Consultant
Property and Planning

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Laurence's areas of expertise:

  • Buying and selling commercial and residential properties ranging from mixed-use developments to investment properties, on behalf of developers, investors and private individuals.
  • Planning from pre-application to appeals, including negotiating planning agreements for large commercial and mixed-use developments with particular emphasis on environmental aspects.
  • Financing commercial and mixed-use properties.
  • Landlord and tenant issues, including negotiating commercial leases, lease renewals and extensions.


Recent interesting cases:

  • "One of our clients is a rapidly expanding and successful restauranteur and in the last 5 years has taken over 25 leases for cafes/delicatessens in shopping centres and city locations throughout the country. The transactions, which usually involve developer obligations to produce new restaurant units to specification within a tight time-table, have needed to be settled within relatively short time frames to take advantage of our client's growing reputation and market opportunities. While we were carrying out this expansion, we also successfully floated our client's organisation on the AIM market."
  • "On behalf of another client, I successfully negotiated numerous, complex planning agreements which were essential for a large, commercial, residential and mixed-use redevelopment project in north west London to proceed."


What our clients say:
"Laurence has acted on all of our property transactions over the past seven years. His practical commercial advice has greatly assisted us in achieving our expansion over this period from one to nearly 30 caffes." Simon Kossoff, Managing Director, Carluccio's plc

Qualified: as a Solicitor in 1974.

Education: Durham University.

Memberships: Elected a Legal Associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute.

Background and legal experience: City law firms. Joined CBG in 2000 as a consultant.