Jessica specialises in all aspects of public sector housing, advising on key legal issues in relation to vires and structuring, public sector development and has particular experience in public sector funding arrangements.
Jessica has advised Homes England and Greater London Authority's affordable housing programmes since 2015, including the new Social and Affordable Homes Programme 2026 – 36. She has also been instructed on a wide range of bespoke grant funding agreements between public authorities and third parties (e.g. community housing, Right to Buy receipts, modular housing, infrastructure funding) as well as decarbonisation funding programmes such as the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund, the Heat Network Fund, Warm Homes: Local Grant. Her work spans the development of template funding agreements, review and negotiation and State Aid / Subsidy Control compliant structuring.More widely, she has advised both local authorities and housing associations on a wide range of social housing projects including in relation to local housing companies, corporate and contractual joint ventures, consortiums and other partnerships and direct delivery arrangements. In this role she has provided in-depth advice on structuring, regulation and governance including in relation to vires (powers), statutory consents, state aid / subsidy control, governance and local authority accounting rules. Clients have included Hyde Housing Association, Camden Council, Lewisham Council, Citizen Housing, Harlow and Gilston Garden Town, Canterbury, Islington, South Kesteven, Southwark, Stoke-on-Trent, St. Albans, Wokingham and Wolverhampton.
