Social Housing

Stones has been active in the Social Housing field for over twenty years. We act for social landlords, registered and unregistered, traditional housing associations and their LSVT (Large Scale Voluntary Transfer) counterparts, throughout the south of England.

Our expertise in Social Housing has been recognised by the two leading independent guides to the legal profession, the Chambers Guide and the Legal 500.  Chambers UK 2008 states that "Commentators underline the pragmatic, savvy and detailed, Nick Dyer whose 20 years of non-contentious experience drives his social housing group.  His time is spent on the purchase of development land, management agreements and the funding of care homes.   Prompt responses and extreme thoroughness lie behind the success of his three-lawyer team."

We have experience in all major areas of legal work of interest to social landlords including:

• Site acquisition and development and ancillary matters such as Section 106 planning agreements and other planning issues, easements, road and sewer agreements etc.
• Management agreements with other RSLs (Registered Social Landlord), care providers and charities.
• ASBOs and possession cases.
• Landlord and tenant matters.
• Residential and Business leases.
• Agreements with health authorities / trusts relating to the transfer, leasing and/or management of care homes and the related funding arrangements.
• Loan facility agreements and the charging of completed housing schemes.
• Shared ownership schemes.
• Leasehold schemes for the elderly, schemes for those with learning disabilities and other special needs schemes.
• Construction issues (contentious and non-contentious).
• Right to buy / acquire.
• Debt Recovery