The housebuilding and development team in law firm Ashfords’ Bristol office has been strengthened with the arrival of two new legal directors.
The addition of Rebecca Dixon and Tanya Edmonds to the team boosts the team’s expertise across all areas of housing development from acquisition and disposal of housing developments to complex litigation and tenancy management issues. 
Rebecca, pictured right, specialises in land development projects, advising on the initial purchase through to development and plot sales.
She has experience advising on title defects, third-party rights acquisition, drainage, highway regulations and licensing.
She has joined Ashfords from the Bristol office of law firm Thrings, where she spent seven-and-a-half years as an associate and then a legal director. She has also worked for full-service national law firms TLT and Beachcroft Wansbrough (now DAC Beachcroft) and for specialist property law firms Murrell Associates.
Tanya, pictured below, has joined Ashfords from the development team of law firm Foot Anstey, where she spent a year as a managing associate. Prior to that she worked for more than 10 years at Clarke Willmott as a senior associate.
She has more than 10 years’ experience in all aspects of acquisitions and development projects for registered providers and private SME developers.
Tanya also has a particular focus on acting for registered providers in connection with section 106 acquisitions, land and build transactions and associated intra-company arrangements.
Ashfords’ housebuilding and development team works with the full housing development supply chain across the UK, including private developers, housebuilders, social housing providers, construction businesses, landowners, land promoters and land agents.
The team’s recent work has included supporting Wichelstowe, a joint venture between Swindon Borough Council and Barratt David Wilson Homes, across multiple service lines as it creates a new community of around 2,750 homes south of the town.
The team has also helped independent Cornish housebuilder Bunnyhomes with multiple sites on a ‘cradle-to-grave’ basis. In total last year its plot sales teams acted for private developers and registered providers on more than 1,200 completions.
Ashfords partner and head of real estate, Kate Topp, said: “At Ashfords we’re committed to getting under the skin of the housebuilding sector and helping our clients with their delivery of housing to support government targets and wider sustainable housing requirements.”
Ashfords employs more than 500 people across its offices in Bristol, Exeter, London and Plymouth.
