Ward Hadaway
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Sandgate House |
Telephone: 0191 204 4000 |
Other offices in: Leeds |
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Email: andrew.moss@wardhadaway.com Website: www.wardhadaway.com |
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Ward Hadaway's Planning Services
Ward Hadaway boasts one of the largest planning teams in the North legal sector with a wide range of expertise and experience. In an innovative structure that clients have praised, the team combines both chartered town planners and planning lawyers, giving a broader spectrum of skills available to tackle all kinds of planning issues.
The team covers a broad range of work, demonstrated by the completion of numerous planning applications and planning appeals, including inquiries, during the past 12 months.
The team is highly ranked in Planning Magazine’s annual legal survey of the top planning law practices in the UK, ahead of many major London based law firms and above almost all competitors in the North.
Current clients include some of Britain’s biggest national housebuilders, national retail and leisure chains, commercial developers, regeneration projects, minerals and waste, large country estates and leading public sector organisations such as national NGOs, health trusts and local authorities.
Specialisms
Ward Hadaway can assist with the full range of planning issues that can affect your business or organisation, including planning applications in the urban and rural forum, appeals and advocacy, enforcement, development plans, village green issues, rights of way, Section 106 agreements, High Court challenges, certificates of lawfulness, planning contravention, regional, strategic and local plan input, inquiries and land acquisition.
Advocacy is undertaken on a wide range of planning and related matters by the in-house planning lawyers. Further expert advice is given in listed buildings, conservation area and re-use of agricultural buildings, compulsory purchase, wind farms, planning blight, retail development, Judicial Review, highway diversions and closures.