Our Expertise

The firm undertakes all planning related work including:

  • Strategic advice on large scale development proposals
  • Reviewing planning applications prior to submission
  • Monitoring and controlling the planning application process from a legal perspective, including team management and direction of technical experts
  • Local Plans including drafting representations and Examinations in Public
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Drafting and negotiating S106 Agreements and all other planning and highways legal agreements
  • Bringing and defending claims for judicial review and statutory challenge in the High Court, including seeking to minimise the risk of challenge
  • Planning appeals, including acting at major public inquiries
  • Listed Building and Heritage issues
  • Community Infrastructure Levy
  • Reviewing and interpreting planning conditions and obligations
  • Planning Due Diligence and advice on property and corporate transactions
  • Permitted Development Rights
  • Enforcement issues
  • Compulsory Purchase – promotion of CPO’s, objections and compensation matters
  • Highways issues
  • Advising Landowners affected by applications for Development Consent Orders