David Evans

• Site assessment and strategic advice on development opportunities
• The preparation and submission of planning, listed building consent and certificates of lawfulness applications and appeals
• Planning and highway undertakings
• Enforcement
• Environmental impact assessments
• Judicial review and statutory challenges
• Development plan representations
• Village green applications
• Freedom of information requests
• Compulsory purchase orders and blight notices
• Permitted development rights
• The Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations (CIL)

• Acted on several high-profile, tall-building schemes in the Vauxhall Nine Elms Opportunity Area and the Southbank. The projects engaged complex issues arising in respect of Environmental Impact Assessment, including CIL, s.106 and judicial review
• Secured on appeal permission to erect 37 high-value residential units next to a Royal Park without any affordable housing contribution. The decision is a text-book example of the role of viability in planning
• Negotiated and settled planning agreements relating to the provision of a total of 80 affordable housing units in sites in Hammersmith & Fulham and Hackney. The innovative schemes provide affordable housing in perpetuity without recourse to any public subsidy
• Advised on the planning law issues arising in respect of the conversion and extension of a landmark listed building in central London into a 99-bedroom hotel and museum
• Negotiated the planning agreements relating to the £40 million re-development of a listed building into London’s largest casino
• Led a project seeking the conversion, renovation and extension of a workshop complex in Primrose Hill into a mixed-use scheme, comprising a single large-scale dwelling house and offices. Advising on all planning aspects of the project, including the drafting and negotiation of the planning agreement
• Successfully challenged the Secretary of State’s decision on an enforcement notice appeal in the High Court

David Evans is recognised by the Legal 500 2017.

Noted as a key figure in Planning law by the Legal 500 2016

David is recommended by the Legal 500 UK 2015