Derek Ching
Legal Director
+44 (0)118 952 7217
[email protected]
View Full ProfilePlanning is complex and continually evolving and strategic legal advice can help to anticipate and successfully overcome obstacles that a development project might meet.
Our Planning and infrastructure service helps clients secure planning permission for all types of commercial, residential and mixed use developments – ensuring consent is obtained on suitable terms and within a timescale that fits within the overall development programme.
We work predominantly for developers and landowners promoting land for (re)development with sites ranging from small properties intended for a single new dwelling to large developments with strategic significance for a local area.
Our team has a wealth of experience dealing with planning and infrastructure agreements ranging from simple undertakings to complex s106 agreements, providing for social housing and community infrastructure and facilities. We also advise on infrastructure agreements relating to highways and provision of utilities and services. We regularly act in relation to sites affected by the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area (SPA) and the particular challenges in securing permissions for these sites.
Since its introduction, we have kept Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) under close review and advise on the impact of draft / revised charging schedules. We also advise on CIL's impact on development and funding, including where planning processes extend beyond the date when CIL may become payable. We offer guidance on the correct procedure for claiming reliefs and the traps that can mean the benefits of exemption are lost. The impact of CIL is reflected in the contracts and options we negotiate.
Our wide-ranging planning and infrastructure expertise includes:
We work with developers and landowners on a wide variety of commercial, residential and mixed use property developments.
Relevant recent cases include:
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