Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Orkney Islands Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Burges Salmon LLP
- Value
- £75,000
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Business services · Legal advisory services (CPV 79111000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 081004-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Dec 2025
- Published9 Dec 2025Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
Orkney Islands Council as a statutory Planning Authority has the means to enter agreements with third parties under Section 75 of the Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 in order to restrict the use of land or regulate the use of land being developed where this is necessary to ensure that a development meets provisions associated with Planning decision. Such provisions may include financial provision through a bond or other means which the Planning Authority may call upon at a later date to ensure that remediation or other works which may be addressed in a planning condition are complete should the original developer no longer intend to discharge that condition. The Council wishes to commission specialist advisors to support a review of historic agreements; and to act as lead advisor to the Council in negotiating and framing future agreements where these are required. Support to forming future policy on developer contributions/financial agreements in the new Local Development Plan is also re…
About the supplier
Burges Salmon LLP: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC307212).