Planning, Zoning, and Land Use

Representative experience

Canary Wharf Group and Qatari Diar JV on high-profile redevelopment of the Shell Centre on the South Bank for a residential / office led mixed-use development.

Ballymore and Hammerson on the redevelopment of Bishopsgate Goodsyard, one of the largest undeveloped sites in central London.

London Legacy Development Corporation on the Legacy Communities Scheme in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Land Securities on various development projects, including New Ludgate, 1 New Street Square, 21 Moorfields, and the Kodak Site in Harrow.

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UK Planning top tips: certificates of lawfulness

24 June 2022

Certificates of lawfulness can serve a useful function when certainty is needed as to whether an existing or proposed use or operation is or would be lawful. What are the key issues?

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UK Supreme Court provides welcome clarity on the operation of the Telecoms Code

23 June 2022

In a long-awaited judgment handed down on 22 June 2022, the Supreme Court has addressed issues that have dogged telecoms operators and land owners since the revised Electronic...

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National Security and Investment Act: first Annual Report published

16 June 2022

The UK Government has published its first Annual Report on the functioning of the recently implemented National Security and Investment regime, which gives the Government the power to...

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The Right to Buy extension – third time lucky?

14 June 2022

In times of strife politicians like to have a sheaf of oven-ready policies in their back pocket in case they need a positive headline. It came as little surprise, then, when the Prime ...

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UK’s Vertical Agreement Block Exemption Order goes live - heralding a new age of vertical divergence?

14 June 2022

The UK’s new Vertical Agreement Block Exemption Order (VABEO), the long awaited replacement to the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER – which was retained in the UK under ...

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The digital future: UK land transactions and the metaverse

13 June 2022

Staking a claim over land is a concept that we are all familiar with, but what happens when “land” ceases to be physical land as we know it, or put simply when real estate...

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