A top planning lawyer at [...].Atop planning lawyer at leading law firm, Dickinson Dees has recently advised three London Boroughs on development projects worth in excess of pounds 7.25bn. Jocelyn Denton who heads up the delivery of planning legal services legal services n. the work performed by a lawyer for a client. at the Newcastle-based firm's Yorkshire office, has been working on the prestigious hat-trick of deals for the London Borough of Newham, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets “Tower Hamlets” redirects here. For other uses, see Tower Hamlets (disambiguation).  This article or section may be confusing or unclear for some readers. and the London Borough of Lewisham The London Borough of Lewisham is a London borough in south east London, England and forms part of Inner London. The principal settlement of the borough is Lewisham and its council is based at Catford. .
Denton is acting for the London Borough of Newham on the pounds 4bn Stratford City Stratford City is a project to create a major new mixed use urban centre in East London on the site of a former railway goods yard at Stratford. The project will cost £4 billion funded from both public and private sources. project in East London East London, city (1991 pop. 240,474), Eastern Cape, SE South Africa, on the Indian Ocean. The city grew around a British military post founded in 1847. Its harbor was developed from 1886, and today it is a leading South African port. , which involves the regeneration of 180 acres of land around the new International Passenger Station at Stratford. A major new metropolitan centre, including about 5,000 new homes will be built as a result of the scheme and part of the site is to form the Athlete's Village for the 2012 Games. Denton has acted on the project since 2003 advising on all aspects of the planning applications for the scheme and being involved in the negotiation of complex planning agreements delivering benefits in the order of pounds 120m, plus affordable housing. John Fannon, borough planning officer at the London Borough of Newham, said: "The expert guidance we received from Dickinson Dees in respect of the Stratford Rail Lands has been invaluable to us in securing regeneration benefits for our local communities" Denton has also recently acted for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on the Wood Wharf Wood Wharf is a redevelopment project on the Isle of Dogs in the Docklands of London, England. Wood Wharf occupies a 20 acre (81,000 m²) site immediately to the east of Canary Wharf. The site was once part of the West India Docks. project, a pounds 3bn mixed-use redevelopment scheme on the Isle of Dogs Coordinates: The Isle of Dogs is a peninsula in the East End of London. It is surrounded on three sides (East, South and West) by the River Thames, which follows a horseshoe-shaped arc to the south of the peninsula. next to Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf is a large business development in London, located on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, centred on the old West India Docks in . In addition to advising on all aspects of the planning application for the scheme, she advised on the negotiation and completion of a planning agreement to secure benefits valued at pounds 153m. The scheme will provide offices, a hotel, 1,668 residential units, shops, restaurants, cafs and bars, leisure and community facilities and also includes the creation of a canal with bridge links. The hat-trick of deals is completed by the Lewisham Gateway project where Denton acted for the London Borough of Lewisham on a pounds 250m project to deliver a mixed-use scheme for Lewisham town centre with new homes, leisure and community facilities and retail, office and hotel uses in addition to open space and infrastructure works. She said: "It has been a privilege to work on these high value complex schemes which have such huge significance to the local authorities and the communities they serve. It has been challenging but rewarding work and demonstrates the quality of the legal work that is being undertaken in the Yorkshire region at present." CAPTION(S): NEGOTIATION Planning lawyer Jocelyn Denton has been advising three London-based development projects worth more than 7bn. |
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