Bloomsbury Waite and Jewell: Environmental Law in Property Transactions

Product Description Waite and Jewell: Environmental Law in Property Transactions provides a comprehensive practitioner guide to the environmental issues that arise in property transactions. It is divided into three key sections: 1. Commentary and guidance on the property transaction and identifies where the environmental issues might occur. 2. Broader discussion and explanation of specific environmental law issues that the practitioner needs to know about. 3. Provision of precedents to assist the busy property lawyer. This edition will give a general update following the last edition in 2009 and covers the Green Deal, Climate Change Regulations and the significant number of Environmental Permitting Regulations and Waste Regulations that have amassed since the last edition. Also includes a whole new chapter on climate change. PART I APPROACHING THE TRANSACTION Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Dealing with information the caveat emptor rule and environmental issues Chapter 3 Preliminary enquiries Chapter 4 Freedom of access to environmental information Chapter 5 Local land charges search Chapter 6 Local authority and water company enquiries Chapter 7 Other sources of information Chapter 8 Environmental survey Chapter 9 Assessing and managing environmental risk: contractual protection and environmental insurance Chapter 10 Particular transactions leases, lending and securitisation Chapter 11 Agreements for remedial works Chapter 12 Transferring permits PART II THE BROADER CONTEXT Chapter 13 Civil liability Chapter 14 Statutory nuisance Chapter 15 Contaminated land Chapter 16 Waste Chapter 17 Water Chapter 18 Built environment Chapter 19 Nature conservation Chapter 20 Environmental permitting and atmospheric pollution PART III PRECEDENTS A Definitions B Provisions designed to channel liabilities to the buyer under the general law C Warranties D Wide indemnity E Limited indemnity by the seller and counter indemnity by the buyer F Lease provisions tenant s covenants G Lease provisions landlord s covenants H Loan agreement clauses I A letter of appointment of environmental consultant J Deed of collateral warranty K Deed of appointment of environmental consultant to undertake site investigation Phase II (intrusive works) L Remediation works About the Author Andrew Waite is head of the Environmental Group at Ashurst LLP and author of Environmental Law Handbook, Gregory Jones QC, is a barrister from Francis Taylor Buildings and an author on Statutory Nuisance and Valerie Fogleman is an environmental law Consultant at Stevens Bolton LLP.