Experience
Lee acts for Homes England, Royal Borough of Greenwich and other London Boroughs, Newcastle City Council, Gateshead Borough Council and other local authorities such as Conwy County Borough Council, West Lindsey District Council and South Tyneside Council. He is the DWF lead for the NEPO513 Legal Services Panel. He has extensive experience advising on the Pagabo Developer-Led Framework and other procurement solutions for regeneration and development projects.Lee is also the Office Managing Partner of our Newcastle (UK) office.
Recent Projects
- Homes England in relation to site assembly acquisitions, their accelerated delivery programme, residential developer panel procurement programme and advising the contingents assets and liabilities team.
- Bradford City Council in relation to the City Village mixed use regeneration project.
- Royal Borough of Greenwich on various regeneration programmes including a new leisure centre and residential scheme in Woolwich Town Centre, Woolwich Exchange regeneration, Charlton Riverside and temporary accommodation projects South Tyneside on the regeneration of a former shipyard into a riverside housing regeneration scheme with enabling works at Holborn.
- Liverpool City Council in relation to their flagship housing regeneration at Festival Gardens.
- Tameside Borough Council on their Godley Green Garden Village project in joint venture with MADE Partnership.
- Numerous local authorities on town and city centre redevelopments using the Pagabo Developer-Led Framework.
Testimonials
- Lee has been a Legal 500 recommended lawyer for both real estate and social housing and for being 'commercial' and ‘.... technically strong, commercial, and has good wider sector contacts’ and as a 'key port of call for the team's public sector clients'.
- He has been also ranked by Chambers & Partners (since 2018) for both real estate and social housing and noted for 'extensive experience in property transactions involving residential property' acting for 'social housing providers and public authorities on housing-led regeneration and other development projects' and advising 'local authorities and housing associations on a range of social housing matters' and 'public sector organisations on regeneration projects'. where clients remark that:
- "Lee Pickett is a great commercial lawyer and can understand our business and what we want to achieve quickly."
- "Lee is impressive because he is very practical and gets the deal done. He takes the heat out of discussions and is very practical."
- "He has got a good handle on sector trends."
- "Lee has been an unequivocal support to us; personable, committed and always striving to improve how DWF support us."