Our highways law specialists advise on a multitude of issues from the construction, subsequent dedication, or adoption of new roads and footpaths and provision of associated bonds and other forms of security; to the stopping up, repairs to or improvement of existing highways, and oversail or overhang licences.
Our planning law team is highly experienced in all aspects of highway law, providing the legal expertise to ensure successful outcomes. We negotiate and draft complex Highways Act agreements, often related to major planning applications or sites of strategic or local importance.
Our solicitors advise local highway authorities and work closely with strategic highway authorities such as Transport for London and National Highways on a variety of schemes requiring knowledge of highways legislation.
The firm’s CPO team advises clients on the CPO process, having been involved in a number of highway CPOs for the provision of new highways infrastructure and to facilitate town centre regeneration schemes.
Our planning lawyers advise and assist clients on a full range of highways law and road traffic law:
With our Parliamentary and public law experience, we also advise highway authorities and other clients on the drafting and implementation of highways and road traffic legislation, including legislation relating to parking and civil enforcement of traffic offences.
22 January 2026
With 2026 now underway, the disputes team at Sharpe Pritchard is looking ahead to potential changes to the litigation landscape this year. One that has already attracted significant media attention is the proposed introduction of legislation to limit the availability of jury trial in England and Wales, which the Justice Secretary (David Lammy MP) has…
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White Paper or White Flag? And the BIG RED LINES. Defra’s New Vision for Water and the Test of Deliverability PART A – THOUGHTS FOR INDUSTRY What’s happening? A New Vision for Water (CP 1490), published in January 2026, sets out a once-in-a-generation reform agenda for England’s water sector. It responds to the Independent Water…
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As Wall Street and Silicon Valley debate whether there’s an ‘AI Bubble’, investment in the data centres powering the AI economy shows no sign of slowing. Global spending is forecast to hit $3 trillion in the next three years, with up to 100 data centres planned for construction in the UK already. Against this backdrop,…
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