Empty Homes: Classroom Session - Compulsory Purchase Order, Basics and Beyond
When: 10th October 2024 | 9:30am – 4pm
Location : The Studio Birmingham, Birmingham, B2 5EP
Cost : FREE
Finders International are hosting FREE Classroom Session for Empty Home Officers and those working in association with empty properties.
Finders International are hosting yet another FREE classroom session for Empty Home Officers and those working in association with empty properties, for those based in and around Birmingham. To deliver the session and back by popular demand, we have invited specialist solicitors, Jennifer Batten and Oliver Forster-Vets from NP Law (Norfolk County Council) who will be delivering training on legal solutions for empty properties.
This training course will cover compulsory purchase orders and enforced sales, explain the circumstances in which these solutions might be used and aid in understanding the processes involved in pursuing these routes.
This event is FREE to attend and has limited availability. Places are allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Location
The Studio Birmingham, Birmingham, B2 5EP
We will be joined by…
Jennifer Batten
Senior Solicitor
NPLaw
Jennifer has a degree in Environmental Geography and International Development from the University of East Anglia. She has also completed the Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course at the De Mont Fort University both with Distinction. Prior to this she spent several years working in conveyancing at private firms. Jennifer has been a member of nplaw’s planning team since October 2017 and her work includes Compulsory Purchase Orders, Traffic Regulation Orders, s106 agreements, s278 agreements and a range of planning and highways advice work. In January 2020 she became a Trainee Solicitor with nplaw and in July 2021 she qualified as a Solicitor. In December 2022 Jennifer was promoted to a Senior Solicitor following her work on planning injunctions.
Oliver Forster-Vets
Solicitor
NPLaw
Oliver graduated from the University of East Anglia with a degree in Law with European Legal Systems in July 2019, then joining nplaw as a Legal Officer in September 2019. In February 2022 he began his Graduate Solicitor Apprenticeship with the University of Law that would see him sit the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE), the new route to solicitor qualification that is due to replace the Legal Practice Course, through 2023 and 2024. Oliver passed both SQE 1 and SQE 2 in the top quintile and qualified as a Solicitor in June 2024. He works nplaw’s Planning and Environment team within nplaw and deals with a range of matters including Compulsory Purchase Orders, s106 planning obligation agreements, s278 and s38 highways agreements, traffic orders, public rights of way, and tree preservation orders.
Our host for this session…
Muhammad Uddin
Public Sector Development Manager
Finders International
Muhammad Uddin previously worked in housing for 17 years within the Social Housing and Private Sector Hosting. His most recent experience was with a local authority in Leicestershire, where he worked as an Empty Homes Officer, with a proven track record of successfully bringing 196 empty properties back into use.
Muhammad has experience dealing with all empty homes related issues within the private sector, working in partnership with home owners, carrying out property inspections for housing standards, HHSRS property inspections, and offering grants and property maintenance advice to property owners. Muhammad also managed acquisition with annual budget of £10m used to purchase empty properties and properties on the market in dealing with the Housing shortage councils are facing.
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