Expert Evidence

LRA staff have many decades of accumulated experience which they can apply to planning issues, litigation and arbitration. Areas in which we have provided expert evidence include:

Impacts of proposed development on the national or local resource of best and most versatile
agricultural land
Soil defects contributing to failing landscape schemes
Alleged derogation of land and property by industrial emissions, illegal tipping, soil erosion
and installation of pipelines
Restoration of landfills
Reinstatement of high quality agricultural land after quarrying or construction.
Damage to a property's soil and water resources as a result of pollution from adjacent agricultural or commercial land
Adverse possession of land

A few of our clients

Case Studies

High Court action alleging pollution of agricultural land by factory emissions

To help settle a long-running High Court action, LRA's senior director was asked to investigate soil and land aspects of the alleged pollution

Failing landscape scheme in Lancashire

Defects in soil preparation were resulting in failure of designed landscape in public open space