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Our Services
Is your land required for public works?
We offer many services to help landowners navigate the impact of public works on their property, ensuring fairness when land is being taken.
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We know the process can be complex and stressful. We are here to help.
Our Services
Where are you in the process?
Land Requirements and Designations
Our Services
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Assess project impact on your property
Consider value loss, disturbance, disruption and blight -
Challenge why your property is needed
Manage town planners, planning lawyers and other technical specialists -
Negotiate terms of designation conditions
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Submissions and management of experts for formal hearings
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Advice on pre-acquisition land use and development
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Advice on loss in value/reasonable use, value impact and possible recourse
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Negotiate licenses with acquiring authority to enter your land for survey and testing
Why choose us
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Designations and acquisition proposals can impact your property for years
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This is the time to help shape and moderate the impact of a public work on your property
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In some circumstances an acquiring authority can be persuaded to action a designation which is blighting a landowner’s property
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Minimize project construction and disruption impact i.e. City Rail Link
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Licence to occupy for invasive and other pre-project testing are intrusive and in rural environments need to be carefully managed
Acquisition and Land Compensation
Our Services
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Challenging acquisition needs and type e.g. full, partial, strata, lease, license, easement or other land use rights
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Manage time consuming process, supporting, representing and advocating for you
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Testing valuation logic, thinking and methodology and challenging valuation opinion, where appropriate
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We will instruct, manage, support and get the very best from all specialists necessary to suit your situation
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Negotiate and optimise land compensation and legal agreements under multiple entitlements
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Litigation management at Environment Court or Land Valuation Tribunal, if necessary.
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Where agreement cannot be reached, guidance through the formal compulsory acquisition process, s18, s23 and s26 of the Public Works Act 1981.
Why choose us
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Our collaborative approach ensures your knowledge of your property combined with our experience is utilized to best effect. Nobody understands your property and your sense of loss like you do
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Loss of property rights can be life changing for you or your business for decades, sometimes inter-generational. It is our job to soften the blow as much as possible
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Most reasonable costs you incur will be recoverable from the Acquiring Authority
​​Relocation
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Property search and acquisition of your new home, farm, or investment property
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Procurement of new business premises to put you back in a position of equivalence
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Recovery of costs including loss and business goodwill
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Complete due diligence and transaction management service
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Project management of fitout or conversion of new premises to match business needs
Why choose us
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Costs, disturbance, disruption, and risk when replacing and/or relocating to your replacement asset are significant and need to be carefully managed
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Most reasonable costs in this phase are recoverable from the Acquiring Authority and we will ensure recovery to the fullest extent possible
Property Declared Surplus
Our Services
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In some instances, surplus public property must be offered to former Owners before being sold on the open market
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Requires careful management due to complex legal and commercial considerations
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Transaction management and litigation management if necessary
Why choose us
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Expert management of process required often in conjunction with legal advisers due to significant financial implications
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Often contentious, particularly where significant value increases have occurred since property become surplus
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In certain circumstances, public owner can work around offer back requirement by transferring property to another public user. (with a legitimate public work need)
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On the other hand, recent court decisions have clarified and strengthened former owner rights in certain cases
