Lisa Tye
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Planning
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About
Provided by Lisa Tye
Practice Areas
Lisa is a partner and joint-head of Shoosmiths’ planning and CPO team, driving the team’s growth forward across the UK.
An experienced planning lawyer, she acts on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious planning matters, including highways matters and compulsory purchase work, drafting and negotiating complex Section 106 agreements, judicial review, footpath/highway closures, infrastructure agreements and village green issues.
She has acted for a mix of public and private clients, including North West Development Agency, Ainscough Strategic Land, Ask Developments, United Utilities, Tesco and the Co-operative Group.
Lisa’s recent project experience includes advising:
- Ainscough Strategic Land on a planning appeal and public inquiry for a 2,300 dwelling scheme in Swindon as part of the New Eastern Villages allocation;
- Vastint on planning and CPO issues in relation to their major mixed use schemes in London, Leeds and Cardiff;
- Story Homes on numerous residential development schemes across the north west; and
- Kingston Council on the regeneration of the Cambridge Road Estate, a major scheme to provide over 2000 new dwellings for the Borough’s residents.
Chambers Review
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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.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"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."
"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."