Aidan specialises in infrastructure and urban and housing regeneration projects, with more than 20 years’ experience in compulsory purchase and site assembly for large scale development and infrastructure schemes. He has a particular specialisation in compulsory acquisition for housing estate regeneration schemes, having acted for a number of local authorities on compulsory purchase orders for housing redevelopment.
Aidan heads up the compulsory purchase team within the firm. He advises acquiring authorities throughout the whole compulsory purchase process from initial consideration of powers right through to public inquiry and subsequent implementation of compulsory purchase powers and compensation claims.
Aidan also advises parties both in promoting and objecting to nationally significant infrastructure projects.
As part of his practice area, Aidan advises on all types of land transactions including freehold and leasehold disposals, development agreements, pre-emption, option and overage agreements.
Aidan is considered to be pragmatic and approachable with a desire to upskill and work with clients to build their own abilities in a complex, but increasingly required, area of legal procedure and practice.
Aidan appears regularly in the Legal 500 and has been listed as a “Next Generation Partner” in both the 2020 and 2023 Editions.
I am sure that we will call on you for advice as you have always been so reliable and good.
Senior solicitor Aidan Dickinson is “approachable and pragmatic”
Legal 500, 2015
Emyr Thomas, Andrew Swaffer, Aidan Dickinson and above all Alastair Lewis are all exceptional solicitors, who I have only good things to say of
Legal 500, 2021
26 February 2024
Download Article The Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 (the LURA) received Royal Assent received on 26 October 2023 and is a substantial piece of legislation (over 500 pages long!), creating a raft of new laws concerning the property industry, many of which are yet to come into force. In this round up we explore some…
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