Belinda Laurance

Expertise

Belinda specialises in residential development and regeneration sites, regularly advising national developers on land acquisition including conditional contracts, funding agreements, development agreements and building leases. Belinda also advises housebuilders on disposals to registered providers and local authorities. 

Belinda’s expertise is in acting for national housebuilders and for institutional and agricultural landowners. 

She has significant experience in strategic land, advising on option agreements and promotion agreements. She also has expertise in landowner collaboration agreements for strategic sites, advising on equalisation and land pooling arrangements.

How do you help clients?

I regularly advise national developers on land acquisition including conditional contracts, development agreements and building leases.

I help housebuilder clients navigate grant funding agreements and achieve disposals to registered providers and local authorities.

I have significant expertise in landowner collaboration agreements for strategic sites, advising on equalisation and land pooling arrangements.

Experience

1. Advising an institutional landowner on the strategic promotion of a large development site with multiple landowners.
2. Advising a national housebuilder on the acquisition of a regeneration site using latest Homes England DPP3 structure.
3. Acting for a local authority in mixed-use town centre redevelopment.
4. Advising multiple landowners on the promotion and sale of land pursuant to a sustainable urban extension.
5. Acting for a consortium of landowners on the promotion of a 400 acre development site under a collaboration agreement.