Planning
UK Guide 2025 : North West
Band 2
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Provided by Shoosmiths LLP
The planning maze can often be confusing but Shoosmiths’ planning team has a wealth of experience in supporting private and public sector clients on all aspects of planning, highways and compulsory purchase law, balancing their strategic objectives with the various demands placed upon them by the planning system.
Our specialist team has worked with commercial and residential developers, investors, retail and leisure operators, social housing bodies, major corporate occupiers, banks and other funders and a range of public sector bodies on some of the UK's most complex and challenging urban regeneration schemes, along with mixed use, residential, retail and private rented sector (PRS) developments.
Whether it is general planning advice, the drafting of infrastructure agreements or strategic planning advice to facilitate delivery of complex mixed use schemes, our team has a significant knowledge and expertise to help our clients get the deal done. Our approach is always to look forward and anticipate potential planning policy and statutory changes, and to assist in the interpretation of existing policy, such as the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
Chambers Review
Shoosmiths houses a respected planning team with a strong residential and mixed-use development offering. It regularly handles compulsory purchase and land assembly matters, as well as highway issues. The team has an enviable national client base including developers, retailers and local authorities.
Work Highlights
- Shoosmiths acted as the strategic adviser for the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in connection with the £850 million Cambridge Road Estate Regeneration Scheme.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Shoosmiths has excellent knowledge and breadth of team."
"The planning team have a very strong capability and experience of complex matters. They are highly responsive and work well to time pressures."
"Shoosmiths offers a strong team from partners to associates, giving clients the confidence of support across the project."
"Shoosmiths has excellent knowledge and breadth of team."
"The planning team have a very strong capability and experience of complex matters. They are highly responsive and work well to time pressures."
"Shoosmiths offers a strong team from partners to associates, giving clients the confidence of support across the project."
Notable Practitioners
David Mathias frequently acts for local authorities on infrastructure projects, such as highway improvement schemes, with experience handling compulsory purchase orders. He also advises on residential development projects.
"David is a very careful and astute lawyer."
Kathryn Jump frequently advises residential developers on large-scale housing and garden village projects. She offers experience handling compulsory purchase and highways-related matters as well as handling planning appeals.
"Kathryn is very personable."
"Kathryn provides outstanding service and is an extremely capable and great team leader."
Lisa Tye often advises on large regeneration schemes for public and private sector clients, with notable strength in development consent orders, compulsory purchase matters and Section 106 agreements.
"Lisa gets in the trenches with us if we have a real issue."
"Lisa provides excellent client service, is very committed and is good fun to work with."
"Lisa deals with complex cases in constructive, sensible and effective ways."
Ranked Lawyers at
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Clients
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Allied London
EG Group
Kellen Homes
Peel Holdings
Wirral Growth Company