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Partners

Clare Fielding

Duncan Field

Partner duncan.field@townlegal.com 07778 487817

Duncan advises on major infrastructure projects and regeneration schemes around the UK. He was previously head of planning law at Norton Rose Fulbright and was also a specialist planning partner at Wragge & Co and SJ Berwin. Duncan led the team that won the Real Estate Team of the Year at the British Legal Awards in 2016 and Planning Law Firm of the Year at the UK Planning Awards in 2017.

Experience:

London City Airport
Advising on the development of the airport over the past 25 years including the recent increase in the annual passenger limit from 6.5 million to 9 million passengers and the expansion of the airport’s infrastructure through the City Airport Development Programme.

The Crown Estate
Advising on policy and regulatory aspects of The Crown Estate’s offshore wind leasing rounds including in relation to energy policy and legislation, Habitats Regulations Assessment and Marine Conservation Zones.

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
Advising on the expansion of The Home of Rolls-Royce headquarters and manufacturing plant at Goodwood near Chichester.

Olympus Property Holding Limited
Advising on the redevelopment of the London Olympia Exhibition Centre to deliver improved exhibition and conferencing facilities, offices, hotel accommodation, retail, leisure and new cultural uses.

Ada Infrastructure
Advising on the proposed Docklands Data Centre Campus in West Silvertown, East London.

The Crown Estate
Advising on its regeneration programme for Regent Street and St James’s in Central London over a 20-year period involving the development of landmark buildings for a mix of uses including retail, offices, hotels, residential and extensive public realm improvements.

Hinduja Group and OHL Desarrollos
Acting for the Hinduja/OHL joint venture in relation to the redevelopment of the Old War Office in Whitehall, Central London as a luxury hotel with apartments.

Elizabeth Christie

Louise Samuel

Partner louise.samuel@townlegal.com 07920 041941

Louise was Head of Planning at Linklaters before joining Town in October 2019. She has over 20 years’ experience that includes iconic tall buildings (eg. the Gherkin, Cheesegrater, Walkie-Talkie), global HQs (eg. UBS, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs), energy projects and town extensions.

Louise has a particularly strong central London practice. She loves a tall building, a smart hotel, re-use of heritage assets and complex masterplans. Louise understands the politics of planning and the need for great teamwork to effectively navigate the challenges.

Experience:

BentallGreenOak
105 Victoria Street, Westminster; Farringdon Road Estate, Islington; Bury House and Bury Street, City of London

Brookfield
Milton Gate and 99 Bishopsgate, City of London

CIT Group
Finsbury Tower (HYLO) and Garrett Street, Islington; Vinegar Yard and Colechurch House, Southwark; Grosvenor Gardens House, Westminster

Great Portland Estates plc
New City Court, St Thomas Yards and Minerva House, Southwark; 50 Finsbury Square, Islington; Soho Square Estate and French Railways House, Westminster

Henigman
Savile Row Police Station, Westminster

Hines
18 Blackfriars Road (The Round), Southwark

Nuveen
40 Leadenhall (Gotham City) and 40 Holborn Viaduct, City of London

Native Land
Neo Bankside and Bankside Yards, Southwark; St Mary’s Wharf, Guildford; Judd Street, Camden; Burlington Gate, Kilmuir House and 136 Marylebone, Westminster; Holland Park Villas and Cheyne Terrace, RBKC

The Other House
Covent Garden and the former Belgravia Police Station, Westminster; and South Kensington, RBKC

Park Plaza Hotel Group
Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth; Victoria, Westminster; and Western Avenue, OPDC and Ealing

The Ritz (London) Limited
The Ritz, Westminster

Martyn Jarvis

Partner martyn.jarvis@townlegal.com 07385 502 315

Martyn joined Town at the beginning of 2025 from Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, where he practiced for 9 years. Martyn has significant experience advising on all aspects of complex major mixed-use regeneration projects and the promotion and delivery of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects. He has been consistently ranked as a Leading Associate for Planning in London in the Legal 500.

