Julia Thomson is always readily available and happy to pick up tasks whenever required. Her sensible, fast approach is a key quality that serves well for repeat business. Julia fully explains all legal issues in detail and in easily understandable language.
Julia’s work in residential development has been for housebuilders, the public sector, landowners and registered providers; she has been involved in the assembly, acquisition and disposal of flagship regeneration schemes in the North East and also in national land assembly projects – including the Middlehaven development, large scale housing schemes, the transfer of all of the parks and allotments in Newcastle City to a newly formed trust, acting for the lead developer of the new Burtree Garden Village for the construction of 800 new homes and other complex large scale regeneration.
She has expertise in all aspects of development – from bid and heads of terms stage through to assembly, financing and acquisition to delivery and eventual disposal. She is used to leading multi-disciplinary legal teams to bring large development projects to a successful conclusion.
Julia is also very experienced in social housing: leading teams carrying out large scale securitisations, acting on land led and s.106 acquisitions and advising on all peripheral matters.