Ian heads up Malcolm Hollis' rights of light and daylighting service and is also responsible for the Welwyn Garden City office. He specialises in rights of light and daylight and sunlight matters and leads the wider neighbourly services, including party wall, crane oversailing and access onto private land. His work predominantly involves assisting clients and designers during the planning stages of development projects and advising on the impacts that developments will have on rights of light and daylight. This includes negotiation with affected parties to avoid potential disputes and to mitigate risk. Changes in planning policy toward sustainability and recent high profile cases in these fields, such as the Heaney Case in which they advised the claimant, have focused the industry on opportunities and risks associated with daylight and sunlight amenity and rights of light. This is leading to an ever increasing demand for good quality and timely advice and to address this Ian has developed a national team of specialists to provide that advice.