Planning & Infrastructure Consents

We provide an end‑to‑end service for major developments across the UK, and are recognised for helping clients secure and deliver complex planning and infrastructure consents on some of the UK’s most high‑profile development projects.

Our work spans high-value and complex developments across key growth sectors, including large-scale residential and new settlements, regeneration, commercial and industrial schemes, data centre developments, and energy and infrastructure projects.

We have extensive experience advising on planning appeals, examinations in public, Development Consent Orders (DCOs), Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPOs), Judicial Review and statutory challenges, as well as wider infrastructure consenting regimes.

Planning & Infrastructure Consents services

• Advising on planning applications and strategy across large scale residential, industrial and logistics, energy and infrastructure, waste and renewables, retail and commercial sectors.
• Acting in planning appeals, hearings and local plan examinations (including both undertaking our own advocacy and working with counsel as required).
• Managing DCO, CPO and Upper Tribunal matters.
• Supporting clients through Judicial Reviews and major planning challenges, including Court of Appeal work.
• Compulsory Purchase and powers of Appropriation.
• Planning and highways agreements.
• Highways law including stopping up, public rights of way issues, Highways Act powers and village green issues.
• Transactional work including planning due diligence, agreements conditional on planning and related consents, and CPO indemnity agreements.

Environment services

• Advising on environmental impact assessments, Habitat Regulations, Strategic Environmental Assessment and Water Framework Directive.
• Advising on environmental authorisations, licences and consents.
• Environmental due diligence.
• Working closely with our Regulatory team on environmental law.