As a healthcare professional delivering primary care, at some point in your career you are likely to need help with your business premises.
Whether you are looking to buy or sell a freehold premises or enter into a lease (whether as a stand-alone transaction or as part of a business transfer), you will need to instruct a solicitor to advise you. In most cases, a generalist solicitor will not be familiar with the legal and regulatory considerations associated with primary care premises and we recommend you speak to a specialist.
Here at DR Solicitors, we act for all the major lenders in healthcare and have built strong relationships with specialist surveyors, accountants, developers and local commissioners. Our aim is to work in tandem with other parties to reach a swift and desirable outcome for you.
When putting a lease in place (whether as landlord or tenant), an ‘off the shelf’ commercial retail lease is unlikely to provide you adequate protection and careful consideration needs to be given to mitigating the risks of entering into a lease. Amongst other things, you need to understand the termination provisions, how future rents will be calculated, your potential liability for service charges and your repairing/reinstating obligations.
If you are purchasing freehold business premises, we can help you check the planning use and make an application for D1 or C2 planning consent if it is not already in place. If you plan to make alterations to the building, we will advise you if they are permitted under the category of a permitted development or if you will need to apply for planning permission/building regulation consent.
If you are a GP, then please read our GP premises page
We can help you with:
- sale & purchase of land & premises
- planning advice
- primary care developments
- leases
- property trust deeds
- bank refinancing
- sale and leasebacks
- service charge disputes
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