Law firm and UKPF partner Blandy & Blandy advised landowners in a long-running effort to bring forward 1,434 homes to the Wokingham borough.
As well as the homes the project includes plans to build the South Wokingham Distributor Road, a primary school, a local centre including community building and public open space on the outskirts of the town, in an area designated as the South Wokingham Strategic Development Location (SDL).
The scheme is an urban extension to Wokingham town centre and comprises the completed Montague Park development, to the south of London Road near Coppid Beech roundabout, and further land south of the railway between the boundary with Bracknell Forest and Finchampstead Road.
In total it will have around 2,500 new homes.
Jane Gunnell, in Blandy & Blandy’s commercial property & planning team, said: “We are delighted for our clients that this complex project has finally come to fruition after very many years of anticipation.”
Karen Jones, a partner specialising in planning & environmental law, said: “It has been a pleasure to be involved in another extensive development to benefit Wokingham and to see the legal planning documentation secure considerable advantages for the town including the new distributor road.
“Working with the council and other landowners to secure this has been a very rewarding piece of work and I shall look forward to seeing the development come forward in the coming years.”
Property agents and surveyors Simmons & Sons also acted for the clients.
Its development partner Thomas Dunn said: “This proved to be a hugely complex site to bring to fruition, taking many years of difficult negotiation to achieve a planning consent, and we are pleased and delighted to get to a conclusion at long last.”
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