Sophie Walter
Managing Senior Associate
Sophie specialises in compulsory purchase orders and highways orders - acting for both local authorities and developers – enabling transport, regeneration and housing schemes.
Sophie can advise and has worked on a number of CPOs, having a leading role on many of them.
She has extensive experience on all stages of promoting and implementing a CPO and also has experience on Side Roads Orders and appropriation; key areas for delivering and de-risking projects.
Sophie's projects require her to work effectively with and project manage multidisciplinary client/expert teams, especially during the evidence and inquiry stages. She also regularly works alongside Counsel (generally KCs) often leading on their instruction.
Sophie 's experience
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Advising London Borough of Barnet concerning the structuring of a corporate joint venture for delivery of social housing in two phases at the Council’s flagship Grahame Park North East council housing estate.
- United Kingdom
- Real Estate
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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.
- £20m
- Real Estate
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