Alice Whittaker

Practice Areas

Alice leads the Environment and Climate Group at Philip Lee. This specialist team of highly experienced lawyers focuses on planning, housing and infrastructure, environment, energy and climate law. The team advises multinational corporations, European energy utilities, banks and investors on a range of renewable energy projects and investments, infrastructure developments, acquisitions and joint ventures in the sustainable development sector. The Group is well known for its experience in the offshore and marine environment, working on offshore renewables, subsea fibre optic networks, interconnectors, ports and harbours. Alice has advised on major projects including the successful applications for the new National Children’s Hospital and new National Maternity Hospital, pending applications for the Dublin Array offshore wind farm, the re-development of the Port of Cork, and one of the first re-powering applications for a large onshore wind farm.

Alice is a key part of the firm’s Planning Team which acts as lead advisor to the Irish Planning Board, defending planning judicial review proceedings in the Irish and European Courts. Alice acted for the Board in the High Court and Supreme Court challenges to the grant of planning for Apple’s proposed large-scale data centre development, successfully defending the Board’s decision in both courts.