Local Government - experience
- advice to the County Council on a planning agreement to provide new schools, highways infrastructure, children centre facilities, new library, railway station, bus subsidies and youth service provision in respect of a new settlement east of Exeter;
- partnering issues for regeneration of central Taunton; procurement of a development partner through the competitive dialogue; land assembly and compulsory purchase;
- all non-routine litigation for the London Borough of Wandsworth;
- prosecuting offences in relation to the misuse of the disabled persons blue badge scheme on behalf of a London authority which is pre-eminent in this area of parking enforcement;
- collective agreement on single status and related equal pay issues for a county council - significant support was given to the council during its time critical negotiations with Trade Unions. We were involved in drafting revisions to the agreement, advising on negotiating strategy, and the handling of Equal Pay grievances;
- promoting various rights of way cases for Nottinghamshire County Council to secure confirmation of diversions and modifications to definitive map;
- undertaking voluntary first registration of title for a South West city council;
- processing many traffic regulation orders for a South West county council;
- licensing committee attendance and appeals for a London Borough;
- advising on the outsourcing of facilities for a unitary authority;
- empty properties compulsory purchase orders for a district council;
- routine and complex section 106 agreements for several district councils;
- disposal of surplus properties for East Midlands County Council;
- standards investigations for various local authorities;
- advising on land assembly, planning, compulsory purchase order, landowners agreement and development agreement in respect of St Austell town centre regeneration;
- child care work for a unitary city council; and
- advising a district council on a tariff regime for adoption as part of its section 106 requirements.
