Patrick Adie
National Head of Housebuilding & Strategic Land | Nottingham
“Patrick Adie is hard-working, commercially minded, and pragmatic and when providing advice it is clear and understandable. Patrick understands our requirements as his client and ensures this is reflected in each deal he works on for us.”
The Legal 500, 2025
Call: 0345 050 3273 Mobile: 0792 160 3239
About Patrick
Patrick is the National Head of Housebuilding & Strategic Land at Freeths, with responsibility for this sector across our 13 offices. He acts for many of the UK’s top-10 and top-20 housebuilders, developers, housing associations, contractors, promoters and estate owners. He specialises in large residential-led schemes (both immediate and strategic land) but has significant experience on all types of real estate transactions including mixed use developments, investment transactions, finance/funding and social housing.
He is known for providing an outstanding level of client service by being commercially focussed, highly responsive, working collaboratively with all those involved and finding pragmatic solutions. He concentrates on the long-term ‘bigger picture’ of transactions and client relationships.
Patrick was awarded ‘Solicitor of the Year 2022’ by Nottinghamshire Law Society. He is previous recipient of ‘Junior Lawyer of the Year’. He was also named as one of the ‘Top 10 Remarkable East Midlands Real Estate Lawyers to Watch’ in 2023 by Business Today. Patrick is listed as a Leading Individual in Chambers & Partners (2025 edition).
The team that Patrick leads won ‘Law Firm of the Year 2024’ at the Insider Midlands Residential Property Awards, and the team shared the award for its part in the ‘Property Deal of the Year 2024’ at the Insider East Midlands Property Awards.
Patrick hold a 1st Class Degree in Law and a 1st Class Degree and Masters in Physics.
Patrick has been a board member and trustee for various charities including Faith in Families (an adoption agency) and The Opportunities Fund (a grant giving charity). He is currently an Executive Sponsor of the Balance Network at Freeths, in order to ally with and promote gender equity initiatives at the firm.
Contact Patrick
Call: 0345 050 3273
Mobile: 0792 160 3239
Notable work & expertise
Patrick acts for estate owners (both corporate and individual) on a range of transactions, including promotion agreements, options and other strategic land disposals.
Recent Work
- Acting for a consortium of landowners including a charitable trust on the promotion and disposal of a site with a developed value of £60m
- Acting for Harworth Group Plc on ‘Thoresby Vale’, which is part of the world’s first 5G connected forest. The former colliery site is being developed for 800 houses, a 350-acre country park, with a prototype modular housing factory, and utilising Homes England funding.
- Acting for Greenbelt Group (one of the UK’s largest open space management companies) on the management and acquisition of open spaces and amenity areas, including development obligations.
Patrick’s main expertise is in residential development. He acts for numerous top-10 housebuilders, promoters, contractors, housing associations and landowners. He has extensive experience in development agreements, golden-brick agreements, sub-sales, options, promotion agreement, hybrid agreements, collaboration and equalisation agreements, overage, infrastructure agreements, land pooling trusts and farm sharing agreements.
His well-rounded knowledge is a great benefit for clients, particularly at the ‘heads of terms’ stage where can advise on structuring deals in the most suitable and tax efficient manner.
Recent Work
Acting for Harworth Group Plc on ‘Thoresby Vale’, which is part of the world’s first 5G connected forest. The former colliery site is being developed for 800 houses, a 350-acre country park, with a prototype modular housing factory, and utilising Homes England funding.
- Acting as the main legal provider for national promoter Clarendon Land & Development, including setting up their template promotion agreement and acting on over a dozen sites since the company’s formation.
- The acquisition of a 158-acre site in Bristol as part of a major new Sustainable Urban Development, together with several collaboration and promotion agreements, expected to deliver approximately 3000 houses.
- Acting for Barratt David Wilson on the acquisition of a site for a 1000+ homes via a hybrid promotion/ option agreement.
- Acting for United Living Group/ Partner Construction on a 200-unit development of purely affordable housing – one of the largest affordable housing developments in the UK.
Recent Work
- Acting for Harworth Group Plc on ‘Thoresby Vale’, which is part of the world’s first 5G-connected forest. The former colliery site is being developed for 800 houses, a 350-acre country park, with a prototype modular housing factory, and utilising Homes England funding.
