Carolyn Lord
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Planning
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Provided by Carolyn Lord
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Carolyn has over 30 years’ experience in planning and related areas of law. Carolyn has an excellent reputation for being thorough, pragmatic and personable. Carolyn takes pride in her ability to anchor and co-ordinate consultant teams but also to act as an effective team member.
Carolyn has particular expertise in advising on large or challenging sites with legal planning or highway complexities and she brings experienced, detailed involvement in and practical knowledge of the entire development process. Clients describe her as persistent in trouble-shooting and following a job through, coupled with focused attention to detail, effective strategic thinking and sensitive stakeholder management. She has worked across the country with a number of prominent developer and infrastructure clients on major brownfield and greenfield projects, including residential, commercial, education, leisure and retail, rail, waste and waste water, energy, minerals and aggregates-related work.
Chambers Review
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Carolyn Lord advises on major mixed-use development projects and regeneration schemes for developers and local authorities. She also represents clients in matters concerning infrastructure projects.
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Provided by Chambers
"She is incredibly well connected. She knows what's going on on the ground and is incredibly responsive and hard-working, but also gives you that commercial slant which is a rarity in planning advice."
"Carolyn really interprets the law and presents it in a form that's commercial and usable."
"Carolyn is fantastic. Her expertise, efficiency, dedication and commercial awareness are invaluable."
"Carolyn keeps plates spinning in a case with a lot of complex issues to allow the project to proceed. She gets things moving and does a very good job on the legal side."
"Carolyn is pragmatic, straight to the point and recognises putting the client's interests before the legalities of it all. She offers practical, hard-nosed advice and cuts through the legalese."
"She is incredibly well connected. She knows what's going on on the ground and is incredibly responsive and hard-working, but also gives you that commercial slant which is a rarity in planning advice."
"Carolyn really interprets the law and presents it in a form that's commercial and usable."
"Carolyn is fantastic. Her expertise, efficiency, dedication and commercial awareness are invaluable."
"Carolyn keeps plates spinning in a case with a lot of complex issues to allow the project to proceed. She gets things moving and does a very good job on the legal side."
"Carolyn is pragmatic, straight to the point and recognises putting the client's interests before the legalities of it all. She offers practical, hard-nosed advice and cuts through the legalese."
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