Why choose Setfords London for your planning, development and construction needs?
Setfords’ planning, development, and construction team provide a wealth of experience to clients. We’re a comprehensive development partner, bringing a wealth of experience to your projects from conception to completion.
Proven Experience Across Project Types
Our team has a diverse portfolio encompassing a wide range of development projects, including:
- Commercial Properties: Whether it’s a renovation, a new office building, or a complex mixed-use development, we navigate the legalities and contractual intricacies to bring your project to life.
- Large-Scale Developments: We have the expertise to handle significant commercial projects involving energy generation, hotels, supermarkets, and more.
- Residential Developments: From small developments to large-scale communities, we ensure your project adheres to regulations and achieves your vision.
Guiding Your Development Journey
Our team excels in:
- Strategic Planning: We assist with feasibility studies, site selection, and navigating the planning permission process.
- Contractual Expertise: We draft and negotiate watertight development agreements, construction contracts, and appointments with architects, engineers, and other project professionals.
- Dispute Resolution: Should unforeseen challenges arise, we offer cost-effective solutions to resolve them promptly and efficiently, minimizing disruption to your project. We have a proven track record in mediation, arbitration, and litigation.
Members of our team have provided advice to developers, local authorities, contractors, sub-contractors, and private individuals and commercial organisations (including energy companies, PLCs, and national restaurant, cinema and retail chains). Previous projects range from commercial refurbishments of existing buildings and newly built residential developments of all sizes, to significant commercial sites involving energy generation, offices, hotels, supermarkets and restaurants. We have resolved disputes of all sizes and complexity, whether several thousand pounds in value or many millions.
Let’s Build Your Vision Together
For any issues concerning planning, development, and construction law, the early involvement of our lawyers will enable you to avoid potentially costly problems down the line. Where you are already involved in a dispute, we’ll help you achieve the best outcome using our significant expertise.
Contact Setfords today to discuss your development project and ensure its success from the ground up.
Our work includes:
Construction documentation and negotiation (JCT, NEC3, FIDIC etc.)
Appointment and warranty documentation
Performance Bonds, Parent Company Guarantees etc.
Contractual Notices
Adjudication claims
Arbitration
Litigation
Mediation
Members of our team have:
- Acted for several major local authorities regarding the construction documentation for various projects, including the refurbishment of a nationally known events venue, a proposed science and technology park, and various community and leisure facilities.
- Advised a number of leading high street banks in relation to the construction elements of development finance, drafting amendments to required building contracts, appointments and warranties, and negotiating the construction documentation on behalf of the banks with their borrowers, liaising with the banks’ monitoring surveyors throughout.
- Advised an energy company in relation to their contractual structures and construction documentation, IP agreements and project documentation, including joint ventures, for biomass facilities nationwide.
- Prepared construction documentation for use by a national cinema chain across all their developments, advising on all construction matters nationally, ensuring that obligations under the terms of agreements for lease, leases and licences to alter were carried through into the obligations of contractors.
- Advised several national chains of restaurants regarding construction documentation and issues.
- Advised and acted for a local government body with regard to their contractor’s late completion and defects under a JCT Design and Build contract for recreational and leisure facilities, including service of notices of specified default, termination and the final account.
- Received instructions to advise upon and prepare a suite of construction documentation for a residential housebuilder, including framework agreements, JCT Design and Build amendments, sub-contracts, purchase orders, appointments and warranties.
- Advised and acted for various freeholders and tenants of premises in Central London regarding construction documentation, including building contracts, professional appointments and warranties, ensuring that obligations under the terms of any relevant agreements for lease, leases and licences to alter were carried through into the obligations of contractors.
- Acted for various government-funded bodies, housing associations, and care providers regarding the construction documents and contractual structure for their projects.
- Acted for a major national and international chain of stores regarding a significant professional negligence claim concerning asbestos.
- Advised a top four supermarket plc on various elements of their construction documentation for a number of their supermarket developments nationwide.
- Advised a number of nationally known residential housebuilders and also various significant local residential housebuilders regarding construction issues and documentation on their projects nationwide.