- Acting as the main legal provider for national promoter Clarendon Land & Development, including setting up their template promotion agreement and acting on over a dozen sites since the company’s formation.
- The acquisition of a 158-acre site in Bristol as part of a major new Sustainable Urban Development, together with several collaboration and promotion agreements, expected to deliver approximately 3000 houses.
- Acting for Barratt David Wilson on the acquisition of a site for a 1000+ homes via a hybrid promotion/ option agreement.
- Acting for United Living Group/ Partner Construction on a 200-unit development of purely affordable housing – one of the largest affordable housing developments in the UK.
- Acting for Pelham Waterside LLP (a joint venture between a local developer and Nottingham Community Housing Association) on their prestigious waterfront development (recently shortlisted for an award) of 73 homes.
- Acting for Greenbelt Group (one of the UK’s largest open space management companies) on the management and acquisition of open spaces and amenity areas, including development obligations.
Patrick has been involved in a number regeneration projects for town centre and brownfield sites, including acting for Plc regeneration companies, local authorities, local-authority controlled companies, housing associations and joint-ventures.
Recent Work
- Acting for Harworth Group Plc on ‘Thoresby Vale’, which is part of the world’s first 5G connected forest. The site is being developed for 800 houses, a 350-acre country park, with a prototype modular housing factory, and utilising Homes England funding.
- Acting for Nottingham Community Housing Association on the redevelopment of a brownfield site (involving the partial demolition of an existing building), to be built as 80 homes over 3 phases.
- A town centre regeneration for a London Borough Council, including the relocation of a library, commercial leases and shared ownership leases as part of the new library building, the acquisition of land from the Greater London Authority with linked grant funding, and a collaboration agreement with an adjoining landowner for the disposal of 66 residential units to a national housebuilder.
- Acting for Pelham Waterside LLP (a joint venture between a local developer and Nottingham Community Housing Association) on their prestigious waterfront development (recently shortlisted for an award) of 73 homes.
Patrick acts for a number of social housing clients on a wide range of transactions. These include large housing associations, affordable housing contractors and joint-venture entities.
Recent Work
- Acting for United Living Group/ Partner Construction on a 200-unit development of purely affordable housing – one of the largest affordable housing developments in the UK.
- Acting for Nottingham Community Housing Association on the redevelopment of a brownfield site (involving the partial demolition of an existing building), to be built as 80 homes over 3 phases.
- Acting for Pelham Waterside LLP (a joint venture between a local developer and Nottingham Community Housing Association) on their prestigious waterfront development (recently shortlisted for an award) of 73 homes.
Testimonial
SB
“Patrick provides clear, commercial advice and he works tirelessly to make sure our transactions move forward successfully. He is a great asset to...
Steve Brandon
Inside Land Group
TD
“We have used Patrick as our main legal provider on a wide range of commercial property transactions for several years – mostly for residential dev...
Tom Dickens, Director
Inside Land
CL
“For me, the key to acquiring the services of a good Lawyer in the world of Real Estate and Residential Development is ascertaining pro-activeness,...
Chris Loizou, Head of Development Midlands
Partner Construction Ltd
JM
“I have instructed Patrick to act on a number of commercial and residential property transactions, and have always had great service and profession...
John Murphy, Director
Isle of Man Based Companies
KC
“Patrick has a good understanding of business objectives and drivers – he has highlighted potential issues where they could impact on business desp...
Kate Callis, Programme Manager
Telford & Wrekin Council
WVC
“Once again, outstanding job well done.”
Will Van Cutsem, Director
Pigeon
“Thank you so much for all the hard work you’ve done to enable us to exchange contracts, we really appreciate it. Your negotiating skills are somet...
Philip and Linda Dalton
Land Owners
AH
“Patrick consistently provides a professional, pragmatic approach to delivering on a range of commercial acquisition agreements.”
Andrew Hampton, Regional Development Director
Greenbelt Group Ltd
SB
“Patrick provides clear, commercial advice and he works tirelessly to make sure our transactions move forward successfully. He is a great asset to...
Steve Brandon
Inside Land Group
"Patrick Adie is a reassuring, commercially focused presence in complex land negotiations."
The Legal 500, 2025
"He is an exceptional lawyer who is responsive, pragmatic and commercial. He acts in the best interests of his clients."
Chambers & Partners, 2025
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