Clive is a member of our real estate group, leading our public law property team. His team provides development, planning and commercial property advice to a wide range of public sector clients, in particular education institutions, local authorities and police authorities. He has led teams acting for clients wishing to rationalise and redevelop their estates infrastructure including addressing key strategic issues such as timing, funding and the inter-relation between capital receipts and sales and reinvesting funds in capital projects.
Transaction highlights for Clive include: acting for a local authority in a collaboration agreement to install infrastructure to serve a 50 hectare site for residential and employment use in a Midlands town, in the context of addressing flood alleviation issues; advising on the acquisition and development of a mixed use inner-city campus in a joint venture with a regional development agency and two local authorities in a project with a capital value of £60-£80 million; the rationalisation of many college estates including numerous sales off to residential developers, ploughing the proceeds into the development of brand new campuses and negotiating planning and highways agreements; the regeneration of brown field sites including the establishment of technology parks such as at Coventry on the former Rolls Royce site; and working on PPP projects involving student accommodation at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and Stratford College.
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