Will Thomas

Practice Areas

Will specialises in planning and compulsory purchase law. He acts for public and private sector organisations, including land promoters, developers, investors, landowners, local planning authorities and government bodies.

He is recognised in both the Legal 500 and Chambers as an expert in planning law and enjoys steering clients through the complicated planning system with clear and commercial advice.

Will has over 10 years’ experience advising on a range of planning matters, including complex s106 agreements, planning appeals, planning land use advice and due diligence, biodiversity net gain requirements, High Court challenges, development consent orders and compulsory purchase orders.

Will’s experience includes advising on the full spectrum of land types and schemes; namely, strategic land, immediate development and regeneration projects. He is particularly adept at dealing with complex s106 agreements at the strategic land stage, as well as overseeing land assembly and compulsory purchase elements of brown-field regeneration schemes.

Will has been quoted several times in Planning magazine, Property Week and Estates Gazette. He also works closely with the RTPI and splits his time across the Nottingham and Birmingham offices.