Experience

LandSec U+I
Advising on proposals for Project Hartree, the redevelopment of a new urban quarter in Cambridge that will include approximately 5,600 homes, shops, workplaces, education, community and leisure facilities, and open spaces across 48 hectares of brownfield land.

BL CW Holdings Limited (British Land)
Advising on proposals for the Canada Water Masterplan in Southwark, a 53 acre major mixed use regeneration project.

AQUIND Limited
Advising on the promotion of AQUIND Interconnector Order seeking development consent for a 2GW underground and subsea interconnector between the UK and France on all aspects of the DCO promotion. Most recently Martyn has advised on novel issues and procedure associated with the redetermination of the DCO application.

British Land Property Management Limited
Advising on proposals to redevelop Euston Tower and in relation to the redevelopment of 1 Triton Square.

Gatwick Airport Limited
Advising Gatwick Airport Limited on their NSIP proposals for the expansion of the airport through dual runway operations,.

Lazari Investments Limited
Advising Lazari Investments Limited on various redevelopment proposals across London, including in relation to the redevelopment of the Fenwick Building on New Bond Street in Westminster.

The Madison Square Garden Company
Providing strategic planning advice on the proposals for the MSG Sphere London, a state-of-the-art 21,500 capacity music and entertainment venue with an illuminated external façade in Stratford City.

NNB Generation Company (HPC) Limited
Advising NNB Generation Company (HPC) Limited on its proposals for a material change to the DCO authorising the Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station, principally on addressing complex issues associated with the delivery of habitat compensation measures within the terrestrial and marine environments.

Legal & General and Sine QN
Advising in connection with proposals for a 77MW hyperscale data centre and supporting energy centre, including proposals for recycling heat for district heating projects, within the London Docklands in the London Borough of Newham.

London Underground Limited / Transport for London
Advising on proposals for the new Bakerloo Line ticket hall as part of the Paddington Cube redevelopment at London Paddington Station and on proposals for the redevelopment of Liverpool Street Station and the Andaz Hotel and the interface with Liverpool Street Underground Station.

Meeta Kaur

Paul Arnett

Raj Gupta

Simon Ricketts

Partner simon.ricketts@townlegal.com 07711 924945

Simon specialises in planning law issues in relation to major mixed-use development schemes across England. Before co-founding Town, he was head of planning and environmental law first at SJ Berwin and then King & Wood Mallesons. He has been ranked as the country’s most highly rated planning solicitor for the last sixteen years running in Planning magazine’s annual survey. He is author of the Simonicity planning law blog.

Experience:

British Land
Advising on all planning law aspects of British Land’s recently completed Norton Folgate project in Shoreditch, a 330,000 sq ft mixed use scheme approved by the Mayor of London following call-in. The work included successfully resisting a legal challenge.

Oxford University Development
Advising a joint venture between the University of Oxford and Legal & General on all planning law aspects of the proposed Begbroke Innovation District project north of Oxford, comprising around 1,800 new homes, half of them affordable, and up to 155,000 sq m of flexible research space, together with schools and open space. The project secured resolution to grant from Cherwell District Council in September 2024.

Waterbeach Development Company LLP
Advising a joint venture between Royal London and Turnstone Estates on all planning law aspects of the Waterbeach New Town East project, comprising 4,500 homes and associated development. The project secured outline planning permission in December 2024.

Stansted Airport
Advising Manchester Airport Group on its successful planning appeal in 2021 against Uttlesford District Council’s refusal (contrary to officers’ recommendations) of its proposal to increase its passenger cap from 35 to 43 million a year to secure an increased Increase in passenger numbers. The work included securing a full award of costs and successfully resisting a legal challenge.

London Eye
Advising Merlin Entertainments on all planning law aspects of its successful application for permanent retention of the London Eye, approved by the London Borough of Lambeth in May 2024.

Worcestershire Parkway
Advising Summix and Homes England on the promotion of Worcestershire Parkway as a new settlement of up to around 10,000 homes and associated development, in the context of the emerging South Worcestershire local plan

Quinn Estates
Advising Quinn Estates on its called in applications for planning permission for Highsted Park, Sittingbourne, a project comprising approximately 8,400 homes and associated development. A public inquiry commenced in March 2025.

