Melinda is an Associate in our Residential Development Team and qualified as a Solicitor in 1995.

She has more than 25 years’ experience acting for private developers, from local to national, and registered providers on property development matters.

Melinda focuses on:

  • Site acquisitions – conditional and unconditional contracts, options and consortium developments.
  • The provision of infrastructure for development.
  • Affordable housing sales and acquisitions.
  • Site set-up arrangements for plot sales including management arrangements for shared facilities and overseeing plots sales.
  • Legacy issues such as amendments to infrastructure agreements and the granting of additional easements to procure the final adoption of estate infrastructure

Melinda graduated from Nottingham Law School with a 2:1 Honours Law Degree and obtained a merit in The Law Society’s final examinations, before completing a training contract in South East London and qualifying as a Solicitor in 1995. After an early career in private practice, the majority of Melinda’s career to date was spent in-house with major national developers, before returning to private practice in 2017 and joining Birketts in 2023, following Birketts’ merger with Batchelors.

Recent work highlights

Acquisition by way of conditional contract for long lease incorporating a building licence of overage provisions of former council buildings for redevelopment.

Unconditional acquisition with four associated options subject to planning for further parcels for a high end residential development  in south east London.

Successfully advising on  a solution to issues preventing adoption by the highways authority of estate roads on a major development and concluding successfully to enable final adoption.

Areas of Expertise

Accreditations

Conveyancing Quality Scheme

Accredited

Home Builders Federation

Member

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