Charlotte Cook

Charlotte is a Partner in the Social Housing arm of our Real Estate team. She has extensive experience working with Registered Providers, NHS bodies, local authorities, and with other care and support organisations. She has particular expertise in development work (including planning gain and management areas, as well as construction and ancillary matters, both on greenfield and regeneration sites) as well as working with sheltered, supported housing and extra care providers.

Charlotte also advises on non-contentious housing management matters including tenancy agreements, support contacts and handbooks. She is also Chair of Winckworth Sherwood’s CSR Committee.

Recent Experience

• Acting on behalf of an RP in its land based acquisition at the Linmere development, a significant redevelopment of land in Houghton Regis, in conjunction with Avia Life & Pensions Limited, as site wide “master developer”.  This forms part of an ongoing much wider regeneration of the wider area, with associated major infrastructure works, including the build of new highways infrastructure, and a new junction to the M11 motorway.This is an ongoing newbuild project on ex-farmland, and satisfaction of LA Local Plan concerns has been key to achieve an effective and sensible redevelopment. Environmental matter and place making have been key.

  This is a continuing phased development, and our role has regard to the all parties desires to strategically land plan throughout.

• Act for St Mungo in conjunction with its use of Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government funding (“everyone in”) for the provision of supported care accommodation for ex-street homeless individuals. This has required the acquisition of a significant portfolio of street properties across Britain and the South-West for the Association, acting at speed to ensure the use of grand funding within the timetabling set by the Ministry.The Covid-19 pandemic has seen a growing awareness of the need to provide better and more secured accommodation for individuals who would otherwise be street homeless, and as such this scheme is one which the department is very proud to have been involved.

• Having acquired the scheme for One Housing Group, acting for them in the disposal of extra care units at its BankHouse development (a Berkeley Homes development, within a Norman Foster designed scheme) on the London Embankment.Tonic are an LGBTQ+ provider, and will be providing accommodation to individuals often marginalised from society, to provide for a joined up and cohesive extra care scheme for older people.

Professional Memberships

• Trustee of local charity Bede House.
• Shadow chair of the Friends of West Ham Park