- Client
- Network Rail
- Sector
- Infrastructures
- Location
- Greater London
- How we helped
- Compulsory purchase compensation Capital markets Transport
Mark Hall-Digweed heads the Infrastructures department, where he has developed the team to deliver project management, land agency and property consultancy services to utility, public sector bodies and civil engineering organisations. The team is very successful and has grown to attract large clients such as Network Rail. Mark was also appointed in 2010 to lead Carter Jonas’s cross divisional Public Sector Group, where he is responsible for developing clients with complex multi-faceted requirements.
Marks primary skills include multiple site management, high level negotiation and dispute resolution, programme management and the implementation of new systems, estate management, as well as compulsory purchase and compensation work. He has high levels of experience in all of the above.
Network Rail is looking to promote a new rail link to Heathrow Airport which would provide direct rail access from Reading and the West of England.
Carter Jonas is instructed on behalf of Network Rail to lead the promotion of DCO powers to create a new link into Heathrow, improving the accessibility of Heathrow from the West of England. We have provided initial land referencing advice to enable Network Rail to carry out public consultations on the various scheme options.
We are also providing land access for ecological and engineering surveys required for the development of the scheme. Going forward we will be supporting Network Rail through the promotion of a DCO Application including valuation and acquisition advice.