Property
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
- Agriculture
Farming Contract disputes | Farming Partnerships | Agricultural Tenancies | Notices to Quit | Succession | Agricultural Land Tribunal | Arbitrations | Quota and Single Payment Issues | Animal Health | Contract Farming | Share Farming | Farm Sales and Purchases | Prosecutions / Defence | Boundary | Covenant and Easement Issues....................................................................................................................................................................
- Compulsory Purchase
Drafting, making, submission and promotion of compulsory purchase orders | Advice on land compensation issues | CPO indemnity agreements | Lands Tribunal references | Making general vesting declarations | Advice on statutory wayleaves | Certificates of alternative development | Objecting to compulsory purchase orders
.................................................................................................................................................................... - Construction
Adjudication | Arbitration | Building Contracts | Civil Engineering Contracts | CITB Training Levy | Advice on property aspects of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 | Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2002 | Collateral Warranties | Consultants' Appointments | Contractual Disputes | Dispute avoidance and resolution | Funding agreements | Health & Safety | Litigation including proceedings in the Technology & Construction Court and Court of Appeal | Mediation and alternative dispute resolution | Novations | Parent Company Guarantees | Partnering Contracts including PPC 2000, NEC | Performance Bonds | PFI advice | Professional Negligence | Renewable Energy | Sub-contract agreements
.................................................................................................................................................................... - Environment
Advice on IPPC/PPC applications and appeals | Advice on environmental impact assessments | Habitats advice | Contaminated land | Noise notices | Waste regulation and permitting | Discharge and abstraction licences and offences | Sewers and drains | Prosecutions
.................................................................................................................................................................... - Investment
Portfolio and individual property acquisitions and disposals | Asset management | Tax issues | Property support for corporate led transactions
.................................................................................................................................................................... - Landlord and Tenant & Property Management
Granting of leases | Advice regarding assignments and underlettings | Advice on rent reviews | Advice on service charges | Lease renewals
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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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- Conveyancing
Sale of property, houses, flats, land and farms – both Leasehold and Freehold | Purchase of property, houses, flats, land and farms – both Leasehold and Freehold | Transfer of property | Shared ownership purchases | New builds | Plot sales / purchases | Buying for investment
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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
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