Haroon Khan

Haroon has experience in all aspects of planning, and has acted several of major schemes, including various residential and residential-led developments, and retail and industrial developments.

He has acted for both residential (including national, regional and SME housebuilders) and commercial developers on projects of all shapes and sizes across the UK, as well as for local authorities and development corporations, higher education institutions, landowners and promoters.

His expertise spans planning due diligence (including with respect to site acquisitions), the drafting and negotiation of planning (Section 106) agreements, advice in relation to the Environment Act (including Biodiversity Net Gain), the Habitats Regulations and Environmental Impacts Assessments (EIA), Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPO), and advice in relation to any and all aspects of the community infrastructure levy (CIL) regime (including mayoral CIL in London).

His experience includes acting on appeal schemes as part of the client’s wider appeal team.

He also has a specialism in the field of planning enforcement, experience with respect to highways and infrastructure.

Examples of Haroon’s work include:

• Acting for the Blenheim Estate and Pye Homes on various large-scale residential schemes in Oxfordshire and beyond, including a number of appeal schemes.
• Advising Oxfordshire County Council on the generational Begbroke Park regeneration scheme (circa 2,000 dwellings), including the negotiation of a complex Section 106 agreement, advising the Council on potential us of its CPO powers in relation to specific parts of the site, and the negotiation and drafting of CPO indemnity agreement.
• Acting for Persimmon (Thames Valley) on its Forge Wood (Gatwick) scheme in relation to a Section 106 agreement to secure a retrospective noise mitigation scheme (linked to the possible additional runway at Gatwick Airport) and associated escrow agreement with the LPA.
• Advising London Square on the planning aspects of its purchase of two phases of the Wilton Park scheme, Buckinghamshire, which also included detailed advice around the implications of the Hillside case concerning a proposed ‘drop-in’ application for one of the phases being acquired.