Planning
UK Guide 2025 : Scotland
Band 3
Contact number
(0131) 228 2400Chambers Review
Addleshaw Goddard has a highly experienced team that frequently advises clients on planning issues across the infrastructure, housing and retail sectors. It offers expertise in both contentious and non-contentious matters, including public hearings and inquiries, promoting development consent orders and providing strategic planning advice.
Work Highlights
- Addleshaw Goddard advised promoter and venue operator AEG on the development of a new arena at Edinburgh Park with a capacity for 8,500 visitors.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Addleshaw Goddard offer a great service. They explain things clearly and provide practical advice. The team is very good and responds very well."
"Addleshaw Goddard offer a great service. They explain things clearly and provide practical advice. The team is very good and responds very well."
Notable Practitioners
Sarah Baillie is head of Addleshaw Goddard's Scottish planning group and is well regarded for her planning expertise, particularly with regard to the energy and infrastructure, retail and housing sectors.
"She has the mark of a good planning lawyer, which is that she builds experience and is knowledgeable and forthcoming. She is very good. She understands the commercial realities and our business."
"I have been very happy with Sarah's work. She knows our business."
"She is a rare lawyer. I find her advice to be pretty straight down the line and her work to be invaluable."
Fiona Gordon is a legal director at Addleshaw Goddard. She is frequently engaged in both planning appeals and energy consenting matters. She has further experience acting on statutory appeals and judicial reviews.
"Fiona is very good."
"Fiona is great. I can pick up the phone and nine times out of ten she is ready to have a conversation with me."