Leading Thames Valley law firm Blandy & Blandy has advised landowner clients as part of the project to build the planned South Wokingham Distributor Road and up to 1,434 new homes, 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).
According to Wokingham Borough Council, commenting on the wider development area: ‘The South Wokingham major development is an urban extension of Wokingham town. It 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.
It will have about 2,500 new homes, two new primary schools, shops and other amenities in two neighbourhood centres, open green spaces and new roads including the South Wokingham Distributor Road.’
Further information is available at www.wokingham.gov.uk/roads/major-projects/south-wokingham-distributor-road.
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.”
Colleague Karen Jones, a partner specialising in Planning & Environmental Law, added: “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.
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.”
Blandy & Blandy’s Wokingham office is located at 5 Market Place. The firm also has offices in Reading and Henley-on-Thames. For further information or legal advice, please visit www.blandy.co.uk.
