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Secretary of State agrees with Gateley Hamer’s objection to DCO
DCOs are rarely refused, and yet Aquind’s proposal to install an interconnector under the English Channel has been refused by the Secretary of State. Read why here.
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Government support for an important compulsory purchase reform
We provide details of the Government's recently published National Infrastructure Strategy which sets out plans to transform UK infrastructure in order to level up …
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31 December 2020: deadline looms for extending certain planning permissions
We outline what developers need to do to avoid missing the impending deadline for extending certain planning permissions, which was granted under the Business and P…
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Advising on Cleve Hill, the first solar park delivered by DCO
The team supported the Cleve Hill project, Cleve Hill is to be the UK’s largest solar farm and the first delivered by DCO. Set to produce in excess of 350 MW of ele…
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Supporting Highways England on the A38 Derby Junctions DCO
Supporting Highways England on the A38 Derby Junctions Development Consent Order. The team’s expertise assisted the project’s navigation through examination, even w…
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The demand for compulsory purchase experts post COVID-19
As UK plc rebuilds from the COVID crisis, will compulsory purchase experts be as in-demand as bikes, home offices and hand sanitiser?
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What are the implications of overhead diversions?
As more development is being carried out on Greenfield sites on the peripheries of urban centres, electricity lines are encountered frequently by developers. We con…