The specialist team at Holmes & Hills understand that a new road project can have significant impacts on affected landowners, homeowners and business owners.
Travel by road is a part of day-to-day life enabling people to get “from A to B” whether to travel to/from work, see family, visit friends, undertake a weekly shop, see a doctor or for a plethora of other reasons. Road schemes can range from improving the capacity and robustness of existing connections, through to the creation of new roads to connect, or better connect, communities.
Road schemes can be delivered via planning permission but larger schemes will typically be delivered as a Development Consent Order (DCO) scheme. In each case it is typical for a highways scheme to include the use of compulsory purchase powers to acquire the land and/or title rights to deliver the project.
In addition to environmental, ecological, heritage and land-use impacts, road schemes can bring significant localised impacts; whether from the uncertainty a project may bring, the compulsory acquisition of land required for the new road or junction, or the disruption that the construction/delivery phase brings with it.
The specialist team here at Holmes & Hills can help you to understand the effect the development or road project will or may have on them and their property, providing proactive advice to protect our clients’ interests and legal rights.
We offer fixed-fee packages and will seek to recover our legal costs from the scheme promoter whenever possible. Learn more about our team and how we can support you.
We advise on all types of energy scheme. We advise affected landowners, homeowners and business owners and our experience includes the following schemes:
We have provided support and assistance with people whose property is to be compulsorily acquired or those whose attempts to move/sell their property are being negatively impacted by a road scheme. Where legal blight arises we seek to recover your reasonable costs from the acquiring authority (which may be National Highways or a County/Highways Authority).
If you are affected by a scheme and don’t know what to you, our specialist compulsory purchase order team can help you. The help we can provide depends on the stage of the scheme but we can offer a number of fixed fee packages to provide you with clear advice and at certain cost.
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