Our firm advises on all aspects of the town and country planning system, compulsory purchase and appropriation, highways, building regulations, affordable housing, judicial review, environment and energy law

Our clients include property developers, small and large property companies, landowners, local authorities, investors, charities and housing associations

Our lawyers have extensive experience working in both the private and public sectors and are ready to utilise this experience to assist you

We are a specialist planning & development law firm based in London in the United Kingdom

Planning

• Section 106 legal agreements• Planning appeals & public inquiries• Community Infrastructure Levy• Permitted development rights• Listed buildings & conservation areas• Neighbourhood plans• Strategic planning advice • Planning due diligence for property

transactions• Planning applications & certificates of

lawfulness• Tree preservation orders• Planning enforcement• Advertisement consents• Assets of community value

Our servicesWe can help you with the following matters:

Highways & infrastructure

• Highways stopping up & diversion orders• S278 & S38 highways legal agreements • Oversailing licences for buildings & bridges • Legal agreements for adoption of sewers

Judicial review

• Reviewing planning applications for risk of judicial review

• Defending claims challenging the grant of planning permission

• Bringing claims against public authority decisions on infrastructure (e.g. airports)

Housing

• Affordable housing provision & review mechanisms

• Agreements between developers and registered providers for the transfer of affordable housing

• Legal advice on affordable housing policy

Building Regulations

• Building Regulations approval• Enforcement action

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Compulsory purchase & appropriation

• Compulsory Purchase Orders• Appropriation & overriding 3rd party land

rights

Environment & energy

• Environmental impact assessments• Contaminated land & remediation• Threatened species & noxious plants• Waste management licences• Environmental nuisances & offences• Wind farms & solar energy development

Chad Sutton

Managing Director

t +44 (0)20 3196 5253

e chad@planningclaritylegal.co.uk

Chad is a member of the Law Society’s Planning and Environmental Law Committee and a Legal Associate Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute

Chad has been quoted in the UK Legal 500 as a ‘hard-worker’, someone who ‘looks for practical solutions to problems’ and who ‘acts with tremendous speed and accuracy’. He has also appeared as a planning expert on BBC London News

Chad has 15 years experience in the private and public sectors advising developers, housing associations and local authorities on legal issues associated with development, providing him with a comprehensive understanding of the delivery of development from all sides of the equation

Chad advises on all types of development, whether it be residential, commercial or mixed use development, including housing, student accommodation, retail parks, care homes, offices, warehouses, hotels, bars & restaurants, regeneration, infrastructure and renewable energy projects

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Contact us

If we can assist you or you require any further information please contact:

@chad_pclegal

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