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Development Consent Orders

Our knowledgeable team have decades of Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) experience under their belts and understand the potential pitfalls. We remain client focussed and seek to truly understand the project and the client’s needs. Our team come from rural backgrounds and we have dealt with farming and landowners extensively, understanding their needs and their concerns and how to communicate most effectively.

What we Offer

  • Land referencing and plans
  • Schedules of condition
  • Compensation claim negotiations and settlement
  • Agricultural Liaison Officers
  • Negotiation of access licences for surveys
  • Negotiation of option agreements
  • Valuation of assets for CPO purposes
  • Development and implementation of acquisition strategy
  • Topo surveys, drone surveys
  • Easement and Wayleave expertise
  • Electricity act conversion of wayleaves to easements in respect to overhead power lines
  • Negotiation with developers in respect to cable easements
  • Easements for water apparatus under the Water Industry Act 1991

Decades of expertise in DCO & compulsory purchase led by industry specialists

Howie, Kent & Co’s professional team boasts decades of experience in the land and property sector. Our DCO/compulsory purchase work is headed up by Chartered Surveyors Becky Evans and Simon Ashfield who between them have dealt with hundreds of claims and dozens of schemes in this sector.

  • Involvement in the HS2 projects from 2014 to present
  • Acting on behalf of a wide number and variety of commercial, rural and residential property owners and occupiers in respect of Hybrid Bill petitioning
  • Access licenses for ecology and ground investigations
  • Negotiation of crop losses and general disturbances
  • Preparation of blight notices and then valuing, negotiating and agreeing property values along with other applicable compensation
  • Advising in respect to acquisition notices (GVD’s and Notices to Treat), negotiating property values and applicable compensation
  • Negotiating and agreeing accommodation works to mitigate claimant losses
  • Preparation and submission of counter notices to compel acquisition of severed land
  • Whole business disturbance claims to reflect loss of profits or extinguishment
  • Negotiation of wayleaves and easements with a wide variety of utility authorities

Case Study

We acted on behalf of a national scientific research body in respect to long-term installation of ground monitoring equipment on a number of third party properties. The authority had archaic powers of compulsory acquisition, however their objective was to complete their scheme without having to attempt to use these powers. On behalf of our client we undertook:

  • Site referencing and initialising contact with landowners
  • Formalising of access licenses, negotiation and agreement with landowners and facilitating a survey programme
  • Negotiation of crop loss and disturbance arising from survey programme
  • Advice in respect to option and lease wording and consideration.
  • Successful Negotiation with landowners to enter into options avoiding CPO powers
  • General agricultural liaison officer role for execution of scheme

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