Joanna Clarke

Partner
T: +44 (0)117 3218065
F: +44 (0)117 3218015
j.clarke@ashfords.co.uk

Joanna is a Partner and heads up the Commercial Property Team in our Bristol office. She specialises in commercial property work for the public and private sector. Joanna’s particular specialism is advising on commercial and residential development, local authority and health related projects (including third party development), acquisitions and private finance initiatives. Joanna is also dealing with private sector utility developments.

Joanna joined Ashfords in 2006 and was made partner in 2008.

Joanna was the Director and President of the Bristol Law Society in 2005 and is a member of Women in Property Bristol Property Agents.

Recent experience includes:

• advising a developer upon a number of acquisitions and disposals for commercial and residential development, including the acquisition of land in Weston Super-Mare for £4.5 million with complex title and planning issues and a detailed Section 106 Agreement and arrangements with West Mendip Drainage Board. The transaction included the negotiation of indemnities, future adjustment of boundaries and complex service arrangements with sterilisation payments;
• advised a developer upon a collaboration agreement and disposal for the development of a large residential and commercial development site in Taunton. This involved advising upon the strategic requirements of the development and dealing with the disposal to RSL, co-ordinating the sales information for the residential sales and disposal of the commercial site and dealing with development of the phased infrastructure. Disposal value of the first phase being £12 million and £100 million for the whole site;
• advising Devon County Council on all property issues arising from a section 106 agreement for the development of 2900 houses at Cranbrook Devon. This includes investigation of title, transfers of land, warranties for the development and negotiation of leasehold arrangements for shared premises and short term occupation of on site accommodation;
• advising General Medical Practioners across the country with the property aspects of new surgeries and resource centres including leasehold and freehold acquisitions with conditions, options, warranties, leases and conditional agreements for lease, funding documentation and issues relating to the reimbursement of rent; and
• advising a City Council as Landlord on the leasehold acquisition and simultaneous surrender of 3 plots of land in order to facilitate the first phase of the multi million pound redevelopment of the city centre. The acquisitions were conditional upon funding from English Partnerships. Advising on English Partnership’s grant funding agreement and negotiated with their solicitors on the property due diligence they required and the acceptable form of a certificate of title to be given on behalf of the City Council to enable the grant funding to be released.