Lee Gordon
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Planning
Band 2
About
Provided by Lee Gordon
Practice Areas
Lee heads the firm's national Planning & Infrastructure Consents team. He is a specialist planning solicitor and has considerable experience in all aspects of planning and related law.
Lee’s practice has a particular emphasis on major infrastructure & energy projects, strategic residential and regeneration schemes. He has notable DCO and compulsory purchase order experience, which includes leading teams advising on the promotion of orders for various major schemes.
Lee regularly advises in relation to strategic residential and new town developments, including complex planning agreements for multi-phase sites. He has notable knowledge of the complex area of environmental impact assessment law, local government powers and an enviable track record and experience in relation to judicial review challenges in a planning context.
Lee has advised on some of the highest value and complex projects in the country, including on the first major infrastructure project to be successfully promoted under the Planning Act 2008 and various other Development Consent Order applications, representing promoters, statutory undertakers, public bodies on energy, infrastructure and regeneration projects.
Chambers Review
UK
Lee Gordon advises on development consent and compulsory purchase orders relating to residential-led mixed-use developments and energy and transport infrastructure projects.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Lee provides a strong all-round service, is responsive to client requirements, and leads and supports well."
"I think Lee is an excellent solicitor. He has a really good brain and did a brilliant job. He dealt with the other side well and helped get to an agreement."
"Lee's drafting was really precise. Most people can't draft complicated legal documents but he certainly can. He was rigorous and very clever in his work; the clients loved him."
"Lee provides a strong all-round service, is responsive to client requirements, and leads and supports well."
"I think Lee is an excellent solicitor. He has a really good brain and did a brilliant job. He dealt with the other side well and helped get to an agreement."
"Lee's drafting was really precise. Most people can't draft complicated legal documents but he certainly can. He was rigorous and very clever in his work; the clients loved him."