Adrian specialises in property development work, particularly planning and environmental issues. He has significant expertise in brownfield development, particularly the complex issues involving contaminated land, and the re-use of listed buildings.

Adrian has dealt with a wide range of property types including residential developments, warehouses, factories, railway buildings, power stations and other industrial developments.

Adrian has purchased and sold properties for investment and/or development in the City and West End of London and elsewhere at values between £20 million - £40 million. He has also acted on the purchase of a chemical plant for £45 million. Recent/significant transactions include:

Landowner

• Acting for members of a consortium of landowners on the sale of land for residential development. Overall value of consortium land in excess of £100 million.
• Acting for a consortium of landowners on the sale of land for development. Value £3 million.

• Sale of hotel on a contract conditional on planning for residential development. Value in excess of £2 million.

Industrial operator

• Acting for tenant on a new lease at a rent of £3 million per year. Value £15 million.

• Sale of contaminated industrial site with monies allocated to cover clean-up costs and purchaser obligations to remediate. Value £5 million.

Developer

• Acting for developer on purchase with pre-let and construction aspects. Value £10 million - £12 million.

Leisure sector

• Purchase of a hotel as a going concern. Value £2 million.
• Property aspects of refinancing for client. Value £8 million.

Adrian qualified in 1981 at Blythe Owen, and spent a year at the Department of the Environment. He joined Henmans in 2006 as a partner from Kingsley Napley, where he had also been a partner.

Adrian is accredited by the Solicitors' Regulation Authority as a planning specialist and is a member of the UK Environmental Law Association and the Royal Town & Country Planning Institute.