Town and Country Planning
We advise on all aspects of town and country planning including land and building use, roads and infrastructure, planning inquiries, compulsory purchase and land compensation matters.
Highways Law
All aspects of planning law relating to highways and infrastructure agreements and licences, Road Traffic Regulation matters, Public Rights of Way and advice and guidance on road closures to facilitate schemes.
Environmental Law
We have extensive experience of advising both private companies and the public sector of their obligations under environmental legislation.
Fixed Price Packages
We offer a range of services at a fixed price, making the budgeting of your legal work easy, affordable and certainty of costs.
How we can help you with costs
- fixed fees for Housing Associations and public sector;
- Protective cost orders, to protect and limit any cost award against you as a result of any litigation;
- CFA, higher/lower fee depending of circumstances;
What our clients say...
"we very much appreciate all the help, advice and support you give us – it is definitely value for money!
Patricia Everett at Bromsgrove District Council
"Thank you for your help in sorting out the problems, I felt you quite quickly picked up on the issues we are facing, it was a pleasure to meet you"
"...your advice on this topic was very helpful and exactly what we needed. ...we look forward to working with you and your firm in the future." Clare Tamea, Severnside Housing.
"The response time to queries was excellent, the lawyers involved in this project crtainly went the extra mile by staying late to get the issue resolved".
"The service provided by Pritpal and Rebecca was excellent"
Chambers UK 2010
This environment team's expertise includes advising on environmental liability and contaminated land issues. It has recently advised private landowners on proposed sewer diversion works, in connection with flood alleviation works, and acted for a sewage authority in respect of its statutory role under land drainage legislation. The team also acted for a drainage authority on issues of drainage relating to flooding, and advised a local authority on a prosecution alleging a breach of hedgerow regulations.
Recent successes include:
- Tripartite arrangement between three Local Authorities to deliver infrastructure benefits for the Longbridge site;
- High Court challenge quashing part of Warrington Borough Council's local plan, resulting in a groundbreaking decision regarding the relevance of the Structure Plan when formulating Green Belt policy;
- Quashing employment policies in Tamworth Borough Council's local plan;
- Successful negotiation of compensation for business extinguishment pending CPO action for Drinks etc. Ltd.;
And currently:
- We have a case pending in the High Court on what constitutes "substantial completion" of a development; clarification of the House of Lords case Sage -v- Secretary of State for DETR.
For a no-obligation chat about how we can help you with your planning and environmental matters, please contact
Pritpal Singh Swarn.
