Joanne Burton

Jo Burton has 20 years of property experience, and has spent 15 of those working in the education sector.

She supports education clients in all aspects of estate management acting for a broad range of clients with her focus being schools/academies in the maintained sector and FE Colleges. This includes advising on landlord and tenant issues; sales and acquisitions; DfE consents and caretaker's accommodation queries.

The higher profile types of work she has dealt with involve complex disposals of school playing field land to housing developers. This is with a view to extracting capital value to invest back into school capital build projects. These projects usually include complex overage and planning issues together with liaising with the Department for Education for consent to sell the land. commented on.

Thought leadership and being able to shape government policy at educational events is something that Jo is passionate about. Jo will often give webinars and be involved at speaking events at various intermediaries and educational conferences.

Jo works in the Commercial Property Team based across VWV's Bristol and Birmingham offices, but works nationally for education clients across the country.