Planning
Hamlins Planning Law team provides clients and stakeholders with specialist planning advice across infrastructure, development, and regeneration schemes.
As market conditions change and legislation and case law evolves, it is clear that development, regeneration and infrastructure projects are becoming increasingly complex. We provide expert advice and support which helps planning projects keep pace and supports our clients in navigating a clear route through planning.
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“Martha is a force of nature. From the quality of the projects she has been involved in in key sites across London and regionally, it is clear Martha is operating at a very high level and handling complex, high value and high-profile planning cases.”
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“Martha is a champion for determination and willpower. She relishes complex projects where she can make a real difference, which really sets her apart from her peers. She sees solutions where others see problems but, crucially, she fosters a real spirit of collaboration throughout the team, which allows people to mobilise around her towards a common goal.”
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“Martha is a committed and hard-working barrister who is relentlessly focused on understanding and fighting for the client’s requisites and ambitions. Throughout the process, she has shown an amazing dedication and unconditional support to the project. Martha brings intelligence, pragmatism and professionalism and a much needed analytical and methodical approach. She is also fun to work with and has a great attitude toward creating and maintaining good interpersonal relationships.”
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Our Planning team provides strategic and practical advice on planning promotion, planning applications, development consent orders, planning agreements, compulsory purchase and infrastructure agreements.
We support clients throughout the lifecycle of a project, from site acquisition and promotion through to delivery and implementation.
The team offers a full range of services including:
- Tactical and strategic planning promotion advice through the Town and Country Planning regime
- Advice in delivery of complex schemes requiring Development Consent Orders (DCOs) or Transport and Works Act Orders (TWAOs)
- Legal robustness in health checking of planning applications and environmental impact assessments
- Drafting and negotiating planning agreements and related infrastructure agreements
- Advice on compulsory purchase and compensation
- Advice on Community Infrastructure Levy
- Preparation for and project management of major planning inquiries and examinations
- Strategic conduct of appeal court proceedings, including judicial review and statutory appeals
- Advice on implementation and modification and release of planning conditions
- Technical advice on highways, rights of way and town and village green issues
- Advice on heritage issues including listed buildings/conservation area controls
- Advice on contaminated land and environmental regulatory issues
- Advice on lawful development certificates and advertisement consents
- Advice and conduct of planning enforcement
- Advocacy at public inquires and hearings.
Our planning team is part of our wider team of real estate specialists who can offer clients the full complement of real estate services, including commercial property investment and development, finance, litigation and construction.