Planning and Regeneration

• Achieving planning consents (two planning authorities) coupled with complex infrastructure agreements for Sun Microsystems' European HQ, involving a new 500,000 sq ft office campus development on MOD land in Hampshire.
• Successful defence of first ever judicial review action against the exercise of the new Mayor of London's planning powers.
• Advising on the legal agreement for a 300 residential unit mixed use scheme adjacent to Kew Bridge in the London Borough of Hounslow including negotiating the drafting for the first discount market sale units in the borough.
• Achieving planning consent for London and Quadrant Housing Trust's scheme for the wholesale residential led redevelopment of the Kingsland Basin in the London Borough of Hackney involving infrastructure agreements to achieve the highest standards of public realm.
• Working with leading architects MAKE on the potential for two 50 storey towers with up to 70,000 sq.m of mixed use space on two sites adjacent to Marsh Wall on the Isle of Dogs.
• Achieving planning consent for Albany and Galliard Homes’ new mixed use scheme on the Finchley Road in North London. This consent was achieved on appeal and the inspector turned down the London Borough of Barnet’s arguments that it was an overdevelopment of the site.
• Achieving planning consent for a residential conversion of a locally listed Convent in North London, involving the quashing of the Council's decision to designate the site a conservation area, whilst also lodging a novel compensation claim against the Council under the Listed Building legislation. The site has been acquired by Berkeley Homes.

If you wish to discuss whether we may be able to assist with your project, please contact Daniel Drukarz.