Forty years’ experience has given Thrings’ Strategic Land Team its widely recognised reputation in helping landowners to profit from the future development value of their land.

Typically, this involves highly complex agreements and innovative arrangements between landowners and prospective developers, promoters or investors. The landowner continues to enjoy the use of the land, whilst enabling the developer or promoter to use their skill to promote that land for development, confident that all parties will benefit from the developer's or promoter’s success.

Very few law firms specialise in this area and that accounts for the fact that instructions to our team come from specialists, surveyors, planners and accountants who work together with us to achieve results for the landowner and developer, promoter, or investor.

Other solicitors recognise our expertise and refer clients for this type of work. National organisations like the CLA and NFU refer their members to us.

We have run workshops and seminars for the benefit of surveyors and other professionals to enable them to better understand some of the many complexities of this area of the law and thereby appreciate how their own advice should be tailored.

Our work in this specialist area includes:

• assisting single landowners to profit from the potential of their land
• advising groups of landowners seeking to work together to achieve greater profits
• acting for single developers or consortia of developers planning to develop land in the future
• helping promoters and investors to secure appropriate rewards for their expertise or investment and for those owning land
• helping with planning agreements and infrastructure arrangements to ensure successful development.

In addition, once parties are tied in to an agreement, our Property Dispute Resolution Team can provide strategic advice in respect of the resolution of any disputes arising under that agreement. The team have an enviable track record in resolving such disputes through the provision of clear and practical advice which focuses on our client’s commercial needs.

We advise on:

• Conditional contracts
• Consortium agreements
• Co-ordination of proposals for landowners and developers
• Development agreements
• Infrastructure agreements
• Joint venture agreements
• Land promotion agreements
• Option agreements
• Planning agreements
• Pre-emption agreements
• Uplift agreements