Sharratts bolsters Development Team with hire of affordable housing specialist as partner

Law firm Sharratts has bolstered its Development Team with the hire of Kevin Edwards as a partner.

Edwards, who joins from Devonshires, has nearly 20 years’ experience in new build development work in the affordable housing sector.

He acts for developer/land-owner and investor clients on the delivery of complex and large scale development and regeneration projects.

After qualifying at the Homes and Communities Agency, Edwards has worked for a number of established firms operating in the affordable housing sector nationwide including Bevan Brittan (during which he spent time on secondment within a London borough’s property legal team), Devonshires (acting on various development and joint ventures, as well as DBOM contracts and larger redevelopment projects), Shakespeare Martineau and Birketts.

Edwards said: “I am delighted to be joining the team at Sharratts. The firm is well known for its excellent client-led service and entirely affordable housing focussed work. 

“The sector as whole is going through an unprecedented period of change and challenge on many fronts (the carbon agenda, planning challenges, fire and building safety issues, proposed leasehold reform, increased development costs, pressure on rental receipts and lack of government policy direction to name but a few) and I am excited to start working with Sharrratts and their clients (and my existing contacts) to help steer through these issues and continue to deliver the affordable housing the country needs.”