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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).

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Planning - North West
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Band 2
What the Team is Known For

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

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  • 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

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Notable Practitioners

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David Mathias
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David Mathias
2
Band 2

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
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Kathryn Jump
Head of Planning
2
Band 2

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
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Lisa Tye
Head of Planning
2
Band 2

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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Planning

David Mathias
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David Mathias
2
Band 2
Kathryn Jump
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Kathryn Jump
Head of Planning
2
Band 2
Lisa Tye
2
Lisa Tye
Head of Planning
2
Band 2

Members

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Kathryn Jump

Kathryn Jump

Head of Department

Lisa Tye

Lisa Tye

Head of Department

Clients

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Ainscough Strategic Land Limited

London Borough of Hackney

Peel Holdings

Select Property/Vita Ventures Limited

Story Homes Limited