Introduction
Property law is vast in the breadth of services it covers. From the needs of the private individual to the largest corporate transactions and projects, Ashfords has a full service team to meet all of your needs. Clients need lawyers with the technical expertise and practical approach to meet the demands of this modern commercial property world and its business requirements. Our team represents a formidable power-house in the South West with the expertise and capacity to handle even the largest and most complex transactions across all sectors of the property industry.
Our Services
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- Local Government
Attendance at committees | Charities | Commercial property advice | Compulsory purchase and compensation | Construction | Data Protection and Freedom of Information | Debt recovery | Education law | Employment | Environmental health advice | Highways | Homelessness | Housing law advice | Judicial review | Licensing | Monitoring officer support | Partnering and joint working | Planning | Private bills | Projects and PFI | Regeneration | Rights of way | Section 106 agreements | Standards complaints and investigations | State aid | Town and village green applications | Traffic regulation orders | Training for elected members and officers
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- Planning
Negotiating of planning applications | Environmental impact assessment | Planning obligations/section 106 agreements | Affordable housing | Enforcement issues | Lawful use applications and appeals | Planning appeals, including written representations, hearings and advocacy at public inquiries | Local development framework representations | Discontinuance and modification orders | Judicial reviews and high court challenges | Highways law | Section 38 and 278 Highways Act agreements | Footpath modifications and diversions | Water and drainage law | Listed buildings law | Conservation law | Commons, town and village greens | Traffic regulation orders
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- Projects / PFI
Procurement | Finance | Commercial Contracts including project agreements, sub contracts, interface agreements | Creation of SPVs | State Aid and EU Competition | Public sector governance | Employment and Pensions | Corporate | Construction | Planning | Property | Banking
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- Property Development
Site assembly | Planning | Construction | Estate/disposal strategy and implementation
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- Property Litigation
Advice on leases/tenancy and associated documentation | Boundary disputes | Contested lease renewals | Contested Planning and Development issues | Contested rent review actions | Contractual/Development disputes | Defending unlawful eviction claims | Dilapidations/Disrepair issues/claims | Easements/Rights of Light Issues | Enforcement actions for secured lenders (mortgagees) | Enforcement of Options/Conditional Contracts | Landlord/tenant insolvency | Lands Tribunal Applications | Leasehold Enfranchisement | Leasehold Valuation Tribunal issues/applications | Local Authority Disrepair Notices | Mediation | Occupiers Liability issues | Possession proceedings | Rent and service charge disputes | Restrictive Covenants | Specific performance applications /injunctions | Telecommunications Act Issues | Trespass claims | Undue Influence
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- Public Funded Property
The acquisition and disposal of freehold and leasehold property | The granting and leasing of property | All property management issues | Property aspects of development
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- Residential Property
Residential Property - sale and purchase | Home Information Packs | Plots - sale and purchase | New Build Properties - sale and purchase | Shared Ownership Properties - sale and purchase | Land - sale and purchase Farms - sale and purchase | Spanish Property - sale and purchase | Equestrian - sale and purchase | Buying a property with a Partner/Family member/ Friend | Buying to let | Transfer of Equity - re mortgage | Equity Release | Conveyancing in Insolvency situations | Conveyancing in Matrimonial situations.
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Social Housing
Tenant Management | Injunctions, including anti-social behaviour injunctions and gas safety injunctions | Possession proceedings | Homeless reviews | Anti Social Behaviour Orders | Debt recovery | Disrepair claims | Trespass claims | Advice on tenancy agreements | Abandoned goods | Rent Review Notices and Procedures | Property Work | Site acquisitions and sales | Right to Buy | Lease renewals | Planning and Development issues including Section 106 agreements | Construction contracts/warranties/bonds/partnering structures | Leasehold enfranchisement | Land Tribunal Applications | Service Charge Disputes | Leasehold Valuation Tribunal issues/applications | Mediation | Occupiers Liability issues | Advice on asbestos | Disability Discrimination Act advice | Adjudication | Advice on Beacon Status/achieving the Decent Homes standard | Easements and restrictive covenants | Banking, Finance and Corporate | Employment
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- Spanish Property
Contract Check/Property Report | Power of Attorney | NIE Application | Administration of a Spanish Estate | Spanish Property Litigation Matters