A company was the landlord of premises which were let on a long lease. The lessee applied for permission to redevelop. As a precondition of permission, the Council required significant financial contributions to local infrastructure and insisted that the landlord should be primarily liable for these contributions even though it was not itself carrying out the development. We negotiated a deed of indemnity from the lessee, and also required them to deposit with us funds to cover the contributions so that our client was protected lest the lessee became insolvent.
A company owned the freehold of an office building next to a railway line. The line was being upgraded and the office building and its tenants were going to be seriously affected by both the construction works and by the permanent widening of the line which required the compulsory acquisition of some of the company's land. We pursued an objection to the CPO on the company's behalf in order to protect their interest and negotiated arrangements to protect their tenants' amenity and the value of the company's investment.
A company ran a health and fitness centre and was concerned when a rival applied to open a similar club nearby. We gathered objections to the application on our client's behalf. The new application was refused and the threat to the viability of our client's business was removed.