Housing association selects 15 firms for £4m legal services framework

Eastlight Community Homes, which owns and looks after 12,500 social homes in the region and plans to build another 3,800 by 2025, advertised the four-year framework agreement in the Autumn of this year.

The framework is divided into the following lots:

1. Property (Acquisitions and disposals, leases, licenses and conveyancing, landlord and tenant matters, right to buy, social housing, leaseholder matters, social tenancy advice, property charging, adverse possession claims)
2. Property development (Site acquisition/option agreements, procurement and contractual matters, planning, sectional agreements and community infrastructure levy, environmental, compulsory purchase, new build sales and conveyancing)
3. Housing Management Advice (Advice on anti-social behaviour, estate management and tenancy matters, disrepair claims, unlawful occupiers, debt recovery)
4. General Commercial (Public procurement law, contract advice, drafting and law, dispute resolution, outsourcing/contracting out of services, joint ventures, corporate finance, insurance indemnity)
5. Employment (Employment law, equality issues, TUPE, pensions, health & safety, organisational change)
6. Financial (Company law, corporate finance, governance, company secretarial duties, taxation, joint ventures and venture capital advice)

The successful firms were:

• Anthony Collins Solicitors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• BDB Pitmans (1, 2, 3, 5)
• Birketts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Capsticks Solicitors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Devonshires Solicitors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Ellisons Solicitors (1, 2, 3)
• Foot Anstey (1, 2)
• Holmes & Hills (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Howes Percival (1, 2, 3, 5)
• JMW Solicitors (1, 2, 3)
• Judge & Priestley (2)
• Penningtons Manches Cooper (1, 2, 5)
• Sharratts (1, 2)
• TLT (1, 2, 3, 5)
• Trowers & Hamlins (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

The framework agreement will commence 28 January 2023 and will be open to Eastlight and the Procurement Alliance for Essex (PAE) members.

Adam Carey