Spencer Tewis-Allen

Partner spencer.tewis-allen@townlegal.com 07931 870540

Spencer advises on all aspects of planning law and has acted on schemes which are complex, high profile and often contentious with a strategic mind and focus on viability matters.

Spencer is a build to rent and alternative resi sector (student and co-living) sector expert, extremely well-connected in that sector and fully understands the model, including forward fund transactions.

Experience:

Battersea Power Station Development Company
Advising the owners of Battersea Power Station on its £8 billion regeneration, one of the country’s most complex and high-profile development projects which includes an extensive residential, office and retail offering as well as associated infrastructure such as a new tube station.

John Lewis Partnership
Acting for JLP in respect of their Build-to-Rent development portfolio, including successful West Ealing planning appeal (2025) for a new Waitrose store and circa 430 BtR units above and also planning applications submitted in respect of redevelopments in Bromley, London and Reading, Berkshire.

Capital and Regional
Acting for Capital and Regional on the development of The Mall, Walthamstow – a real place maker in Walthamstow including two tall towers for BtR (for Long Harbour).

Greystar
Acting for Greystar on a number of their prestigious development sites including: BtR scheme Lombard Road (Wandsworth): student resi scheme at Capital House (Southwark); BtR scheme at One Lansdowne (Croydon).

Socius/First Base
Advising on BtR development at Saxon Court, Milton Keynes which will include a 34-storey tower.

London Square
Advising across multiple developments, including Leegate Shopping Centre, Lewisham and in relation to the redevelopment of Vulcan Wharf, Stratford which includes 5 blocks of development and successfully advising in relation to S1/S11 Stratford Cross to achieve a build-to-rent development and forward funding model.

Galliard
Advising on a number of key developments including Soho Loop, Birmingham, Former Honey Monster Factory (Ealing), Creekside, Deptford Wharf (Lewisham), Lower Essex St (BtR development in B’ham) and the redevelopment of the Leegate Centre (Lewisham) and, in partnership with DS Real Estate, advising on successful planning appeal (2025) for the redevelopment of The Point, Milton Keynes.

Amro Partners
Advising on their BtR scheme for circa 450 units across two towers up to 39 storeys in height at the Croydon Park Hotel site, development of Quadrant House, Sutton and Lewisham Retail Park.

Donard Group
Advising Donard in respect of its BtR development portfolio across many sites including Crown Gardens, Woking; Ironmongers site in Rochester, Kent; Andover, Hampshire, Basildon, Essex and York Gate, Bristol.

Westrock & Platform_
Advising on a number of BtR schemes including: the redevelopment of Bank House, Milton Keynes for 350 BtR units which was successfully granted planning on appeal in July 2024 by the Planning Inspectorate; Crawley Town Hall scheme; and a 1500 residential-led BtR mixed use development in Holbeck, Leeds.

Apache/Present Made
Advising on new housing development and country park scheme known as Mill View, Central Bedfordshire, a 68-ha site including BtR phases and redevelopment of Kingston Gate, Kingston.

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing
Advising on the Former Shredded Wheat factory masterplan development site in Welwyn Hatfield for up to 1,500 dwellings and associated infrastructure.

Victoria McKeegan

Partner victoria.mckeegan@townlegal.com 07778 487920 | 020 3893 0410

Victoria trained and qualified at Slaughter and May and then worked with Duncan Field in the Planning Team at Norton Rose Fulbright prior to joining Town in 2019. She acts on a wide range of planning matters including planning applications, planning appeals, drafting and negotiating planning and highways agreements, environmental impact assessment, judicial review/statutory challenge, enforcement and heritage matters, and the planning aspects of real estate, corporate and financing transactions. She works on projects both in Central London and further afield.

Experience:

Olympus Property Holding Limited
Advising on the £1 billion redevelopment and refurbishment of the London Olympia Exhibition Centre which will deliver improved exhibition and conferencing facilities, offices, hotel accommodation, retail, leisure, entertainment and new cultural uses.

