We provide a comprehensive service of planning appraisals, planning consent negotiation, drafting of planning agreements and advocacy at appeals, and representations at Local Plan Inquiries, as well as judicial review and s.288 High Court challenges.
The Planning unit has experience in over 600 applications and appeals. The firm sat on the London Development Partnership which advised on a proposed regeneration stategy for a Regional Development Agency. The firm is the Planning Adviser to the Westminster Licensees Association and advises the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers.
Some examples of work are:
- The Heathrow Terminal 5 Public Inquiry
- The London International Freight Exchange Inquiry
- Convenience store applications and appeals
- Advice on chemical incinerator application
- Leisure applications and appeals
- Office and Industrial applications
- Successful negotiations and appeals for commercial and residential developments in green belt
- Extensively acting for restaurants and bar operators
- Acts as preferred adviser on the planning heritage issues to Ecclesiastical Insurance Plc
- Various s.288 challenges and judicial reviews, including one recent successful judicial review against Westminster City Council which had granted a planning consent to Derwent Valley Central Ltd