Patrick Adie

Patrick acts for estate owners (both corporate and individual) on a range of transactions, including promotion agreements, options and other strategic land disposals.

Recent Work

• Acting for a consortium of landowners including a charitable trust on the promotion and disposal of a site with a developed value of £60m
• Acting for Harworth Group Plc on ‘Thoresby Vale’, which is part of the world’s first 5G connected forest. The former colliery site is being developed for 800 houses, a 350-acre country park, with a prototype modular housing factory, and utilising Homes England funding.
• Acting for Greenbelt Group (one of the UK’s largest open space management companies) on the management and acquisition of open spaces and amenity areas, including development obligations.

Patrick’s main expertise is in residential development. He acts for numerous top-10 housebuilders, promoters, contractors, housing associations and landowners. He has extensive experience in development agreements, golden-brick agreements, sub-sales, options, promotion agreement, hybrid agreements, collaboration and equalisation agreements, overage, infrastructure agreements, land pooling trusts and farm sharing agreements.

His well-rounded knowledge is a great benefit for clients, particularly at the ‘heads of terms’ stage where can advise on structuring deals in the most suitable and tax efficient manner.

Recent Work

Acting for Harworth Group Plc on ‘Thoresby Vale’, which is part of the world’s first 5G connected forest. The former colliery site is being developed for 800 houses, a 350-acre country park, with a prototype modular housing factory, and utilising Homes England funding.

• Acting as the main legal provider for national promoter Clarendon Land & Development, including setting up their template promotion agreement and acting on over a dozen sites since the company’s formation.
• The acquisition of a 158-acre site in Bristol as part of a major new Sustainable Urban Development, together with several collaboration and promotion agreements, expected to deliver approximately 3000 houses.
• Acting for Barratt David Wilson on the acquisition of a site for a 1000+ homes via a hybrid promotion/ option agreement.
• Acting for United Living Group/ Partner Construction on a 200-unit development of purely affordable housing – one of the largest affordable housing developments in the UK.

Recent Work

• Acting for Harworth Group Plc on ‘Thoresby Vale’, which is part of the world’s first 5G-connected forest. The former colliery site is being developed for 800 houses, a 350-acre country park, with a prototype modular housing factory, and utilising Homes England funding.
• Acting as the main legal provider for national promoter Clarendon Land & Development, including setting up their template promotion agreement and acting on over a dozen sites since the company’s formation.
• The acquisition of a 158-acre site in Bristol as part of a major new Sustainable Urban Development, together with several collaboration and promotion agreements, expected to deliver approximately 3000 houses.
• Acting for Barratt David Wilson on the acquisition of a site for a 1000+ homes via a hybrid promotion/ option agreement.
• Acting for United Living Group/ Partner Construction on a 200-unit development of purely affordable housing – one of the largest affordable housing developments in the UK.
• Acting for Pelham Waterside LLP (a joint venture between a local developer and Nottingham Community Housing Association) on their prestigious waterfront development (recently shortlisted for an award) of 73 homes.
• Acting for Greenbelt Group (one of the UK’s largest open space management companies) on the management and acquisition of open spaces and amenity areas, including development obligations.

Patrick has been involved in a number regeneration projects for town centre and brownfield sites, including acting for Plc regeneration companies, local authorities, local-authority controlled companies, housing associations and joint-ventures.

Recent Work

• Acting for Harworth Group Plc on ‘Thoresby Vale’, which is part of the world’s first 5G connected forest. The site is being developed for 800 houses, a 350-acre country park, with a prototype modular housing factory, and utilising Homes England funding.
• Acting for Nottingham Community Housing Association on the redevelopment of a brownfield site (involving the partial demolition of an existing building), to be built as 80 homes over 3 phases.
• A town centre regeneration for a London Borough Council, including the relocation of a library, commercial leases and shared ownership leases as part of the new library building, the acquisition of land from the Greater London Authority with linked grant funding, and a collaboration agreement with an adjoining landowner for the disposal of 66 residential units to a national housebuilder.
• Acting for Pelham Waterside LLP (a joint venture between a local developer and Nottingham Community Housing Association) on their prestigious waterfront development (recently shortlisted for an award) of 73 homes.

Patrick acts for a number of social housing clients on a wide range of transactions. These include large housing associations, affordable housing contractors and joint-venture entities.

Recent Work

• Acting for United Living Group/ Partner Construction on a 200-unit development of purely affordable housing – one of the largest affordable housing developments in the UK.
• Acting for Nottingham Community Housing Association on the redevelopment of a brownfield site (involving the partial demolition of an existing building), to be built as 80 homes over 3 phases.
• Acting for Pelham Waterside LLP (a joint venture between a local developer and Nottingham Community Housing Association) on their prestigious waterfront development (recently shortlisted for an award) of 73 homes.