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Planning & Environment - Midlands

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What the Team is Known For

Pinsent Masons offers a planning team with particular expertise in complex housing, infrastructure and compulsory purchase work. It is also a leading firm in energy and transport planning, acting on a number of nationally significant DCO projects. The team regularly advises public and private clients on a regional and national basis, often on their most prominent projects.

Work Highlights

  • Pinsent Masons LLP advised Lendlease in its role as joint venture partner to Birmingham City Council for the redevelopment of the 17-hectare former wholesale markets in the centre of the City together with the current Indoor, Open and Rag markets as well as some surrounding land and buildings.

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Notable Practitioners

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Heidi Slater
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Heidi Slater is praised for her handling of planning, compulsory purchase and land assembly issues for major infrastructure projects. She advises both developers and local authorities.

They've been very good, and very knowledgeable.

Her work ethic is outstanding and her ability to get the job done on time, whatever the pressures and problems, is unrivalled.

Her dedication to our work is unparalleled and she manages to explain complex issues in a way that can be understood by all.

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Lucy Thomas
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Lucy Thomas frequently acts on compulsory purchases, planning agreements and highway matters concerning mixed-use developments, garden villages and regeneration projects. She comes highly recommended for her experience advising on nationally significant mandates.

Lucy is proactive, consistently providing clear and easy to understand advice.

Matthew Fox
Associates to watch

Matthew Fox specialises in the environmental, consent and design aspects of major infrastructure projects, including transport-related developments.

Matthew is highly dedicated, dynamic and easy to work with.

Matthew Fox is a rising star in the infrastructure world and a creative thinker and problem-solver.

Sophie Carlile
Associates to watch

Sophie Carlile acts on residential and mixed-use schemes, advising local authorities and house builders on compulsory purchase and Section 106 agreements.

Sophie is proactive, consistently providing clear and easy-to-understand advice.

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Heidi Slater
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Lucy Thomas
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Matthew Fox
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Sophie Carlile
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