Publication of the week: Natalie Pratt

Pratt, N., “Analysing conservation covenants”, Journal of Planning and Environment Law (2014): [2014] 12 JPL 1310-1319

This article considers the recommendation of the Law Commission report of 24 June 2014 “Conservation Covenants” that the “conservation covenant” should be introduced in the form of a statutory burden on land, governed by a new statutory scheme, rather than as a contractual or proprietary right. It outlines the covenant’s proposed key features, and compares it to a Town and Country Planning Act 1990 s.106 agreement. Natalie Pratt discusses the potential use of the covenant to protect biodiversity within the planning system.

The full text of the article is available on University computers via Westlaw.

Natalie Pratt joined Buckingham Law School in 2013 from the University of Oxford, St Hugh’s College, where she was reading for the postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law degree. She graduated from the BCL with the subject prize for Advanced Property and Trusts. She is currently working on a theory for the classification of new rights emerging in the field of property law, with specific focus on the law of town and village greens, the recent Law Commission consultation on conservation covenants and the Law Commission proposals on the new ‘land obligation’. Natalie has also been part of the legal team at a number of specialist land public inquiries, covering commons, village green and planning disputes.