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CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

MITRE HOUSE, 160 ALDERSGATE STREET, LONDON, EC1A 4DD, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7367 3000
Fax:
Fax 020 7367 2000
DX:
135316 BARBICAN 2
Web:
www.cms-cmck.com
Email:

Mark Heighton

Tel:
Work +44 20 7367 3000
Email:
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

Work Department

Real estate.

Position

Partner dealing with the full range of commercial property and residential development transactions: experience includes acting for tenants, developers and funds on new commercial and residential developments; institutions on forward funding and forward sales/purchase commitments; advising landlords and tenants of all types of commercial property; sales and purchases of investment properties and portfolios; joint venture arrangements and the property aspects of corporate mergers and acquisitions.

Career

Articled TG Baynes & Sons, Kent; qualified 1988; assistant solicitor McKenna & Co, 1988-95; partner 1995; author of numerous articles relating to property transactions for various journals/publications including ‘Estates Gazette’, ‘Property Week’ and ‘Retail Week’; regular speaker on property issues at external and internal conferences and seminars.

Member

Law Society; British Council of Shopping Centres; International Council of Shopping Centres; Leisure Property Forum.

Education

Dartford Grammar School; Sheffield University (LLB); City of London Polytechnic (MA).

Leisure

Walking, gardening, DIY.

Practice Areas

Property - commercial property; Property - residential

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Legal Developments by:
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

  • Access to justice: protective costs orders in planning challenges

    Third parties and competing developers have no rights of appeal to the Secretary of State against planning decisions. Disappointed applicants can appeal to the Secretary of State and can have the merits of the application reconsidered. The only remedy available to a disappointed third party is a challenge by way of judicial review in the High Court on a point of law. The sense of frustration and disempowerment this creates has not been helped by the increasing complexity of the planning process and the use of consultation to legitimise decisions that many perceive may already have been taken.
    - CMS Group

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