Gateley Legal

Leanne is a specialist residential development lawyer with a strong background acting for national and local developers on site acquisitions, disposals and strategic land acquisitions. She has great understanding of the mechanics of Land Promotion Agreements and long-term strategic land projects and is an experienced negotiator and draftsmen for conditional land contracts, option agreements, JV development agreements and collaboration agreements.

Leanne also acts for specialist care home providers, including the acquisition of development sites either through conditional contracts, JVs and/ or collaboration agreements for the eventual development of care home villages. She specialises in varying section 106 agreements in terms of affordable housing provisions across to extra care.

Having previously worked in-house for a residential developer as legal director/ general counsel for a number of years, Leanne has great in-depth knowledge of the journey of a residential site from tender stages through to acquisition and then onto site set up and plot sale disposal.

Leanne has dual knowledge of Welsh and English planning law.