Bio
Mark is a Commercial Real Estate Partner.
With more than 30 years’ experience, Mark provides comprehensive advice on all aspects of town and country planning, including planning, highways, heritage, legal agreements, contentious planning enforcement issues, issues around the community infrastructure levy, High Court challenges and appeals, Town and Village Greens, Assets of Community Value and general planning queries.
He works with a variety of different clients from individuals, trusts in respect of landed estates, and companies both large and small. His practice tends to relate to problems and issues that have arisen in the planning process including the development of existing sites with planning permission, sites which have been developed either without planning permission or in breach of condition or issues that have arisen to relation to enforcement.
Mark’s planning experience is supplemented by having worked in-house for a local authority, which involved interacting with various officers, as well as acting as legal adviser to a planning committee over many years.
Examples of Mark’s work include:
- Providing longstanding advice to a client regarding rectification of a development undertaken without planning permission together with a planning colleague which involved the submission of a planning application and its appeal to the Secretary of State.
- Undertaking a planning due diligence exercise on behalf of a client looking to acquire almost 300 new dwelling houses.
- Advising on the steps that needed to be undertaken to secure a planning permission which was due to expire in respect of a residential development involving the conversion of a large listed building into flats and further external residential development.