We provide the highest quality skills and expertise for planning inquiries across a range of sectors. Unlike many of our national competitors, we do a lot of our own planning advocacy. Given the demands advocacy brings, this encourages a high level of trust between us and our clients.
Our lawyers work closely with clients to understand their business objectives and understand that although planning inquiries have a common procedure, there will be unique challenges that arise from each individual project that we advise upon. Our advice includes anticipation of risk of challenge through High Court appeals following planning inquiries.
We are experienced in providing planning advocacy that requires advice from a multi-disciplinary team of experts. We work regularly with specialist lawyers from our planning, real estate, construction and environmental teams. We also advise regularly and provide advocacy for related consent regimes in addition to planning inquiries.
Our team includes advocates with Higher Court Rights of Audience who are members of the Solicitors' Association of Higher Court Advocates (SAHCA).
Areas of focus
We have an established reputation for providing a high standard of planning advocacy in:
- Renewables.
- Minerals .
- Mixed-use developments.
- Compulsory purchase and compensation.
- Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).
- Common land.