No Pain No Gain? On biodiversity and the luxury residential sector
New biodiversity net gain laws have the potential to add significant additional costs to the development of schemes in the UK's rural and costal locations, writes Nicholas Burt...

Nicholas assists with Real Estate development finance of all kinds. Although predominantly active in the residential development market (including in the spheres of institutional, high street and HCA / Homes England development funding), Nick also advises a range of commercial real estate clients including those in the leisure market in owner occupier driven transactions.
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