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We acted for The Hyde Group in connection with the purchase of 283 homes from Town & Country.

Devonshires Solicitors has bolstered its banking, governance and corporate team with the appointment of Martin Lewis as a consultant.

We advised The Hyde Group in connection with a successful consortium bid, with Mount Anvil, to be a member of a TfL panel to develop TfL sites.

We advised L&Q New Homes on a joint venture with the Anderson Group to build 600 homes on the site of the former Erith Quarry, in Bexley.

We advised L&Q New Homes on the acquisition of a 51% interest, from Bellway Homes, in a joint venture to develop the 179 hectare former Barking power station.

We advised an international housing charity on issue of a social impact bond to fund community development in Africa.

We have advised over 20 registered housing provider groups on their registration with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Devonshires are delighted to have been retained by Community Housing Cymru, the representative body for housing associations in Wales to advise on the implications of the decision by the Office for National Statistics in England to reclassify housing associations in England as public bodies.

Devonshires has acted for the National Housing Federation on the new Voluntary Right to Buy Proposal and the reclassification by the Office for National Statistics of housing associations as public bodies.

They say it takes a village to raise a child. George Osborne appears to agree with this proverb in some respects with a proposed extension of Shared Parental Leave to grandparents.

​If a leaseholder reports a repair, for example a problem with the roof, then the landlord will need to consider if it is responsible for the repair works to the building or internal repairs to the leaseholder’s property and how it will be paid for.

In March this year, the Government introduced the Modern Slavery Act 2015 to tackle slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour and human trafficking in England and Wales.