Our Planning and Environment team will get you from design to development and occupation.
Development, regeneration and infrastructure projects are becoming increasingly complex as market conditions change and legislation and case law develops. You need sophisticated and practical solutions to navigate this planning maze.
Our dedicated planning specialists work hard to deliver the highest quality service for our clients in line with their commercial objectives.
We provide tactical and strategic planning promotion through the Town and Country Planning regime, requiring Development Consent Orders (DCOs) or Transport and Works Act Orders (TWAOs).
Always working as one team with our clients, we give strategic advice on planning applications and viability, compulsory purchase and compensation, and the Community Infrastructure Levy. We apply robustness when helping to health check planning applications and environmental impact assessments, but also when we draft and negotiate planning and related infrastructure agreements. We also advise on implementation, modification and discharge of planning conditions, and obligations.
We help clients to prepare for and project manage major planning inquiries and examinations, as well as, give technical advice on highways, rights of way, and town and village green issues, on heritage issues including listed buildings/conservation area controls, on contaminated land and environmental regulatory issues, and on lawful development certificates.
If things go wrong, we'll also help you with appeal court proceedings, including judicial review and statutory appeals, advise you on protecting against and representation during planning enforcement action, and advocacy support at public inquires and hearings (including judicial review).
Our clients include commercial and residential developers and investors, investment funds, local authorities, lenders, landlords and tenants.
We support clients in an increasingly complex planning environment to navigate new legislation and draft regulations, including advising on the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act and Biodiversity Net Gain provisions.
