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Planning & Environment - North West

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What the Team is Known For

Shoosmiths houses a respected planning team with a strong residential and mixed-use development offering. It regularly handles compulsory purchase and land assembly matters, as well as highway issues. The team has an enviable national client base including developers, retailers and local authorities.

Work Highlights

  • Shoosmiths advised Peel Land & Property on the planning aspects of its plans to develop a new community of over 1000 homes at Mosley common in Wycombe.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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David Mathias
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David Mathias
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Band 2

David Mathias frequently acts for local authorities on infrastructure projects, such as highway improvement schemes, with experience handling compulsory purchase orders. He also advises on residential development projects.

David Mathias' strength is his knowledge. He has such great experience.

Kathryn Jump
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Kathryn Jump
Head of Planning
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Band 2

Kathryn Jump frequently advises residential developers on large-scale housing and garden village projects. She offers experience handling compulsory purchase and highways-related matters as well as handling planning appeals.

Kathryn is practical and gives frank and effective advice.

Lisa Tye
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Lisa Tye
Head of Planning
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Band 2

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.

Lisa is very on top of the detail and takes a very practical, sensible, pragmatic approach.

Alex Jones
Associates to watch

Alex Jones is a highly regarded associate noted for her expertise in planning matters. She advises on matters including Section 106 agreements, planning agreements and biodiversity and conservation issues.

Alex very much works in the best interest of the client. She comes to us with recommendations on what we should do and she is very thorough.

Alex is extremely approachable, diligent and always gives commercially sensible advice.

Alex is an exceptional associate. She’s very well regarded.

Ranked Lawyers at
Shoosmiths LLP

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David Mathias
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David Mathias
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Band 2
Kathryn Jump
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Kathryn Jump
Head of Planning
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Band 2
Lisa Tye
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Lisa Tye
Head of Planning
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Band 2
Alex Jones
Associates to watch