In recent years we’ve seen an increase in enforcement matters being investigated and people being willing to raise matters in Court proceedings.
We can handle planning appeals, judicial review, call-ins, inquiries, hearings, written representations, local plan examinations, challenges to compulsory purchase orders and more.
We can also advise you on breach of planning or listed building regulations, breach of condition notices, enforcement notice appeals and certificates of lawfulness. We can represent you during prosecution or regulatory enforcement from the planning authorities.
We have a strong presence in the education sector, with particular expertise in enabling development projects where funds from residential schemes are used to support capital projects by education providers.
Our team can provide strategic planning law advice and deal with all planning and infrastructure agreements (i.e. s106, s278, s38, s75 agreements) that your development needs.
We advise on all aspects of highway planning, practice and procedure. We’re also experienced in working with local highway authorities.
We can help you with matters such as highway licences, highways agreements, stopping up orders, privately maintained highways and compulsory purchase orders. We can also help local authorities with the promotion of highway developments on their behalf.
We’ve built a solid reputation which is ever growing for providing strategic advice to house builders and specialist housing providers, such as PBSA and BTR sectors. This includes property and corporate due diligence, section 106 agreements which deal with the particular issues of the development, community infrastructure levy (CIL) as well as strategic planning, enforcement and environmental advice.
We also advise individuals on planning issues affecting their properties. We can advise on appeals to planning decisions of the Council, objections to planning applications, and carry out the judicial review of unlawful planning permissions.
Our lawyers are members of several manufacturing organisations such as the:
- Chartered Institute of Wastes Management
- Manufacturing Technologies Association
- Food and Drink Alliance.
We also work with the Manufacturers’ Alliance to support their members.
As such we are well versed in meeting the needs of the sector. This could be providing advice as to site location and expansion, advice on logistics and transport hubs for your products through to dealing with the environmental regulatory framework and the regulators if things go wrong.
We're experts in dealing with the impact of climate change and sustainability dealing with matters such as these to help future proof you site’s location and manufacturing process.
We're all becoming more energy aware. Whether this is to combat the rising cost of energy or implementing plans to be energy secure, we can assist in a number of ways. Our lawyers provide a one stop shop from planning and environmental, land assembly and leasehold, to connection and grid capacity issues.
We have a strong track record in promoting mixed use, regeneration schemes involving former brownfield land, often in the context of the redevelopment of former industrial land.
We work with our wider real estate and construction teams and provide an end-to-end service covering all the legal disciplines needed to turn an empty site into a finished and occupied development.
Commercial property planning reforms have improved the flexibility for the creation of new retail premises. However, there are still several pitfalls that all developers must consider, especially when changing the use of the premises.
We’re experienced in all planning matters related to retail development. We’ve previously provided planning advice for several retail developers including the negotiation of planning agreements, carrying out due diligence for the acquisition of development sites, helping with community infrastructure levy (CIL), dealing with planning appeals and judicial review, and more.
We’ve secured a number of planning permissions for retirement accommodation across all parts of the sector, from high end retirement apartments to care homes and dementia units.
Our commitment to retirement living is highlighted by us hosting Property Week’s annual Retirement Living Conference as well as our market leading research with Knight Frank.
The team headed by James Pavey deals with agricultural and landed estates work. This includes all real estate transactional as well as the planning advice which is critical to those transactions.
Strategic land refers to areas that can’t be currently developed, but have the potential to be developed in the future. In these lands, works must be carried out to show that the principle of development is acceptable.
We have lots of experience in promoting strategic developments. Recent projects include the continuing development of Shopwhyke Lakes in Chichester.
