Rachel is a specialist residential development lawyer with a strong background acting for residential developers, housing associations and registered providers (both for-profit and not-for-profit). She provides clear, strategic advice throughout the development life cycle – from site acquisition through to disposal.
She has extensive experience in all aspects of residential development and affordable housing, advising on site acquisitions, development agreements, options, conditional contracts, joint ventures and strategic partnership arrangements, golden brick and turnkey schemes, intra-company arrangements, mixed-use acquisitions, commercial leasebacks, community-led housing projects, overage and infrastructure agreements including major regeneration schemes exceeding £300m in value.
Rachel combines sophisticated communication skills with strong commercial understanding. Building and sustaining long-term client relationships is at the heart of her approach.
Rachel qualified as a solicitor in 2012 and holds a first-class degree in Land Economy (MA Cantab) from the University of Cambridge.
Outside of work, Rachel enjoys cycling, keeping fit, walking the coast path and spending time with her daughters.
“I am passionate about helping clients unlock the potential of complex sites and deliver much needed housing. The most rewarding part of my role is working collaboratively to find practical solutions that make a real difference to communities.”
“Rachel epitomises what we look for in a law firm - she is friendly and personable, but also extremely professional and knowledgeable. She is pragmatic and understands the risks we are willing to tolerate and what our non-negotiables are, and her recommendations are always well considered and explained."
The Legal 500“Rachel is very pragmatic, a great communicator and very knowledgeable.”
Chambers & Partners