case studies

Examples of recent matters handled by members of our team include:

• advocacy at planning inquiries involving Westminster City Council, Winchester City Council, Camden Council, St Albans District Council and Hounslow Borough Council
• appearing at a public inquiry on behalf of a major housebuilder following a refusal of planning and listed building consent applications.
• successfully prosecuting a developer who had carried out the wholesale removal of the historic fabric of a pair of Grade II* listed buildings on behalf of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
• dealing with planning applications for a change of use of a bank to a restaurant, of a bank to amusement arcade and of a car show room to a builders merchant
• High Court proceedings relating to caravan sites in Hampshire and Berkshire and a golf club in the green belt in Essex
• acting on the redevelopment of a 28-acre former airfield site for business uses
• obtaining planning permission for 10,000 sqm of multiple business uses in the strategic gap in Fareham
• acting for a group of residents in Oxfordshire successfully objecting to a sand and gravel extraction application
• acting for an airport authority in overturning a planning decision effecting an airport runway in Hampshire
• successfully acting on a complex listed building and compulsory purchase matter in Hampshire
• negotiating and completing s106 Agreements on major sites in Hammersmith, Hounslow and High Wycombe
• negotiating planning permission in Hertfordshire for a major housebuilder
• leading a team in the reported case of Valenthe -v- S. of S. overturning a decision to refuse planning permission for a golf club and hotel development in the Essex Green Belt
• applications for external seating for a major pub group
• successfully appealing against the decision of Westminster City Council to refuse listed building consent and planning permission for internal works to a Grade II listed building
• successfully appealing on behalf of a developer against the decision of Hounslow Borough Council to refuse permission for the demolition of a commercial garage and its replacement with residential development