This online session will be split into two parts. The first and shorter part will provide a high level overview of when the Party Wall Act is engaged and provide a summary of Party Wall Act processes.
The second part will provide a high level overview of rights of light including:
- What are rights of light?
- How are they created?
- When are they infringed?
- What are the potential consequences of infringement?
- How can rights of light be dealt with to facilitate development?
About Tom Freeman
Real Estate Litigation Principal Associate
Tom is an experienced real estate litigator with a particular focus on helping land promoters and developers overcome development constraints and successfully resolve disputes, including in relation to planning promotion agreements, option agreements, overage agreements, sale contracts and transfers.
Expertise:
- Successfully registering Light Obstruction Notices on an urgent/temporary and definitive basis against five apartment blocks in favour of mixed-use development site set to comprise 500 new homes and 54,000m2 of business space.
- Acting for the developer of a 250 unit BTR apartment block to successfully obtain an interim injunction to restrain the sale of adjacent land unless and until the owner granted leases in respect of two substation sites necessary to energise the development site.
- Advising a developer in connection with the terms of a Right of Light Insurance Policy and Excess policy
About the small and emerging practice group
The network provides a place to share knowledge and insights on:
- practice management
- marketing
- contracts and fees
- opportunities to collaborate
- climate initiatives
- new projects and planning permissions
- specific CPD topics
The network is able to make use of the research, support tools, and toolkits being produced by RIBA with relevant material and expert speakers.
For more information about this event, contact our RIBA Yorkshire team.
