Cripps Harries Hall

Beth Gascoyne

Associate

Beth Gascoyne is a planning solicitor with for over four years' experience. She specialises in the negotiation of section 106 agreements, highway agreements and variation of existing planning agreements. She regularly deals with planning appeals and advises on judicial review. She has a particular interest in development in the retirement housing sector.

Expertise

  • Planning
  • Housing associations
  • Judicial review
  • Listed buildings
  • Freedom of information
  • Compulsory purchase
  • Environment
  • Conservation areas
  • Trees
  • Tied cottages

Career

  • Associate, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2011
  • Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2006
  • Trainee Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2004
  • Acting for Kent Police Authority to obtain planning permission and stopping up of highways for a residential development at a surplus police station in Rochester, Kent
  • Acting for a utility company in successfully resisting, at inquiry, the diversion of a footpath through an operational site
  • Undertaking a series of planning reviews in relation to new site acquisitions for Wagamama Limited
  • Acting for Golding Homes in respect of the negotiation and completion of two section 106 agreements for separate regeneration schemes in Maidstone. The first involved the regeneration of over 100 flats, which were replaced with new houses and flats, with a mixture of affordable housing, private sale and private market rent being provided. The second scheme secured the demolition of 122 existing dwellings and the erection in their place of 112 houses and 52 flats
  • Acting for Town and Country Housing Group in respect of their application for the development of 92 flats at a site in Tonbridge - this involved the negotiation and completion of a section 106 agreement to secure financial contributions, affordable housing and the provision of a pedestrian footbridge
  • Acting for Wates (Thame) Limited on a complicated acquisition of former Thame United Football Club in a short timescale. Completion of two section 106 agreements with Oxfordshire County Council and South Oxfordshire District Council
Legal updates view all
+ Retirement living
Publication of the draft National Planning Policy Framework ('NPPF') has made it clear that the Government's agenda is now pro development.
 19/10/2011
+ Retirement living update - SUDS - more of a drama than a soap opera? & age restrictions in planning for retirement housing - February 2011
The government has been becoming increasingly concerned with the management of surface water, including water quality and its impact on the local environment, together with the risk of flooding to homes and businesses as a result of heavy rainfall. To address these issues, as well as the question of who will ensure drainage systems are properly maintained in the future, the Flood and Water Management Act received royal assent on 8th April 2010.
 01/02/2011