Heidi Slater
Partner
Heidi is a specialist infrastructure planning lawyer, highly experienced in supporting public sector clients on their project work, with a particular focus on large scale infrastructure schemes and regeneration projects involving land assembly through compulsory purchase.
Heidi's experience
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Advising Worcestershire County Council on its proposed CPO, bridge scheme (under section 106 of the Highways Act 1980) and public path creation order(s) to facilitate the delivery of the Hampton Bridge scheme, linking the historic core of Evesham to a new sustainable urban expansion at Hampton, by crossing the river Avon.
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
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Advising Norfolk County Council on consent for major infrastructure projects, including: West Winch Housing Access Road, Norwich Western Link Scheme (TCPA 1990, Highways Act 1980), Great Yarmouth Third River Crossing (Herring Bridge), and Norwich Northern Distributor Road (Broadland Northway) (DCOs, Planning Act 2008).
- United Kingdom
- Planning & environment
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Advising National Highways (formerly Highways England) on its successful application for, and subsequent implementation of, a development consent order (DCO) for one of its largest and most complex infrastructure projects: the A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project (A66 NTP), a critical east-west corridor for freight and business traffic and for tourism in the North of England also identified by the Government as a key pathfinder project to accelerate important infrastructure projects.
- United Kingdom
- Infrastructure
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Advising bp on land assembly associated with the delivery of Net Zero Teeside, the UK’s first carbon capture project.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advising Westmorland and Furness Council on its regeneration proposals for the Marina Village Opportunity Area, a major strategic new housing project involving the prior remediation of a large brownfield site within Barrow-in-Furness, part of the Brilliant Barrow investment initiative.
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
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Advising Riverside Energy Park Limited, an energy facility developer, on the exercise of its compulsory acquisition powers under the Riverside Energy Park Order 2020, to enable the construction and operation of an integrated energy generating station.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advising Ebbsfleet Development Corporation on various funding agreements to facilitate redevelopment projects including the proposed Bean Tunnel, development at Northfleet, and the Ebbsfleet Garden City proposal.
- United Kingdom
- Infrastructure
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Advising a number of water companies on the land assembly aspects of proposals for new reservoirs and water recycling infrastructure, in support of the UK’s strategy to increase water security and resilience in the face of climate change and population increase.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advising Transport for London on its successful application for, and implementation of, a development consent order (DCO) for the Silvertown Tunnel scheme.
- £1bn
- United Kingdom
- Infrastructure
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Advising Suffolk County Council on its successful application for, and implementation of, a development consent order (DCO) for the Lake Lothing Third Crossing scheme, a new lifting bridge highway crossing (now named the Gull Wing Bridge) traversing the operational port of Lowestoft.
- United Kingdom
- Planning & environment
Credentials
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2023Made Partner at Pinsent Masons
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2011Joined Pinsent Masons
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2011Shoosmiths LLP - Associate
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2008Cobbetts Lee Crowder / Wilbraham & Co - Solicitor
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2003Qualified - England and Wales
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2003Lee Crowder, Birmingham - Trained
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2001University of De Montfort, University of Birmingham - Legal Practice Course (Distinction)
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1999University of Birmingham - Post Graduate Diploma in Law
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1992University of Nottingham - Post Graduate Certificate in Education
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1991University of Oxford, Wadham College - BA (Hons)
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