This area impacts on everyone but is rarely recognised until something goes wrong. We recognise the importance of providing practical and timely advice on all aspects of planning and highways law taking into account the different duties and responsibilities of our clients.
Planning
The lawyers who will provide you with services can offer advice which spans the full breadth of planning matters, from advice on development schemes and proposals to all aspects of planning legislation. Their mix of private and public sector experience ensures we can navigate our way through issues such as compulsory purchase schemes.
We offer a comprehensive service in all aspects of planning, including:
- conduct of planning appeals and inquiries
- planning and highway agreements
- enforcement
- waste management mining and minerals
- listed buildings and conservation areas
- alternative energy generation and storage
- coastal protection, flooding and environmental issues
- trees and hedge issues including high hedges, protected hedge legal issues, preservation orders and dangerous tree notices
- article 4 directions
- judicial reviews
Highways
It takes a keen knowledge of historical detail, combined with a solid understanding of legal principles, to advise on matters arising on highways and byways. Cases relating to public rights of way including highways agreements, orders and enforcement can present themselves in a variety of circumstances, often linked to planning decisions.
The lawyers who will provide you with services can offer a comprehensive service in all aspects of highways work including:
- highways schemes
- compulsory purchase orders
- side road orders
- public rights of way including definitive map modification orders and legal event orders
- conduct of public rights of way public inquiries and public hearings
- highways stopping orders including advocacy in the magistrates court
- Highway Act 1980 agreements including section 38 and section 278 and dedication agreements
- planning agreements where section 106 planning obligations involve highway contributions or mineral applications
- obstructions and encroachments of the highway
- tree and hedge issues
- enforcement
- easements
- registration at Land Registry of highway land
- historical archive research
- land tribunals or Land Registry adjudication cases
- village greens
