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Environment and Planning |
Telephone: 01622 690691 |
Email: leemay@brachers.co.uk Website: www.brachers.co.uk |
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Lee May is a planning specialist and has over 10 years experience in planning and environmental law.
Henry Abraham has over twenty years experience of planning and environmental law. He acted in the House of Lords case of Sage v SSETR and Maidstone Borough Council.
Work undertaken
Planning Applications, Appeals, High Court challenges, s.106 Planning Obligations, Highways Act Agreements, Magistrates’ Court/Crown Court proceedings, compulsory purchase, agricultural occupancy conditions, certificates of lawful development, proceedings before Lands Tribunal, Article 4 Directions, Highways, Rights of Way, Environmental Issues, Nuisance Notices (odour, noise, pests etc), Environmental Permit Applications/Appeals, Building Regulations, Environmental Permit Applications, Environmental offences (pollution, noise, odour etc), Data Protection, Freedom of Information, Housing an Commercial Developments (including hospitals and care homes), Regeneration Schemes.
Some examples include:
- Acting for a major waste transfer site operator and producer of RDF on a prosecution for environmental permit breaches.
- Acting for a number of farmers relating to contentious issues regarding use of polytunnels.
- Acting for a large landowner in judicial review proceedings relating to Environment Agency policy on coastal protection affecting flooding/erosion issues on client’s lane.
- Acting in Land Tribunal proceedings regarding compensation claim for light transit scheme taking client’s land which otherwise would have been suitable for housing.
- Acting for landowner in relation to a planning appeal for construction and use of fishing lakes involving potentially EIA development.
- Acting for an NHS Trust in preparing a s106 agreement for major redevelopment of hospital site.