Planning is a complex and specialist area involving numerous stakeholders. Whatever your part in the process, our insight, innovation and experience means we can help you navigate the planning regimes with confidence.
Our advisers act on domestic and international matters of all shapes and sizes, working with many of the leading names in the market. Browse our experience below, or use the filters to look-up recent work in particular geographies and industry sectors.
Advising Buckminster Estate, promoter of the 3,400-home Spitalgate Heath Garden Community, on planning and development strategy, including masterplanning, planning applications, viability, infrastructure and energy proposals, and drafting the stewardship strategy and associated planning obligations for the long-term management of the community.
Advising Tilt Renewables on the planning and environmental issues associated with the Rye Park Wind Farm, the Liverpool Range Wind Farm, the Palmer Wind Farm and the Boco Rock Wind Farm.
Advising Northern Trust Land on West Winch, a significant housing development within South East King’s Lynn Strategic Growth Area. We are advising on the planning strategy and Framework Agreements required to unlock key infrastructure delivery, including the spine road needed to support the wider development.
Advised a public sector development corporation on a complex, multi-party land and infrastructure arrangement for a new transport tunnel, including the tunnel lease, property and construction interfaces, pre-emption risk, completion conditions, stakeholder arrangements and registration requirements.
Advised Veolia, an environmental services and waste management company, on a range of environmental and planning issues relating to several waste projects.
Advised Thames Water on strategic, planning and consenting aspects of a significant water transfer project, including on regulatory submissions.
Advised the Humelink West Joint Venture on planning and environmental issues related to the Humelink Transmission Project in New South Wales.
Advising Port of Tilbury London Limited, a major UK port operator, on port development and expansion, from the successful Tilbury 2 DCO for a new aggregates and RoRo port (2019) through to the Tilbury 3 planning consent (2026), including protecting its interests against third party infrastructure proposals affecting its land.
Advised the UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on a planning application for a London memorial and learning centre, including redetermination following judicial review, legislative changes enabling development, updates to the application and environmental impact assessment, design options addressing parliamentary assurances, and preparing representations for the redetermination process
Advising Latimer on a residential-led development Green Belt development of up to 700 homes. Following policy changes, we developed a planning strategy based on Grey Belt and very special circumstances arguments. Our advice has included a stewardship strategy for the proposed country park and wider development.
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EmailMike is an experienced planning lawyer who specialises in providing strategic and commercial planning advice across the development, energy and infrastructure sectors from both a private and public sector perspective.
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EmailNick advises on planning, infrastructure consenting and compulsory purchase, including on projects of regional and national significance.
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EmailJennifer is a property and consenting specialist who heads up the Energy & Infrastructure team within our UK Property Group.
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EmailJan Bessell specialises in Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects and major development. Her main focus is providing strategic planning advice on the Planning Act 2008 consenting and delivery process as well as other major development consenting processes and environmental matters.
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EmailClaire specialises in consenting major energy and infrastructure projects, including offshore wind, utility scale solar, electricity interconnectors, electricity transmission and distribution network improvements and pipelines. Claire also has extensive experience of promoting compulsory purchase orders and compensation claims.
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EmailKevin is one of Ireland’s leading real estate lawyers specialising in property and energy transactions. He advises developers, investors and funders on all aspects of real estate development, investment and financing including site assembly, leasing, asset management, access and services.
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EmailBridget specialises in technology procurement and sourcing projects involving tech-enabled services or with an outsourcing component.
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EmailRichard co-leads our Garden Communities team, advising on over 30 Garden Communities across the UK. He specialises in the full life cycle for Garden Communities projects, and Locally Led New Town Development Corporations and other delivery vehicles. With Stewardship, he advises on data trusts for Garden Communities to achieve ESG outcomes.
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EmailMichael provides regulatory and strategic advice on major commercial and infrastructure projects and transactions within the global nuclear sector, as well as standalone regulatory advice on the key areas of nuclear regulation
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EmailIain’s practice focusses on large scale residential led and mixed use schemes in London and nationally – including tall tower schemes – new garden communities, green belt and grey-belt projects, sports stadia, data centres, life science and campus projects
Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has appointed Sarah Derbyshire as General Counsel.
Orbital has built specific workflows for Scottish commercial real estate work, built around Scots Law and Scottish real estate practice
Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has advised Penta Real Estate on its investment into a landmark £230 million-plus joint venture with Staycity Group and advised the joint venture on the financing arrangements for the development, which will deliver a 350-room Wilde aparthotel in the heart of London's Farringdon district.