Jonathan is a planning and consenting lawyer specialising in major infrastructure and energy projects.

Jonathan regularly advises local authorities, promoters, host authorities and interested parties on nationally significant and major infrastructure projects. His experience includes advising on compulsory acquisition and compensation, statutory order drafting, public consultation, environmental impact and habitats regulation assessment, examination procedure and negotiations with third parties. 

Jonathan's experience

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Advising local client Cannock Chase District Council on its promotion of a compulsory purchase order to support the implementation of a comprehensive mixed-use re-development of Cannock town center, under an award of £20m Levelling Up funding from central government, targeting improvements in economic and social well-being.

Out-Law / Insight by Jonathan Leary

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