Hinduja Group and OHL Desarrollos
Acting for the Hinduja Group and OHL Desarrollos joint venture in relation to the redevelopment of this Grade II* building in Central London as a luxury hotel with apartments.

The Crown Estate
Advising on a number of redevelopment schemes in London’s West End, including St James’s Market Phase 2 and 33-35 Piccadilly, and on other matters across The Crown Estate’s portfolio.

BentallGreenOak
Advising in relation to the redevelopment of ‘Southside’, 105 Victoria Street (the former ‘Army and Navy’ store) in Westminster for a 445,000 sq ft ultra sustainable office-led development.

The Berkeley Group
Advising St William Homes on a number of major residential-led developments at former gasholder sites in London including the development of up to 1,450 homes at the former Bow Common Gasworks in Tower Hamlets. Advising St Joseph Homes in relation to a planning appeal for a site near Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, for 1,375 homes.

London City Airport
Advising on the development of the airport including its latest infrastructure project known as the City Airport Development Programme and on recent proposals for an increase in capacity to 9 million passengers per annum and extended operating hours.

Telford Homes
Advising on the proposed development of a site on International Way, Stratford, for two towers of 27 storeys comprising 380 BTR units and the proposed mixed-use development of a major site in Chapel Place, Ilford for 837 homes, 447 PBSA units and commercial floorspace.

The Portfolio Club
Advising in relation to the redevelopment of the Wellington Block, Covent Garden, and the former Belgravia Police Station, Ebury Square, in Westminster for ‘The Other House’ Residents’ Club.

Native Land
Advising in relation to the 310,000 sq ft redevelopment of St Mary’s Wharf, Guildford (on the site of the former Debenhams department store) for 185 homes, retail, restaurant and business space along with public riverside walkway and gardens.

London Borough of Islington
Advising the Council in relation to the redevelopment of The Barnsbury Estate for over 900 homes, being delivered by Mount Anvil and Newlon.

Chair

Michael Gallimore

Consultants

Mary Cook

Consultant mary.cook@townlegal.com 07909 964015

Mary is a leading planning barrister and part of the original panel of the Have We Got Planning News For You show. Prior to Town she was a member of Cornerstone Barristers where she served as Joint Head of Chambers. She is one of Town’s founding partners and now works as a consultant, both advising clients directly and working alongside the partners. She is a regular sounding board on a wide range of issues.

Experience

Development Schemes & Strategic Land Advice
Mary offers strategic advice on the promotion of regeneration schemes, in the course of changing policy contexts, testing the robustness of the planning strategy and ultimately shaping the timing of land promotion/ planning applications. During the course of her career Mary has advised regeneration agencies, development corporations and other public bodies promoting regeneration. She has promoted a variety of successful CPOs. At Town Mary steers both public and private sector clients through the complex development management processes including the strategy around multiphase development and section 96A/73 processes to achieve scheme delivery whilst avoiding challenges and appeals. She has considerable experience in schemes involving technical issues of flood risk, protected species and their environments, BNG, daylight and sunlight assessments, complex transport assessments as well as statutory and locally listed buildings and conservation areas. She is currently very much focused on advice to the public and private sector on grey belt issues.

Local Plan Examinations & Neighbourhood Plans
Most recently she has promoted a significant new garden village at York, securing its release from the Green Belt, obtained an allocation for a residential omission site in West Berkshire. She advised on viability issues relating to the Cranbrook Local plan in Devon; the redevelopment of previously developed land in the AONB and Green Belt in Kent; allocations for a commercial warehouse and a Rail Freight Terminal in the Green Belt in Central Bedfordshire; and urban extensions in Leicestershire and the Black Country and working to secure numerous housing allocations. She has successfully steered a Joint Local Plan through examination and offered strategic advice to groups of authorities.

Appeals
Mary has particular experience in identifying and testing the robustness of evidence required in support of all appeals across a wide range of diverse sectors. She continues to act for a wide range of clients on all modes of appeals.

