DJB - Commercial property law

As one of the leading providers of commercial property law and planning law legal services in the southwest of England, Davitt Jones Bould or DJB as it is often referred to by its clients has a reputation for providing the highest quality legal advice and conveyancing services.

As a solicitors firm DJB offers services ranging from commercial property conveyancing, business tenancy law, landlord and tenant, environmental law, planning inquiries, Section 106 Agreements (S106 Agreements), planning obligations, tenders, option agreements, easements, wayleaves, Circular 18/84 Agreements, compulsory purchase, planning enforcement, highways law, judicial review, local plan enquiries, business leases, renewals, rent reviews, dilapidations, commercial development, residential development, contaminated land, sites of special scientific interest, Crichel Down Rules, planning advice, clawback, business tenancies, acquisitions and litigation when the firm can handle the matter.

The firm also provides training services for the property professional through DJB Legal Training, a trading style of Davitt Jones Bould Solicitors.

Through DJB Legal Training the firm provides updates for the property professional namely chartered surveyors (RICS qualified), commercial valuers, land surveyors, property developers, land agents, and agricultural valuers.

Courses offered attract CPD (Continuing Professional Development) accreditation.

Davitt Jones Bould acts for a range of clients covering both the public sector and private sector incorporating central government, local authorities, housing associations, housebuilders, developers, landowners and the health sector.

The team of lawyers employed by DJB are comprised of private practitioners and lawyers from the Government Property Lawyers (GPL) formerly based in Taunton, Somerset after the department was moved from London where it was called the Property Division of the Treasury Solicitors Department (TSOL).

Projects undertaken by the firm include the following: -

• Airports
• Wind farms
• Retail developments
• Sale of surplus land
• Office buildings
• Building land
• Schools
• Hospitals
• Universities