Aardvark specialises in planning law and environmental law.
Our areas of work include legal issues arising from:
All types of planning applications
Planning agreements
Community infrastructure levy
Permitted development
Heritage
Highways
Compulsory acquisition
Environmental assessment
Appeals
Public inquiries
Enforcement
Judicial review
Planning and restrictive covenant insurance
Village greens
Rights of light
Climate change
Contaminated land
Waste
Appointing environmental consultants
Reliance letters
Environmental insurance
Environmental warranties and indemnities in transactions
Sector focus
Aardvark works on projects large and small for a range of landowners and developers including quoted companies, private companies, funds, venture capital backed enterprises and private individuals.
Public sector
Aardvark works for public sector clients where our particular expertise and focus on outcomes is required.
Hot topics
Viability and affordable housing.
Compulsory purchase threat.
Use of Freedom of Information in planning.
CIL and s106 double dipping.
Planning ransoms arising from poor property due diligence.
Local Plan and Area Action Plan evidence issues.
Judicial review by NIMBYs and competing developers.
Office to residential and other permitted development.
Heritage and other types of enabling development.
Senior living and C2/C3 use.
Delay in the planning system including discharge of conditions and highways agreements.
SANGs.
Green belt.
Planning reform.
Examples of our recent work
5,000 residential unit urban extension in Kent.
3,800 residential unit urban extension in Hampshire on former MOD land (acting for the planning authority).
Town centre regeneration with 2800 residential units and major employment uses.
Regeneration scheme with 1760 dwellings and commercial development.
1,200 residential unit urban extension in Surrey on former MOD land (acting for the planning authority).
Mixed use developments in Stratford, Bromley-by-Bow, Wandsworth and Willesden.
Judicial review of neighbouring scheme for residential developer.
SANG planning obligations and commercial SANG transactions
Development proposals and enforcement in the green belt
8 senior living schemes.
Student housing schemes in London, Hampshire and Newcastle.
Residential schemes in Southgate, Enfield, Green Lanes, Vauxhall, Islington and Tower Hamlets.
Office scheme in Hammersmith.
East London performance venue.
Large logistics sheds.
Advice on community infrastructure levy.
Enabling development for a community stadium (acting for the planning authority).
Successful defence of judicial review.
Promoting sites through local plan review.
Public inquiry into relief road CPO proposals.
Multiple office to residential permitted development schemes.
Environmental advice for the disposal of a factory.
Heritage enforcement and development matters.