Steve Quartermain CBE

Legal Director

Juliet Munn

Legal Director juliet.munn@townlegal.com 07377 340199

Juliet is a Legal Director at Town, having qualified at King & Wood Mallesons (formerly SJ Berwin) in 2011 and worked in the planning and environment teams in both London and Sydney. Juliet acts on both contentious and non-contentious matters for developers, landowners, interest groups and corporate bodies and advises on all aspects of planning law.

Experience

Watkin Jones

Acting on the successful appeal of the Battersea Park Road PBSA scheme including negotiating the Section 106 Agreement.

Quinn Estates

Advising Quinn Estate on a 12 week call-in inquiry for 8,400 homes (and associated uses) in Sittingbourne, Swale, the largest ever residential planning inquiry.

Mount Anvil

Advising on the estate regeneration at Friar Close in Southwark including, reviewing the planning application, negotiating the Section 106 Agreement and advising on CIL strategy.

Brookfield

Advising Brookfield on two large office schemes in the City of London including strategic advice throughout the planning application process, dealing with various planning issues such as a highways and negotiating the Section 106 Agreements.

Imperial College

Advising on the Section 106 negotiations for the large mixed use scheme at 1 Portal Way, North Action, OPDC.

Firethorn Group

Advising on a significant number of Firethorn Projects including on the appeal of a 530 home ecotown in North West Bicester and the redevelopment of the Blueprint Site in the London Borough of Ealing.

British Land

Advising on a number of planning applications for the development at 5 Kingdom Street in Westminster, the last remaining plot in the British Land Paddington Campus including advising on CIL and completing a number of Section 106 agreements for both office and logistics schemes.

Ashfield Partnership

Advising on all aspects of a residential let urban extension in Romsey, Hampshire.

Pella

Advising on the redevelopment of 81 Newgate Street in the City of London including provision of CIL advice and the completion of a number of Section 106 Agreements.

City of London Airport

Advising on the planning inquiry in respect of an increase in passenger numbers and operating hours.

Senior Associates

Amy Fender

Senior Associate amy.fender@townlegal.com 07950 399906 | 0203 893 0394

Amy has acted for a variety of clients, including large commercial developers, local authorities and funders in respect of both contentious and non-contentious work in London and across the UK. Her experience includes legal analysis of planning applications, drafting and negotiating planning and highways agreements for a variety of developments, including large scale mixed use and multi-phased schemes, planning appeals and judicial review claims.

Experience:

U+I
Advising in relation to the multi-phased redevelopment of 8 Albert Embankment which included Lambeth Fire Station, from submission and throughout the Secretary of State’s call-in of the application.

Vistry Partnership
Negotiating the s.106 agreement in relation to Phase 1 of the Meridian Water scheme in Enfield.

Battersea Power Station Development Company
Providing strategic advice and drafting the planning and highways agreements concerning the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station.

AXA
Advising on all planning and highway matters relating to the 62-storey 22 Bishopsgate, recently opened in the City of London. This has included advising on all planning matters associated with the pre-letting of the building.

Mount Anvil
Advising in relation to a large mixed-use phased development in Ealing, in relation to the original permission and s.106 agreement and strategy to amend and enhance the scheme further.

Quantum Group
Advising in connection with the three week public inquiry for a new extra care community with open space and sports facilities in the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames.

North Warfield Consortium
Providing strategic planning advice to a consortium of developers and drafting the planning agreement in respect of an application for a large mixed-use scheme in Bracknell.

Carina Wentzel

Senior Associate carina.wentzel@townlegal.com 0755 1375092

Carina joined Town in October 2024 having previously worked at Byran Cave Leighton Paisner LLP and Norton Rose Fulbright LLP. She has extensive experience in advising on a range of contentious, non-contentious and transaction mandates (including planning enforcement and compulsory purchase and compensation).

Experience:

Private developer
Advising on proposals to redevelop five office blocks within a partially built 400,000+ sqm mixed use scheme to deliver student accommodation and flexible office/education uses.

Berliet Limited
Advising on the redevelopment of four linked sites to deliver up to 550 residential units, with EIA considerations.

Hotchkiss Limited
Acting on the s.106 agreement for a scheme involving the redevelopment of a petrol station on the Albert Embankment to deliver an 872-bed hotel, with ancillary facilities, as well as the retention and refurbishment of an existing office building.

