Planning
Our Planning Team is experienced in advising in connection with contentious and non-contentious planning matters which are relevant to education providers.
- Negotiation of planning applications;
- Environmental impact assessment;
- Planning obligations/section 106 agreements (e.g. restrictions on pupil numbers);
- Enforcement;
- Lawful use applications and appeals;
- Planning appeals, including hearings and advocacy at public inquiries;
- Local development framework representations;
- Discontinuance and modification orders;
- Judicial reviews and high court challenges and injunctions;
- Section 38 and 278 Highways Act agreements;
- Footpath modifications and diversions;
- Listed buildings law;
- Conservation law and commons, town and village greens; and
- Agricultural occupancy conditions.
As our Team includes several former local authority in house solicitors, we are also well placed to advise our education clients where they wish to respond to development proposals.
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- Planning
- Projects and PFI/BSF
- Property Litigation
- Restructuring and Insolvency
