Our experience also covers compulsory purchase and appropriation, highways, environment and energy matters, building regulations, affordable housing and judicial review.

It provides a comprehensive service to clients, providing pragmatic and commercial advice on both contentious and non-contentious aspects of these areas of law.

We advise on a range of issues including:

• Section 106 legal agreements
• The Community Infrastructure Levy
• Planning appeals and public inquiries
• Compulsory purchase and appropriation
• Affordable housing
• Listed building and conservation area matters
• Planning policy, including the National Planning Policy Framework and Neighbourhood Plans
• Strategic planning advice in the context of commercial property transactions
• Planning applications and applications for certificates of lawful existing or proposed use and development
• Planning enforcement
• Tree preservation orders
• Advertisement consents
• Judicial review claims against the grant of planning permission
• Building regulations
• Highways stopping up and diversion orders
• Highways agreements under Section 278 and Section 38 of the Highways Act 1980