International retailer
Advising on the strategy to secure the withdrawal of an advertisement discontinuance notice concerning a two-storey digital display at a flagship store on Oxford Street.

Bellaview Properties Limited
Advising on an objection to a proposed Transport and Works Act Order (with compulsory purchase powers) promoted by Network Rail, with attendance at a 5-day public inquiry. In parallel, advising on a s.106 unilateral undertaking for a mixed-use builders merchants and residential scheme (185 unit) in respect of the same site.

VMM Limited
Advising on a parallel application and appeal strategy concerning the refurbishment and two-storey extension of an existing office building in a conservation area, with planning permission ultimately granted at appeal.

Private individual
Advising on a rare discretionary purchase compensation claim involving National Highway’s proposed A27 Arundel bypass.

Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
Acting on the s.106 agreement required in connection with an appeal concerning the redevelopment of Hawkhurst Golf Club in an area of outstanding natural beauty, with evidence at the public inquiry.

Investment manager focussed on renewables
Advising on the planning aspects of a joint venture to construct and operate 5GW of solar energy generation and battery storage projects across the UK.

Chris Todman

Senior Associate chris.todman@townlegal.com 07733 518838

Chris works on a wide range of developments in London and across the country, specialising in major mixed-use, residential, commercial and life sciences redevelopment schemes. Chris advises on all aspects of planning law with particular experience in drafting and negotiating planning and highways agreements, and strategic and development management issues.

Prior to joining Town in 2021, Chris worked in local government for eight years, most recently for Westminster City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, with earlier experience at two green belt authorities. He was ranked in joint first place in Planning magazine’s planning law survey 2021, in the local authority planning lawyer category.

Experience:

British Land
Advising on various projects including major mixed-use schemes (with differing primary uses including retail/leisure, office, and life sciences) including Meadowhall Shopping Centre, Sheffield; Broadway Connection, Ealing; Blossom Street, Shoreditch; and Botley Road, Oxford.

Hines
Advising on the major mixed-use redevelopment of 18 Blackfriars Road in Southwark.

Native Land
Advising on the redevelopment of Bankside Yards, the former Ludgate House and Sampson House sites in Southwark, to provide a new large mixed-use scheme.

London Borough of Islington
Advising on the regeneration of the former Holloway Prison site in Islington to provide a new affordable housing led estate.

Breakthrough Properties
Advising on life science redevelopments – Trinity House in Oxford; and Vitrum in Cambridge.

Berkeley (East Thames)
Advising on the Kidbrooke Village estate regeneration in Greenwich.

Glenvale Park
Advising on the Wellingborough North urban extension.

Arun District Council
Advising on key strategic sites – BEW and West of Bersted.

Emma McDonald

Senior Associate emma.mcdonald@townlegal.com 07733 517860

Emma has experience advising a wide range of clients in respect of complex mixed-use planning applications (including several co-living and Build to Rent schemes) and negotiating associated section 106 agreements and highways agreements. Emma has acted on a number of high profile planning appeals, judicial review claims and compulsory purchase compensation claims. She also advises on community infrastructure levy (CIL), the use classes system, and planning enforcement.

Experience:

Olympus Property Holding Limited
Advising on the regeneration of the London Olympia Exhibition Centre, Kensington to deliver improved exhibition and conferencing facilities, offices, hotel accommodation, retail, leisure and new cultural uses.

London City Airport
Advising on the airport’s latest infrastructure programme known as the City Airport Development Programme and the associated planning permission.

Greystar Real Estate
Advising in relation to large scale Build to Rent residential developments at Lombard Rd, Battersea and One Lansdowne, Croydon.

GPE Plc
Advising GPE on all planning law aspects of its high quality office developments across London, including multiple developments in Westminster and Southwark.

Amro Real Estate Partners
Advising in relation to planning applications and subsequent permissions for large scale Build to Rent and co-living schemes across London, including: The Rex, Kingston; The Quadrant, Sutton; and Croydon Park Hotel, Croydon.

