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Bob Sadler is a senior associate with extensive experience in all aspects of planning and highways.
He is highly experienced with complex section 106 agreements, planning appeals, highways issues (including all forms of agreement), large mixed-use developments, hotels, residential development, enforcement, listed buildings and Assets of Community Value.
He regularly works for both developer and local authority clients.
He advises on all forms of planning risk including Hillside matters.
He also drafts complex contracts conditional on planning, analyses planning applications for legal compliance and is adept at tying together complex documents in development deals.
Bob is dedicated to finding elegant commercial solutions to knotty legal issues.
- Advising developers on planning issues for very large mixed use developments.
- Drafting and negotiating complex contracts conditional on planning for major residential and commercial development schemes.
- Negotiating and drafting a large number of S106 Agreements for a number of developers and councils.
- Analysing planning applications for legal compliance and advising on possible modifications.
- Advising on planning appeal enquiries and hearings including instructing leading Counsel.
- Advising public and private sector clients on highways law and issues.
- Advising many clients on the interpretation of agreements and highways issues.
- Analysing planning decision documentation for judicial review risk for a major supermarket chain.
- 'The Howard Kennedy team excel in this area and are always available to explain and understand our requirements and offer sound advice on matters, delivered, in the main, in understandable terms. The whole team is worthy of mention, but in particular Jade Chalmers and Bob Sadler.' Chambers UK 2026
- Listed as Key Lawyer, Real estate: Planning, Legal 500 UK 2023
Bob spent many years in the music industry and although now living far from the sea has always been a keen sailor.
