Whether you’re considering planning issues for the first time or an old hand, you’d be hard pressed to find a more complex system to work your way through. 

Frequent policy revisions, increasingly important environmental concerns and the more recent ‘Localism’ agenda can all contribute to confusion – and potential conflict.

As specialist planning lawyers our role varies according to your requirements – from facilitating the delivery of development projects to protecting the environment. The areas we can help you with include:

• general and strategic planning and environmental advice
• Section 106 agreements
• Call In inquiries and planning and enforcement appeals
• site assembly including Compulsory Purchase Orders
• Certificates of Lawful Development
• advice on listed buildings and conservation areas
• representations for allocations in LDFs
• High Court challenges, statutory appeals and judicial review
• Highways Agreements
  

Common sense suggests that the sooner we get involved, the smoother the planning process, the better the outcome.  Clearly, that’s not always possible.

If you find yourself facing – or bringing – a challenge, you can call on our experience of inquiries, appeals and judicial reviews to help manage and resolve disputes and get you back on track.

Whether it’s strategic advice on securing planning permission, implementing a scheme or a compulsory purchase order, our ability to advise on all areas of planning law, and to draw on the expertise of colleagues in associated fields, means that we’re well placed to act as project managers.

Please contact Francesca de Vita for more information.