Planning

The culture of planning is evolving as planners are asked to look at broader ranges of social, environmental and financial issues used alongside the day-to-day diet of land use matters. The importance of public law is also growing. Public authorities are being asked to act as social entrepreneurs and as facilitators of development raising serious public law power issues, as well as the more standard procurement concerns.

The Denton Wilde Sapte approach is to lead the field, helping to change both the law and best practice, and working to deliver high quality schemes. Our team continues to work on high profile initiatives for clients in both the public and private sector.

For example:

• On urban regeneration and mixed use schemes, we lead in developing new frameworks such as tariff-based obligation systems, to bring forward proposals for sub-regional areas, as well as implementing the solutions locally on site-by-site applications
• On new settlements and urban extensions we are advising on the delivery of some 150,000 homes across the country
• We are at the forefront of regeneration through our work for current Urban Development Corporations
• Working on retail development: new stores, extensions and refurbishments, new and refurbished shopping centres, and with clients where proposals act as a catalyst for mixed use developments and community renewal schemes
• On compulsory purchase orders, we are acting on both public and private sector promoted schemes, negotiating away objections to ease through developer-led CPOs, as well as on local authority-led schemes assisting on regenerating their own areas
• On public law issues we are leading on partnership arrangements being put in place to procure new highway and transport infrastructure and on the associated procurement work
• On tall buildings, particularly in London, for example Fenchurch Street and Park Street, acting for private and public sector clients and considering all aspects of protected views, visual and townscape impacts, and the requirement and implications of maximising the potential of a development site
• Judicial review work in the courts, including the High Court and Court of Appeal, for challenges to planning permissions and environmental assessments, as well as Magistrates' Courts for stopping up orders.

Partner Contacts

Stephen Ashworth
T +44 (0)207 320 6134
stephen.ashworth@dentonwildesapte.com

David Cox
T +44 (0)207 320 6575
david.cox@dentonwildesapte.com

Emma White
T +44 (0)207 320 6180
emma.white@dentonwildesapte.com