Tom Johnson
Partner
Tom advises developers, investors, land owners and major corporate occupiers on the delivery of complex and high value real estate projects, with a focus on major commercial and residential development schemes. Tom leads our UK residential development practice and is head of our market-leading real estate team in the Midlands
Tom's experience
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Advised English Cities Fund, an urban regeneration partnership on the development and funding of the first phase (330 homes) of the 1,000 home Smithgate development in Wolverhampton, with public and private sector funding.
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
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Advised Barratt, a residential developer on the property aspects of the groundbreaking MADE Partnership, alongside Homes England and The Lloyds Banking Group, which will enable the delivery of large scale strategic residential development sites.
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
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Advised Muse Places, an urban regeneration developer on the negotiation of its long-term master development agreement with the consortium of public and private sector landowners at Arden Cross, which will be the site of the new HS2 Interchange Station, linking to Birmingham Airport and a £3.2bn major new mixed use commercial and residential destination, including thousands of new homes.
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
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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.
- £2bn
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
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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.
- United Kingdom
- Government and public sector
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Advised The Silvertown Partnership on the £3.5bn Silvertown Quays scheme in London Dockland, a 6,000 home new community, including negotiating the agreements with The Guinness Partnership to deliver the first phase of 720 affordable homes across several development plots, including associated advice on estate set up, utilities and construction matters.
- £190m
- Real Estate
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Advised Urban&Civic, a property developer on the negotiation of its long-term master developer agreement with Hertfordshire County Council in respect of the promotion and delivery of the £500m Growing Baldock new settlement, which will provide for the delivery of over 3,000 new homes.
- £250m
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
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Advising London & Continental Railways on the development and letting of the Sidings, a 40 unit retail, restaurant and leisure destination scheme within the Waterloo International Rail terminal in London.
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
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Advised on the development of the Brentford Riverside project, including advice on site assembly (including CPO) and acquisition of local authority land interests/use of section 203 powers.
- United Kingdom
- Infrastructure
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Advising HBD in relation to Phoenix 10, Walsall the largest logistics scheme in the West Midlands.
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
Credentials
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2026Thomson Reuters Stand Out Lawyer
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2003Joined Pinsent Masons
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1996Qualified - England and Wales
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1993Jurisprudence Oxford University - BA
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