Michelmores Strategic Land Podcast

This episode was originally released on 12 October 2023.

In our fourth episode, Richard Walford and Mark Howard discuss how natural capital and specifically biodiversity net gain fit within the compulsory purchase regime for the acquisition of interests in land. The podcast explores this new and rapidly developing area of property land.

Since recording this podcast series the Government have announced a delay to the implementation of the BNG regime until January 2024.

Creators and Guests

MH
Guest
Mark Howard
I am a Partner, Head of the Environment team and Head of Planning Law.
RW
Guest
Richard Walford
I am a Partner in the Real Estate Team and bring vast experience in working with private and public sector clients, helping them to resource and manage their legal work and resources efficiently.

What is Michelmores Strategic Land Podcast?

Welcome to our first Strategic Land Podcast series. Comprising of six episodes discussing issues relevant to the development of strategic land. Strategic land being the broad term given to land with potential to develop in the mid to long term encompassing the process of site assembly, promotion for planning consent all the way through to ultimate delivery into a developable asset.

Having the country’s leading agricultural legal practice and one of the largest development teams, we are ideally placed to support landowners and rural businesses in bringing forward land for development. Our podcasts aim to share our knowledge and experience, provide thought provoking and informative discussions and assist individuals and businesses with an interest in the strategic land sector.