Section 106 Agreements

Section 106 Agreements (also known as planning obligations) are legal agreements entered into pursuant to Section 106 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 made between local planning authorities and developers

Typically, these agreements are required by local planning authorities as a pre-condition to the grant of planning permission for a development. They contain obligations on the developer intended to make the development acceptable, which would otherwise be unacceptable in planning terms. The agreement binds the land and therefore not just the parties to the agreement but also successors in title

For more information on Section 106 agreements and varying these agreements please click here to visit our dedicated website on Section 106 agreements

Our experience and why use our firm?

A Section 106 agreement is a planning legal agreement, and therefore it is important to engage a specialist planning lawyer to advise you on the terms of the agreement before you enter into it. This will ensure that the necessary protections for you, your funder and any future purchasers are incorporated into the agreement

Planning Clarity Legal is a specialist planning law firm and we have a substantive amount of experience negotiating Section 106 agreements, as well as deeds of variation to these agreements. We regularly negotiate these agreements with the legal teams of local planning authorities in London, but also wider England and Wales

Our lawyers are Legal Associate Members of the Royal Town Planning Institute and our Managing Director, Chad Sutton, sits on the Law Society’s Planning and Environmental Law Committee