes to promote much-needed new housing with an appropriate mix of affordable homes, on a site which is currently used mainly as farmland.
Advised Cornwall Council on Langarth Garden Village including the masterplanning, planning, funding and delivery of a 3,500 home garden village with new schools, medical facilities, shops, hotels, care homes, pubs, restaurants, public open space, park and ride and sports facilities. including being situated adjacent to the new Stadium for Cornwall.
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and Hampshire County Council
Acted for Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and Hampshire County Council on the promotion of the strategic housing allocation and subsequent planning application for Manydown. The development will include approximately 3,500 homes, a country park, schools, retail and community facilities.
Advised Cumbria County Council (prior to local government reorganisation) on the delivery of the £100m+ Carlisle Southern Link Road to provide vital infrastructure and network capacity to enable the successful and accelerated delivery of 10,000 new homes in St Cuthbert's Garden Village.
Advised the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation on comprehensive planning application support and on the land assembly and CPO strategy to bring forward a strategic site allocation in the Swanscombe Peninsula, South-East, England.
Advising FCC Environment on the heat off-take arrangements for a new district heating network. The 300k/tpa CHP Energy from Waste Facility in Edinburgh will supply steam/ hot water as the primary source of heat which will service circa 2,500 new residential units to be developed in Shawfair.
Advised Chalkdene Developments LLP, a 50:50 partnership between Hertfordshire County Council's property company Herts Living Limited and Morgan Sindall, on a £2 billion development scheme in Hertfordshire. This included acquisition of a site in Welwyn Garden City which had planning permission for 21 new homes.
Advising Durham County Council on the development of the Seaham Garden Village heat network which will supply low-carbon heat from former coalmines to the 1,500 new homes.
Advising Folkestone and Hythe Council on site assembly of the proposed new 12,000 home Otterpool Park Garden Community, including strategic options and landowner collaboration agreements.
Advised a well-known registered provider on its negotiations with a major mixed-use developer to agree the terms of a long term collaboration and promotion agreement relating to their significant respective neighbouring land holdings to develop a new community in the Midlands applying garden village principles.
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Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised Revera Energy (Revera), a global independent energy platform backed by global investment firm Carlyle, on all construction and optimisation aspects of the 400MW / 800MWh Hunterston BESS Project.
Pinsent Masons has advised Avanton on its partnership with Hyde in relation to 64 social rented homes at THE BeCa, Old Kent Road.
Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons advised Erste Group Bank and Erste Bank Polska on an investment loan granted to Eastnine, a company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
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