Environment
Stevens & Bolton is one of the few law firms in the south with specialist environmental expertise.
Our environment team is listed as a leading practice by Chambers UK and The Legal 500.
We regularly advise clients on:
- Environmental, climate change and health & safety issues in:
- share and asset transactions, including the environmental, climate change and health & safety aspects of a share transaction of over £1.1bn; and
- property transactions
- Environmental compliance issues arising from commercial contracts including advice to commercial occupiers in relation to remediation issues
- Regulatory and liability matters relating to:
- contaminated land and other environmental liability issues
- waste issues including alleged breaches of waste management licences, and negotiating on behalf of clients with the Environment Agency
- statutory nuisances
- Asbestos liabilities
- Environmental provisions in insurance policies
- Environmental claims
Additionally, our environmental consultant Valerie Fogleman is leading a team with other members of a consortium in a project for the European Commission on financial security under the Environmental Liability Directive.
Planning
We work closely with a specialist planning law firm to provide advice in relation to planning law matters including:
- Development advice
- Strategic planning law advice
- Legal audit of planning applications
- Section 106 and other planning agreements
- Contentious and examinations
- Planning appeals, call-ins, inquiries, hearings, written representations
- Local plan examinations
- Judicial review and legal challenges
- Highways
- Highways law, highway licences, agreements
- Stopping up orders
- Compulsory purchase and compensation law
- Regulatory
- Community Infrastructure Levy
- Environmental impact assessment and related EU legislation
- Certificates of lawfulness
- Rights of light and appropriation of land for planning purposes
- Heritage law
- Ratings
- Check, Challenge, Appeal – procedure and supporting evidence
- Valuation Tribunal and Upper Tribunal appeals
- Rates mitigation (e.g. charity relief and guardian schemes)
