08 February 2012
Burges Salmon is sending a team of lawyers to MIPIM again this year. Taking place from 6-9 March in Cannes, the world's leading real estate event sees four days of intensive real estate business.
24 October 2011
The award winning Real Estate group at leading UK law firm Burges Salmon has advised clients on three separate real estate development projects which have captured awards at the Insider South West annual property industry awards.
01 July 2011
Leading UK law firm Burges Salmon continues its reign as one of the UK's premier real estate advisers after winning the title of Real Estate Team of the Year at the prestigious Lawyer Awards 2011 held last month (21 June).
22 June 2011
If draft regulations come into force as planned on 1 July, an estimated 200,000 kilometres of private sewers and private lateral drains will, from 1 October this year, transfer “overnight” from private ownership to that of statutory sewerage and water companies.
03 June 2011
Speakers at a property industry seminar hosted by Burges Salmon at One Glass Wharf this month [01.06.11] welcomed plans to give residents and businesses a greater say in local planning, and to give communities greater incentives to back new development.
18 March 2011
Burges Salmon has appointed real estate Partner Philip Beer from City of London firm Simmons & Simmons. Philip joined on 14 March to further strengthen the expanding 65 lawyer real estate practice, recently awarded Property Team of the Year at the British Legal Awards.
18 March 2011
Top 50 UK law firm Burges Salmon has appointed four new partners from a range of practice areas across the firm. These appointments will bring the total number of partners to 69. They take effect from 1 May, 2011.
02 March 2011
Skanska has recently completed the purchase of its first UK residential development site. This news follows the announcement in December that it was to establish a Residential Development business in the UK.
01 February 2011
Burges Salmon have recently advised St Modwen Developments on its first pre-let at Firepool Taunton. Taunton-based waste management business Viridor is to relocate its head office to the £270m Firepool redevelopment scheme in the town. St Modwen expects to start construction on the 17-acre mixed-use project during the second quarter of 2011.
26 January 2011
The New Homes Bonus scheme announced last year is to be extended to empty homes. The proposed scheme has been generally well received by the industry. In outline, the idea is that central Government will pay local authorities a "bonus" equivalent to the council tax receipts for each new home provided in the local authority area for 6 years after that home is first occupied.
26 January 2011
As well as wide ranging proposals for reform of the planning system, the recently published Localism Bill is of interest for introducing the concept of "assets of community value". The Bill contains provisions which when implemented will confer a right of pre-emption for neighbourhood groups over certain properties such as pubs, shops, libraries or leisure centres.
14 July 2010
Restrictive covenants affecting real property must comply fully with UK competition law from 6th April 2011. This includes covenants in existing documents as well as those made after that date, whether contained in leases, transfers or other property deeds and agreements. Those which do not comply will be void and may give rise to other penalties for the parties after next April.
28 May 2010
Since 6 April 2010 local authorities have had the right (not the obligation) to charge Community Infrastructure Levy ("CIL") in order to provide a coordinated and predictable method for the funding of infrastructure works on developments.
21 May 2010
A cross departmental team led by Real Estate Head Richard Clark and including John Dunn (Client Partner for The Crown Estate), property development Partner David Gidney and Corporate Head Chris Godfrey, has advised on another major property acquisition, the Westgate Shopping Centre and adjoining development land in central Oxford, for long-standing client The Crown Estate.
01 October 2008
We have advised Westmark on its agreement with the Environment Agency for the construction of its new Headquarters.