Real property law covers a wide range of issues arising from the ownership and development of land.

Tanfield’s members advise and act in cases including:

  • options
  • pre-emption rights
  • contracts for sale
  • overage and planning agreements
  • mortgages and receivership
  • trusts of land
  • boundaries and party walls
  • easements including rights of light, way, drainage and the right to run cables, pipes and utilities
  • the demolition and construction of buildings
  • injunctions, specific performance, possession and orders for sale,
  • land registration including determined boundaries and adverse possession
  • restrictive covenants
  • building schemes
  • public rights of way and highways,
  • commons and villages greens
  • sporting rights, riparian rights, waterways, mines and minerals and wayleaves

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