Gordon McCreath
Partner
Gordon advises on consenting of major projects and environmental and regulatory issues across the energy, transport and infrastructure and sectors.
Gordon's experience
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Providing all legal consenting advice on the Berwick Bank offshore wind farm, a 4.1GW project in the outer Firth of Forth, and the largest offshore wind farm under development anywhere in the UK.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advised TI Liric on all Scottish and Northern Irish planning, CPO, property, and regulatory aspects of its proposed 700MW interconnector, the first between Scotland and Northern Ireland since 2002. Successfully secured the reversal of Ofgem’s initial subsidy decision and inclusion in the Third Cap and Floor window, making the project viable.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advised National Highways on all aspects of the second judicial review of the A303 Stonehenge Tunnel DCO, successfully defending the scheme in the High Court and Court of Appeal, and securing refusal of permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.
- United Kingdom
- Infrastructure
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Advised Anglian Water, a major UK water utility, and partner companies Affinity Water and Cambridge Water on all aspects of their Strategic Resource Option projects, including the South Lincolnshire Reservoir, Fenland Reservoir, and Anglian to Affinity Transfer.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advised Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, a leading energy infrastructure investor, on the development consent order application for the Tarchon Interconnector Project, a 1.4 GW, 610 km direct power link between Germany and Great Britain.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advised National Highways on the judicial review challenges to the Department for Transport’s decisions to grant development consent for (i) the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme (aka the Stonehenge Tunnel), and (ii) the A66 Northern Trans Pennine Scheme. Both challenges were successfully defeated.
- £1.9bn
- United Kingdom
- Infrastructure
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Advising six of the proposed ScotWind offshore wind projects, with a combined potential generating capacity in excess of 10GW. Appointed to provide planning advice throughout the early development and consenting stages of these projects, including detailed advice on technical matters including EIA and habitats regulations assessment.
- United Kingdom
- Renewables
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Advising TI LirIC Limited on all Scottish and Northern Irish planning, compulsory purchase, property and regulatory aspects of this 700MW interconnector, the first Scotland/NI interconnector since Moyle in 2002.
- £100m
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advising on the consenting for all offshore and onshore infrastructure for North Falls Offshore Wind farm, an extension to the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm, which has a transmission entry capacity of up to 1GW.
- United Kingdom
- Renewables
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Providing all legal consenting advice on the Berwick Bank offshore wind farm, a 4.1GW project in the outer Firth of Forth, and the largest offshore wind farm under development anywhere in the UK.
- United Kingdom
- Renewables
Credentials
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2008Joined Pinsent Masons
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2006Northern Ireland Water (secondment), Lead Legal Adviser
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2004Dundas & Wilson, Senior Associate – Environment
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2003Scottish Government (secondment), Water Framework
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2002Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Solicitor
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1997Qualified - Scotland
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1995University of Edinburgh – Diploma in Legal Practice
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1994University of Edinburgh – LLB (Hons)
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