Specialist planning solicitors advising in property, land and business owners regarding Blight, Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) and Development Consent Orders (DCO) claims.
Holmes & Hills Solicitors works in partnership with and represents individual homeowners, land owners and business owners across the country whose interests are affected, or potentially affected, by public sector development and infrastructure projects.
Holmes & Hills' specialist team advises clients as to the powers of statutory authorities to compulsory purchase land, the procedures and rules for exercising these powers and the rules for determining the compensation payable. We regularly advise and represent clients in successfully challenging Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPOs) and Development Consent Orders (DCOs).
We ensure that our clients understand the effect the development or infrastructure project will or may have on them and their property, providing proactive advice to protect our clients’ proprietary interests and legal rights.
Our specialist team can help you to understand your legal rights and remedies, with appropriate advice and action to ensure that the scheme does not unlawfully or unfairly prejudice you, your property and your financial interests. We aim to deliver the best advice, the best service and the best outcomes for every client whilst seeking the best outcome permissible by law.
We can proactively manage all steps of the procedure, from reviewing initial notices, making representations, serving blight notices, seeking discretionary purchase, settling statutory compensation claims to formal legal challenge (High Court and Valuation Tribunal).
Where there is a legal entitlement to reimbursement of your legal costs we will claim these on your behalf, striving at all times to make our involvement cost-neutral where we can.
In many cases our solicitors can be instructed on a fixed-fee basis, providing certainty of specialist advice but at a fixed cost. Please contact us for further information about fee structures using this form.
Our solicitors are members of the Compulsory Purchase Association and National Infrastructure Projects Association, and are also recognised in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 for their expertise in large schemes of this type.
The team at Holmes & Hills works in partnership with clients, providing strategic advice that from the outset is aimed at achieving the best possible outcome for the client, with consideration for the client's objectives. Most often, achieving the optimum outcome means securing the most favourable financial settlement possible from the acquiring authority, alongside other conditions of negotiation, such as timescales and scope of rights over land to be granted to an authority, or impinged.
Holmes & Hills' experienced team is able to advise property, land and business premises owners on:
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In representing clients in preparing, serving, negotiating and settling Blight, Compulsory Purchase and Development Consent claims, Holmes & Hills is pleased to be able to say that in numerous instances, we have successfully argued for and recovered 100% of the client's legal and professional costs from the acquiring authority. In such situations, any interim bill payments made to Holmes & Hills during the course of the matter are repaid as part of the settlement and no payments are required to be paid by the client at the successful conclusion of the case.
In representing clients our Planning Law solicitors will always seek to maximise the value of the financial settlement achieved under the statutory regime, including recovery of costs incurred in achieving the settlement.
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