The dedicated business property team of Bath law firm Stone King has advised on a major project to double passenger lounge waiting capacity at Gatwick Airport.
The firm’s business property team acted for independent facility operator No1 Traveller Limited during the complex reorganisation of its lounges at Gatwick’s north and south terminals.
No1 expects to welcome over 300,000 travellers to its newly-enlarged south terminal lounge this year and more than 500,000 at its refurbished north terminal lounges, where seating capacity has been doubled.
Stone King advised on all property and commercial aspects of this complex project. The mammoth scheme, which involved substantial logistical and timing requirements over many months to facilitate the creation of the new lounge spaces, is one of the larger airport infrastructure projects that Stone King has advised on.
Sarah Lane, who heads Stone King’s business property team, said: “Timing is everything when carrying out complex fit out works in the centre of a terminal – an operator needs to work around everything else that is going on in an environment that operates around the clock, with many competing interests.
“Making that happen smoothly is both logistically and legally challenging. So we’re delighted to have provided No1 Traveller with the specialist legal advice they needed for this important infrastructure project.
“It will help ensure that Gatwick can accommodate growing numbers of air travellers well into the future.”
