Dickinson Dees have a dedicated team of lawyers advising both companies in the waste management industry and local authorities.
The range of work undertaken by the team includes regulatory advice, litigation and investigations, transactions and planning.
We can offer a practical and realistic approach to any contracts/legal arrangements involving complex waste specific issues and also offer in depth legal experience relating to land and waste. We provide advice in relation to all waste specific issues including PFIs and Projects work, landfill tax, landfill gas exploitation agreements and all aspects of restoration and aftercare of landfill sites .
We can offer advice not only on contractual issues but associated planning, environmental, property, construction, funding and employment issues where relevant. We provide a comprehensive service and cohesive advice in relation to all aspects of waste sector contracts.
Our recent transactions include the following:-
Purchase and sale of Waste companies;
Acquisitions and disposals of existing and proposed landfill sites together with structuring advice relating to environmental and tax liabilities;
Waste Projects/PFI
Acting for both Landlords and Tenants in relation to Royalty Rent leases for mineral extraction and landfill sites;
PPC permitting appeals
Planning applications and environmental impact assessments for opencast coal, hardrock, sand and landfill proposals;
Planning advice to mineral and waste planning authorities on major hardrock, brickshale and landfill proposals;
Advice on development of major non-hazardous waste sites particularly in respect of the categories of waste to be landfilled;
Planning applications and appeals for waste recycling facilities;
Certificate of Lawful Use applications and Judicial Review of planning appeal decisions in respect of waste recycling facilities;
Advocacy for public inquiry on proposed physio-chemical treatment of clinical waste;
Acting in the purchase of a multi-purpose waste management companies and waste transfer businesses;
Acting for waste management companies charged by the Environment Agency with breaches of licence and prosecuted by local authority for air pollution nuisance;
Representing landfill site managers in relation to fatal accident investigations.
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