Dr Edward Mitchell
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 876537
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Location
4SB.5.23, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
By appointment only. Please email edward.mitchell@essex.ac.uk for an appointment.
Profile
Biography
My primary research interests are in the field of compulsory purchase law and town planning law. My most recent publication provides an empirical examination of the contractual arrangements that local authorities make with private sector property developers in an attempt to secure the construction of affordable housing through planning obligations made pursuant to section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. I have also recently published work examining the contractual arrangements between local authority local authorities and private sector property developers that often underpin the compulsory purchase and redistribution of private land. My other published work analyses financial viability modelling and legal processes in the context of local authority decision-making related to property development on large urban sites. I have also conducted research into legal education, particularly focussing upon the potential for low-stakes continuous assessment to enhance student motivation, engagement and confidence. I teach property and land law modules.
Qualifications
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PhD University of Sheffield,
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LPC University of Sheffield,
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MA Law University of Sheffield,
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BA American Studies University of Sheffield,
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Law and time
Compulsory purchase
Property development
Planning law
Conferences and presentations
A duty to have "due regard"? Equality, Human Rights and Compulsory Purchase in England
Association of European Schools of Planning, 2019 Annual Congress, Venice, Italy, 11/7/2019
Compulsory Purchase, Conditional Legal Agreements and Urban Property Development in England and Wales
Association of European Schools of Planning, 2017 Annual Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, 12/7/2017
Timely property development: can a date be unconditional on Friday 9 September 2016 at The New Legal Temporalities? Discipline and Resistance across Domains of Time at the University of Kent for the Regulating Time AHRC Network
Canterbury, United Kingdom, 2016
Lining Things Up or Making Things Up? Conditional Development Agreements and Urban Property Development on Friday 20 May 2016 at the Association of Law, Property, and Society Annual Meeting at Queens University Belfast
Belfast, United Kingdom, 2016
An instinct to conceal: urban property development and freedom of information requests on Tuesday 7 April 2016 at the SLSA Annual Conference at the University of Lancaster A time in-between: the temporal logics of private and public sector development agreements and urban retail property redevelopment schemes on Tuesday 31 March 2015 at the SLSA Annual Conference at the University of Warwick
Lancaster, United Kingdom, 2016
Taking time: the temporal logics of private and public sector development agreement and retail-led regeneration on Thursday 26 February 2015 at the Annual Conference of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law, and Property Rights at the University of Thessaly
Volos, Greece, 2015
Developing Agreements? Private and Public Sector Development Agreements and Urban Regeneration on Saturday 7 June 2014 for the Seeing Like a City symposium at Queen Mary, University of London
London, United Kingdom, 2014
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Contract Law (LW101)
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Land Law (LW102)
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Foundations of Property Law (LW109)
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Land Law (LW303)
Publications
Journal articles (3)
Mitchell, E., (2021). Compulsory Purchase and the State Redistribution of Land: A Study of Local Authority-Private Developer Contractual Behaviour. Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law. 13 (1), 1-16
Mitchell, E., (2020). Planning, Property and Profit: The Use of Financial Viability Modelling in Urban Property Development. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. 71 (1), 35-55
Mitchell, E., (2020). Climate change and nationally significant infrastructure projects: R (on the application of Plan B Earth) v Secretary of State for Transport. Environmental Law Review. 22 (2), 125-132
Book chapters (2)
Mitchell, E., (2022). Contracting affordable housing delivery? Residential property development, section 106 agreements and other contractual arrangements. In: Taking English Planning Law Scholarship Seriously. Editors: Lee, M. and Abbot, C., . UCL Press. 207- 228. 9781800082892
Mitchell, E., (2022). Contracting affordable housing delivery?. In: Taking English Planning Law Scholarship Seriously. UCL Press. 207- 228
Contact
Academic support hours:
By appointment only. Please email edward.mitchell@essex.ac.uk for an appointment.