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Regeneration and connectivity

Delivering successful ‘once in a generation’ transport-led regeneration projects, helping drive local and regional regeneration through reconnection.

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Improving transport connectivity and investing in transport hubs is a substantial driver in many of the significant regeneration projects aiming to revitalise local and regional communities, and fuel local economic opportunity.

Our multi-disciplinary teams work collaboratively with clients (and their wider consultant teams, including planning, financial and environmental consultants) to deliver transport-led regeneration and connectivity projects – from smaller-scale/regional projects to ‘once in a generation’ transformational projects for communities across the UK.

Adopting a ‘whole team approach’, we bring extensive experience, combining transport-focused specialists in legal disciplines including construction, procurement, real estate, planning, procurement, finance, regulatory, environmental, corporate and tax.

Every project adds real and sustainable value. In addition to facilitating substantial opportunity, boosting local and regional employment, and driving economic growth, these communities are now regarded as desirable destinations – increasing usage and land value.

Our teams have acted extensively for all parties on such projects, including landowners, promoters, infrastructure operators/owners and developers. We understand all the perspectives and appreciate what each wants to achieve. Every team member is fluent in the regulatory environment and knows the drivers and risks.

Members of the team have advised on flagship projects, including King’s Cross Central development (London), Weavers Cross (Belfast), Cardiff Parkway (Cardiff/Newport) and the Core Valley Lines transformation project (South Wales).

Services

Construction

Advising on construction strategy (including building safety), construction contracts, consultant appointments and development management agreements.

Procurement

Advising Authority clients on efficient and effective procurement structures and processes to enable large-scale regeneration and development projects.

Real estate

Advising landowners, developers and other stakeholders on transport-orientated development projects.

Planning

Advising on planning strategy, planning agreements, planning appeals, call-ins and other planning challenges.

Finance

Advising on private sector financing and public sector funding arrangements, including considering issues relating to Subsidy Control and innovative public sector funding structures.

Regulatory

Using our class-leading experience advising on regulatory matters across transport modes, and applying that to major regeneration and connectivity projects.

Environmental

Advising on the impact of environmental law and regulation, including liabilities for historic contamination and insurance arrangements.

Corporate

Advising on corporate joint ventures, in particular in relation to joint ventures with local authority/public sector partners.

Examples of our work

Weavers Cross, Belfast

Advising on a ‘regeneration through reconnection’ project, driving and supporting the regeneration and development of the region surrounding the new Belfast Grand Central Station transport hub.

A metropolitan transport operator

Advising on a corporate joint venture to use the operator’s surplus land to create new electric vehicle charging points across the city.

Core Valley Lines

Supporting on the upgrade of railway lines to the South Wales valleys from Cardiff, including the ‘first of a kind’ transfer of track, assets and people from Network Rail to Transport for Wales (TfW).

Cardiff Parkway

Advising on all aspects of the proposed development of a privately funded new station and business park on the main line between Cardiff and Newport, South Wales including land acquisition strategy, planning and consenting.

A public sector landowner

Advising on oversite development projects (OSDs) in London above and around operational transport facilities and assets (including by way of new corporate joint ventures).

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