Watkin Jones Group Ltd
Advising on planning application and subsequent successful planning appeal in relation to Watkin Jones’ PBSA-led development in Battersea.

Capital & Regional Plc
Advising on the regeneration of The Mall, Walthamstow including the Build to Rent and commercial elements of the development.

M&G/Nuveen
Advising on planning law aspects of premium office developments including 40 Holborn Viaduct, City of London and 40 Leadenhall, City of London.

Curzon Park Limited
CPO compensation claim against HS2 and associated CAAD appeal.

Jamie Davies

Lucy Morton

Matt Speed

Senior Associate matt.speed@townlegal.com 07867 596130

Matt trained at Pinsent Masons LLP where he qualified as an Infrastructure Projects and Concessions solicitor. Matt gained experience advising large contractor clients in relation to PPP and PFI projects, highway projects, offshore wind projects and large-scale development projects.

Matt moved to Town in 2021 and has since advised a broad variety of clients in respect of complex mixed-use planning applications, section 106 agreements, minerals applications, planning appeal proceedings and judicial reviews proceedings. He also advises on CIL, environmental impact assessments, highways law and compulsory purchase.

Experience:

St William Homes
Advising on planning applications and section 106 agreements in London.

Legal & General
Providing strategic advice in relation to land draw down requirements and managing site-wide planning compliance for large development site. Advising L&G upon matters relating to water neutrality, fragmented site ownership, CIL, planning obligations and reserved matters.

Pocket Living
Providing planning advice and negotiating section 106 agreements on a number of 100% affordable residential schemes.

QTS
Providing strategic advice in relation to Northumberland data centre project.

Art-Invest
Advising Art-Invest in relation to its Canada Water development.

Quinn Estates
Advising in relation to planning inquiry for c. 8,400 home garden village.

PLATFORM_
Advising Platform_ in relation to planning applications for large build to rent led development in Milton Keynes and Leeds.

CIT
Advising CIT in relation to planning strategy for two office developments in the London Borough of Islington, negotiating section 106 agreements and securing planning consent.

Manchester Airports Group
Advising MAG in relation to planning matters and section 106 agreements at Manchester and Stansted airports.

Compulsory Purchase
Completing deeds of advance payment and providing legal advice throughout compulsory purchase compensation matters.

Nikita Sellers

Sadia Hussain

Susannah Herbert

Associates

Aline Hyde

Associate aline.hyde@townlegal.com 07551 375043

Aline trained and qualified at Town, having previously been a senior planner at a local planning authority in Surrey. Aline brings her practical experience of plan-making and development management to the team and has recently advised on policy interpretation, phasing, decision-making arrangements and engagement with local authorities, implementation, post-permission changes to development, drop-in applications, use classes, permitted development rights, habitats, the Community Infrastructure Levy, Assets of Community Value and applications for Lawful Development Certificates. She has experience in identifying grounds and making and resisting applications for judicial review and statutory review, advising on and preparing planning appeals, and negotiating section 106, section 278 and section 38 legal agreements. Aline is currently instructed on the promotion of a new settlement through the local plan process, as well as advising on the development of land already allocated for new settlements and urban extensions. She advised on the Stag Brewery site, instructed from application review to achieving permission following an inquiry, for the proposal for redevelopment of a former industrial site to provide a local centre, residential development and a secondary school. Aline is currently acting on a scheme in Kent called-in by the Secretary of State, which would see the redevelopment of a substantial area of land to provide a football stadium, residential and commercial development. She was recently instructed in a claim for statutory review in which the client’s permission was successfully preserved, and which clarified the meaning of parts of use class E.

As a planner, Aline appeared as an expert witness in an appeal recovered by the Secretary of State, which dealt with issues of Green Belt development in principle and a case for very special circumstances. She maintains her chartered membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute, and has recently had articles published in Planning magazine and the EG. Aline has also contributed to the ‘Planning Law (With Chickens)’ podcast.

