Robert Coombe

Robert handles a wide range of commercial property matters, including acquisitions, disposals, leasing, and portfolio management for investors and corporates, often involving complex, multi-party transactions.

• Managed the commercial property portfolio for a property investment company dealing with its acquisitions disposals and the grant and surrender of leases and all ancillary documents.
• Acted in the grant of a lease of a bespoke HQ office and light industrial building involving a prior agreement for lease, licence for works, and associated collateral warranties.
• Acted in the sale of a multi-let light industrial estate comprising 12 units with ancillary yard and parking.
• Acted in the purchase of a complex commercial investment comprising both retail and restaurant premises let to a multi-national fast-food outlet.
• Acted for a leading surveying and geomatics manufacturer on the leasehold acquisition of its UK HQ building as well as leases of its other UK leasehold premises.
• Acted for several motor dealerships in the acquisition of dealership and workshop premises.
• Acted for several GP practices in the taking of leases of newly built bespoke surgery premises from GPFC.

Robert represents landowners on purchases, sales, and renewable energy projects as well as development agreements including promotion agreements and options. He acts for developers acquiring sites conditional on planning permission.

• Acted for landowners in the negotiation of agreements for lease and options for renewable energy projects including solar farms, battery storage facilities and wind farms involving, inter alia, EDF Energy, Pivoted Power, Welsh Power, and London Array.
• Acted for a farming client in the purchase of several lots of agricultural land totalling 200 acres.
• Acted for a farming family in the securitisation of their entire agricultural landholdings totalling in excess of 30 farms and land parcels.
• Acted for landowner as part of a consortium in connection with the promotion of land for residential development as a new garden village including a collaboration agreement, options, a promotion agreement, and the creation of a pooling trust.
• Acted for various farming clients in the sales of land with the benefit of planning for residential development to national housebuilders for sums  exceeding £22M, £26M and £47M.

Robert specialises in residential and commercial property development, negotiating promotion and option agreements, consortium collaboration deals, and high-value land sales with complex overage, clawback, and deferred payment structures.

• Negotiated numerous promotion agreements with leading land promoters including Gladman Developments, Welbeck Strategic Land, Hallam Land Management, Richborough Estates, Obsidian Land, Catesby Strategic Land, and Ptarmigan.
• Negotiated numerous options with house builders including Taylor Wimpey, Countryside Properties, and Dandara as well as smaller regional developers.
• Drafted and negotiated collaboration agreements between consortium landowners relating to multiple parcel land promotions.
• Acted in the sale of residential development sites to, inter alia, Redrow Homes, Taylor Wimpey, Wates/Vistry, Abbey, BDW and Bovis Homes for sale prices ranging from £5M to over £47M and ancillary legal charges to secure deferred payments as well as overage and clawback provisions.
• Acted in the sale of a 33-acre development site with the benefit of outline planning permission for circa 74,000 sqm of modern, flexible employment space to a developer and pension fund.

Recognised by Chambers UK for Agriculture & Rural Affairs 2025 – 2026