OUR DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING TEAM
HOW WE CAN SUPPORT YOU
Our development team can help at every stage of the development process.
Our team of specialist development lawyers offer a wide range of expertise, technical skills and extensive experience in all types of development projects from instant to strategic land and for various end uses.
Our expert planning solicitors advise on all aspects of planning law through the development process from pre application advice to legal challenge.
Our clients in include developers, landowners, promoters, local authorities and registered providers of social housing. Our services include:
• Strategic land work including options, promotions, hybrid agreements and landowner collaboration agreements.
• Advice on all aspects of land acquisition. development and disposal including conditional and unconditional contracts, site assembly, overage and infrastructure/ utilities agreements.
• Conveyancing services for registered providers including shared ownership sales, staircasing transactions, outright plot sales, right-to-buy and right to acquire.
• All aspects of planning advice including:
o Planning and infrastructure agreements including Section 106 Agreements, unilateral undertakings, infrastructure agreements.
o Enforcement proceedings.
o Certificates of Lawfulness.
o Appeals and Judicial Review challenges.
o Community Infrastructure Levy advice.
o Compulsory Purchase advice.
OUR CREDENTIALS
SOME EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK…
We have a vast amount of experience across the team. Some recent examples that give an idea of the level of work we regularly undertake are:
• Issued judicial review proceedings against a Local Planning Authority. The case was of particular note because it was submitted outside the statutory six-week time limit and so we were required to apply for an extension of time.
• Advising a registered provider on a stopping up application concerning highway land which affected their ability to develop land pursuant to an obtained planning consent for residential development.
• Advising several landowners on the service of counter notices and blight notices in connection with land to be compulsorily purchased by HS2.
• Advised a top ranked university on a Section 106 Agreement and provided planning advice in relation to new Social Sciences Block.
• Advised a client in relation to a Section 215 TCPA 1990 notice in relation to two demolished barns relating to our client’s poultry operation.
• Negotiated and drafted a complex Section 106 Agreement and provided planning advice for a multi-million residential and hotel development.
• Acted for a land promoter in connection with a hybrid option and promotion agreement over green belt land comprising circa 90 acres between 5 separate freehold titles.
• Acting for a local authority in the Cotswolds AONB in its acquisition from a local sport club of freehold land and its sale of part of this land plus our client’s land to a housebuilder. The transaction will enable a residential development of circa 115 dwellings (including affordable housing), the relocation and redevelopment of new sports facilities and the establishment of a nature/wildlife reserve on gravel pits adjoining the residential development.
OUR CREDENTIALS
SOME EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK…
• Acted for the sellers on the freehold sale of a residential development site to a housebuilder purchaser for In excess of £10 Million. The transaction included the variation and release of an existing option agreement and a 50% deferred payment secured by a first ranking legal charge.
• Acting for the beneficiary of an existing overage agreement in relation to its variation by way of a very novel four way put and call option which will enable the party subject to the overage to enter into a land pool trust (“LPT”) with adjoining landowners and the LPT to then enter into a hybrid option and promotion agreement with a developer. over part of the site.
• Acted for a land promoter in connection with a series of interconnected agreements relating to strategic land comprising extinguishment of existing option, grant of new option, deed of variation to an existing easement, grant of new modern deed easement with delayed exercise date and a hybrid planning, promotion and option agreement.
• Acted for a registered provider on a conditional (on planning) site assembly project relating to a residential development site in the North West of England which will provide circa 150 affordable apartments.
MEET THE TEAM
Claire Waring
Partner
T: 01926 884641
E: claire.waring@wrighthassall.co.uk
Amanjot Sidhu
Solicitor
T: 01926 883073
E: amanjot.sidhu@wrighthassall.co.uk
Gurjit Bains
Senior Paralegal
T: 01926 884603
E: gurjit.bains@wrighthassall.co.uk
Rebecca Mushing
Senior Associate and Head of Planning
T: 01926 883076
E: rebecca.mushing@wrighthassall.co.uk
Gemma McIntyre
Solicitor
T: 01926 883048
E: gemma.macintyre@wrighthassall.co.uk
Cheryl Payne
Associate
T: 01926 883038
E: cheryl.payne@wrighthassall.co.uk
Louisa De Silva
Paralegal
T: 01926 880790
E: louisa.desilva@wrighthassall.co.uk
Ruth Harries
Senior Paralegal
T: 01926 880710
E: ruth.harries@wrighthassall.co.uk
MEET THE TEAM
Taran Sunner
Trainee Solicitor
T: 01926 883042
E: taran.sunner@wrighthassall.co.uk
Melanie Mason
Plots Team Manager
T: 01926 880742
E: melanie.mason@wrighthassall.co.uk