Property Transactions: Planning and Environment

Conveyancing / Tenancy / Land

Property Transactions: Planning and Environment

Edited by Gary Soloman · Georgie Messent
Sweet & Maxwell U.K. December 2006

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780421917606
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
Publication
December 2006
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Offering a hands-on practical guide to environmental planning issues, this guide is indispensible for any property lawyer. Property Transactions: Planning and Environment:

  • Includes expert guidance on various types of property transaction, including sale, purchase and letting
  • Provides practical guidance on complex issues such as infrastructure agreements, contaminated land liabilities, environmental insurance and arrangements surrounding due diligence reports
  • Highlights key contentious procedural aspects and suggests a variety of potential remedies as well as sources of further information
  • Covers the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and public rights of way legislation.
  • Includes a wealth of practical guidance, including drafting sale and purchase agreements for freehold and contracts conditional on planning
  • Provides precedents covering; warranties, indemnities, terms and conditions, appointing environmental consultants and the scope of environmental audits
  • Offers key summaries in the form of checklists, flow-charts and worked examples throughout

Table of Contents

Initial considerations
  • Structure of transaction
  • Need for information - assessment of liabilities
  • Site details
Information gathering
  • Environmental information
  • Environmental searches
  • Asbestos
  • Insurance
  • Planning information
  • Planning searches
  • Key contacts at seller and purchaser
Drafting documentation
  • Drafting sale and purchase agreement for freehold
  • Sale and purchase conditional on obtaining planning
  • Leaseholds - additional issues for consideration
  • Due diligence report
Additional considerations
  • Funding and borrowing on transactions
  • Contaminated land tax relief
Post-transactional issues
Precedents
Terms and conditions appointing environmental consultants
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