Ward Hadaway LLP

Planning

Partner

Robin specialises in planning, village green, highways and compulsory purchase work.

He represents a broad range of clients including residential and commercial developers, estates, public sector organisations and private individuals.

Robin is also an integral member of the property development team supporting colleagues on the planning aspects of development agreements including contracts, options and leases.

He is widely recognised as an expert in planning issues including regular advice on the interpretation of planning permissions, advice regarding certificates of lawful use, drafting and negotiation of Section 106 Agreements and other more general planning advice.

Robin also has a particular specialism in village green and highways matters (specifically public rights of way) and has advised numerous landowners/developers regarding their landholding and how best to seek to prevent applications arising for village green or modifications to the definitive map. He has acted for major house builders and major landowning estates in seeking to resist village green applications made over considerable areas of land with development potential, such matters often proceeding to inquiry and involving novel points of law.

Robin has also acted for a statutory utility in making a number of compulsory purchase orders along the Northumberland Coast and acted at an inquiry in seeking the confirmation of the orders, one of which involved the special parliamentary procedure.