Catherine Howard
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Planning
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About
Provided by Catherine Howard
Practice Areas
Catherine has acted on a wide range of commercial development projects in London, advising on all aspects of the planning process including planning strategy, referrals to the GLA and Secretary of State, approach to environmental impact assessment, stopping up, freedom of information requests, and minimising risk of judicial review.
Through her work on major infrastructure projects, Catherine has developed expertise in many areas of law which are essential to supporting the success of large scale developments. Alongside her core expertise in steering applications through the town and country planning process, she is well known for her in-depth understanding of compulsory purchase and land assembly, highway law and traffic regulation, the over-riding of third party rights to facilitate development, and diversion of major services and utilities to accommodate new developments.
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Catherine Howard has a substantial practice in London-based commercial developments, as well as energy and infrastructure projects throughout the UK. She is adept at handling development consent and compulsory purchase orders, planning strategy and agreements, and preparing for challenges.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She always offers well-considered advice. She is a super team leader and also great to fun to work with."
"Catherine is so good. She is super pragmatic and she gets to grips with really complex matters very quickly. She is amazing."
"She always offers well-considered advice. She is a super team leader and also great to fun to work with."
"Catherine is so good. She is super pragmatic and she gets to grips with really complex matters very quickly. She is amazing."
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