Planning & Environmental
Pinsent Masons has a large team of specialist planning and environmental lawyers. Our planning team, in particular, enjoys an excellent reputation for helping clients to navigate this complex and fast changing area of law. The firm has developed a particular expertise in regeneration work, and our planning and environmental lawyers are central to this, advising on issues as diverse as compulsory purchase orders and the provision of affordable housing.
The team provides practical advice to numerous private sector and public sector bodies across a wide variety of projects. This advice includes:-
- applications for consent
- appeals
- enforcement
- prosecutions and defences
- areas of special control (e.g. listed buildings and conservation areas)
- development plans
- contaminated land
- integrated pollution control
- statutory nuisance
- environmental assessment
- infrastructure and planning agreements (and planning gain issues)
- highways and drainage law
- judicial review
- compulsory purchase
Recent Experience
