Recent Experience:

• Advising a number of national house builders and G15 housing associations on significant regeneration schemes with respect to their rights of light risk mitigation strategy which includes:
  1. Strategic advice based on the risks presented by each scheme;
  2. Negotiating rights of light insurance policies;
  3. Dealing with and negotiating rights of light releases; and
  4. Dealing with rights of light claims.
• Advised on and arranged the successful service of c. 3,000 light obstruction notices to protect future development against rights of light claims.
• Successfully represented a developer in a village green inquiry, securing a positive outcome and enabling the proposed development to proceed.
• Advising landowners on easements, landowner statements and defending public footpath applications across land to be developed in the future.
• Advising landowners next to developments on their rights and negotiating neighbourly matters agreements on large scale developments.
• Advising clients on New Homes Ombudsman claims and strategy for seeking to reduce claims.
• Experience in advising clients on more unusual property issues such as bona vacantia, adverse possession claims and ad medium filum.