Strategic Land and Development
Martin Smith
Martin is Head of Strategic Land at Maples Teesdale with extensive experience in strategic land projects including collaboration, option, promotion and development agreements acting for landowners, promoters, and developers, residential, mixed use, and industrial/distribution development projects as well as commercial real estate acquisition, letting, management and disposals.
John Bosworth
John is Head of Planning at Maples Teesdale and has extensive experience working in both the private and public sectors. He advises on local authorities, statutory undertakers, developers, investors, regeneration agencies and housing associations on a wide range of legal issues associated with development as well as regeneration, infrastructure and strategic land projects. In particular he has advised on waste proposals, port development and in connection with the expansion of London Ashford Airport. John advises on all aspects of town and country planning, judicial review, highways and drainage and compulsory purchase and compensation.
Helen Stewart
Helen is a Partner in the Strategic Land team at Maples Teesdale with extensive experience in acting for house builders, land promoters and land owners in their development and strategic land projects. Helen has acted on freehold acquisitions/disposals, drafting and negotiating complex documents such as build leases, development management agreements, promotion agreements (including hybrid option agreements), collaboration agreements, conditional sale contracts, overage and option agreements. She has advised on complex residential site set up work (which includes acting for housing associations in shared ownership disposals) and acted for landowners and developers on the assembly, promotion planning, development and sale of mixed use and employment schemes.
Stephanie Willis
Stephanie is a Senior Associate in Maples Teesdale's commercial real estate team. Stephanie has experience across the sector including landlord and tenant work, acquisitions and disposals and property management and is a member of the Strategic Land & Development team.
Anastasia Klein
As well as being an experienced partner in our commercial real estate team, Anastasia is Head of ESG and co-Head of EDI at Maples Teesdale. Ana has extensive experience of capital transactions and asset management, including acquisitions, disposals, financing and portfolio deals, developments and pre-lets. Her work spans a range of sectors, including industrial and logistics, film and media, retail and offices. She led the team dealing with the property aspects of a REIT conversion for one of the UK’s largest property trusts involving assets valued in excess of £2.8bn and is part of the team that advises the US Government on its London embassy premises. As a noted expert on ESG and green lease provisions, Ana is recognised as a leading individual in the Legal 500 Green Guide and has spoken about green leases, ESG and sustainability at events hosted by (amongst others) BPF, RICS, JLL and Bisnow as well as having articles published by RICS, Estates Gazette, BE News and CoStar and being quoted in Property Week and the national press. She is also a member of the BPF's Green Lease Working Group , sits on the BENews’ ESG Editorial Advisory Board and is an active supporter of the Net Carbon Zero Standard project. Of particular note, Ana has recently been involved in the creation of a ground-breaking green lease for an extremely innovative award winning client with sustainability at its core, as well as taking the lead on green lease drafting in a panel of law firms acting for FTSE 100 listed global investment manager with assets under management valued in excess of c£500bn. Ana is passionate about driving change and encouraging diversity in the legal profession and the commercial real estate industry. In her EDI role she actively promotes and supports EDI both internally and externally; she is a founding member of the Allbright Club in London, a committee member of RE:Women and is proud to have been included in Bisnow’s recent list of “Women Changing the Face of UK Real Estate – Power Women”.
Chloe Marshall
Chloe is an Associate in our commercial real estate team at Maples Teesdale. She has experience within the development team focussing on strategic land and development.
Zoe Miller
Zoe is a Partner in the Real Estate Finance team and the Offices sector team. Zoe has a wealth of experience acting for both funders and borrowers on a wide range of domestic and international real estate finance transactions covering asset classes including office, retail, residential, hotels, care homes, student accommodation and shopping centres. General banking experience includes leveraged finance, asset based lending, restructuring and project finance.
Holly Stylianou
Holly is a Senior Associate in the commercial real estate team with experience in all areas of property management, landlord and tenant, acquisitions and disposals and secured lending for retail, office and industrial sector clients. Holly is also experienced in strategic land projects.
Robin Barnes
Robin is a Senior Associate in the Planning team. Robin has experience in all aspects of town and country planning and is a member of the Strategic Land & Development sector team.
Dellah Gilbert
Dellah is the Head of Dispute Resolution at Maples Teesdale and has extensive experience in a wide variety of property-related contentious commercial property issues through negotiation, mediation or proceedings, including high value dilapidations claims, hostile lease renewals, multi-million pound development disputes, rights of light, rent review and development issues and professional negligence. Dellah is the co-Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Maples Teesdale.
Joanna Ingildsen
Joanna is a Senior Associate in the construction team, specialising in non-contentious matters. As well as drafting and negotiating contracts, she advises on the construction aspects of sales, purchases, lettings and fundings. Joanna has experience acting for clients operating across a range of sectors, including office developments, logistics facilities, data centres and care homes.
Team Services
Our strategic Land team has extensive experience working on both greenfield and urban brownfield sites.
Our team has advised:
- Landowners
- Promoters
- Developers
- Funders/Investors
- Local Authorities
Our approach brings together the in depth expertise of our real estate and planning lawyers with our specialist construction, tax and corporate lawyers. We are able to take a strategic land project from initial identification and assembly through planning to development and disposal.
Our services include:
- Structuring the land acquisition – options, conditional contracts, joint ventures and collaborations and promotion agreements
- Planning advice – development plan representations; planning applications; section 106 agreements and appeals
- Site disposal, phasing and long term estate management
- Tax structuring
Whatever the size and nature of your strategic land project, our expert team will work with you and your advisers to see it is delivered on time and to meet your needs. We work with our clients to enhance their land values and to create viable and sustainable development.