Trowers & Hamlins LLP’s social housing team advises on development, governance, mergers, funding, regulation, and grants. Suzanne Benson heads the team, specialising in major projects, including regeneration and homeownership products. Melanie Comer focuses on property security for housing finance transactions. Richard St John Williams advises on affordable housing, governance, and mergers and Sam Coward is an expert in residential leasehold management and disputes. Ru Anwar handles landlord and tenant matters and PFI restructuring, and Louise Robinson advises on stock rationalisations, acquisitions, and estate management. Lynn James and Darren Ashworth departed the firm in 2024.
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‘The team are very knowledgeable, responsive and thorough, and are very easy to work with. They deliver.’
‘They are experts in their field and their wide breadth of knowledge assists with the complex projects that we bring forward. They are also pragmatic and are solutions focused.’
Key clients
- The Guinness Partnership
- The Peabody Trust
- Great Places Housing Group
- Citizen Housing Group
- Hyde Housing
- Anchor Hanover
- Plus Dane
- Mosscare St Vincents
- Community Gateway
- Midland Heart
- Bromford Housing Group
- Sovereign Network
Work highlights
Advised Clarion on the receipt through its development subsidiary, Latimer Developments, of £4.8m in brownfield grant funding from Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) to part fund the redevelopment of the former Boddingtons brewery site in central Manchester.
Advising the Riverside Group on the regeneration of the Local Centre and The Uplands in the Halton Lea area of Runcorn valued at £60m. The project will provide new housing and business and community space together with infrastructure and is being delivered by a JV LLP set up between Riverside and Lovell Partnerships Limited.
Acted for Abri and its development company (Radian Developments Limited) in the establishment of this joint venture with Vistry which will build 1,500 new homes.
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Practice head
Suzanne Benson
Other key lawyers
Melanie Comer; Richard St John Williams; Sam Coward; Ru Anwar; Louise Robinson; Tom Wainwright