Experience:

Reselton Properties Limited
Advising on the redevelopment of the former Stag Brewery in London

Summix and Homes England
Advising on the promotion of the Worcestershire Parkway new settlement through the South Worcestershire Local Plan

CIT Group
Application review, strategy and negotiation of section 106 and highways agreements on sites in London

Pocket Living
Providing Community Infrastructure Levy advice and negotiating section 106, section 278 and section 38 agreements in connection with residential development on sites across London

Hanwood Park
Advising on and negotiating a section 106 agreement for an urban extension to the east of Kettering

Galliard
Application review and negotiation of highways agreement for development in London and Birmingham

Anna Sidebottom

Associate anna.sidebottom@townlegal.com 07551 426951

Anna advises on all aspects of planning, highways and compulsory purchase law.

She regularly advises on planning application submissions, negotiates planning and highways agreements and provides transactional support for real estate, corporate and finance transactions. She also advises on the wide variety of planning matters arising out of that work, including CIL, environmental impact assessment and the use classes system.

Anna has experience acting in judicial review and planning appeal proceedings. She has advised on enforcement matters, including enforcement notice appeals and obtaining injunctions.

Anna completed her training at Sharpe Pritchard where she primarily advised local planning authority clients, before moving to Osborne Clarke where she acted for a range of commercial clients (particularly in the logistics sector). Anna joined Town Legal in September 2023.

Experience:

Petersham Nurseries Limited
Acting for Petersham Nurseries in a successful enforcement notice appeal.

John Lewis Partnership BtR Limited
Acting for John Lewis in a successful planning appeal for a new build-to-rent development and re-provision of an existing Waitrose store in West Ealing.

Ada Infrastructure
Advising on the proposed Docklands Data Centre Campus in West Silvertown, East London.

IM Properties
Advising IM Properties in relation to the expansion of Mercia Park in Leicestershire and the major Project Thrive proposals for a strategic and future-facing employment park for advanced manufacturing, R&D and logistics in North Warwickshire.

BC Partners
Advising BC Partners on an office-led mixed-use tall building scheme at 1 Museum Street, London.

Imperial College
Advising Imperial on a major mixed-use development at One Portal Way, North Acton.

Charlie Austin

Associate charlie.austin@townlegal.com 07551 426960

After two years of training at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, Charlie moved to Town Legal on qualification where he has since advised on a very broad range of matters including, but not limited to, enforcement, environmental impact assessments, planning appeals, planning and highways agreements, planning application reviews and strategy, due diligence in the context of property, corporate and finance transactions, applications for certificates of lawfulness, permitted development rights, flood risk assessments, and, more recently, the new requirement for 10% biodiversity net gain on all developments.

Charlie’s practice is nationwide, but primarily London-centric, and he is currently acting for clients on some of the most high-profile London developments that are in the planning pipeline or already in development.

Experience

Battersea Power Station
Lead associate advising in respect of the continuing redevelopment and regeneration of Battersea Power Station and its surrounding area.

Oxford University Developments
Acting for OUD on their 1,800 home scheme in Begbroke, Oxfordshire.

Park Plaza Hotels
Part of the team that was successful in achieving a planning permission on appeal for a new hotel in Lambeth, as well as advising on Park Plaza’s wider portfolio.

Valor Real Estate Partners
Providing planning support for Valor across their urban logistics portfolio, including the negotiation of highways works agreements and S106 agreements.

Stanhope
Negotiating the S106 agreement for the proposed large-scale redevelopment of Stanhope’s Royal Street site as a life-sciences led, mixed use development.

Global Holdings
Providing planning support and strategic advice in respect of Global Holdings’ planning application to redevelop 1 Hanover Square as their UK headquarters and, following the recent resolution to grant planning permission, negotiating the S106 agreement with Westminster City Council.

Pioneer Group
Providing planning law support Pioneer’s proposed redevelopment of the Grafton Centre, Cambridge, as a life-sciences led, mixed use development.

Topgolf
Advising Topgolf in respect of their existing and proposed developments in the UK.

London Green
Providing planning advice to London Green on their growing portfolio of primarily student accommodation and co-living schemes across London.

Partners

Clare Fielding

Clare Fielding

Duncan Field

Duncan Field

Elizabeth Christie

Elizabeth Christie

Louise Samuel

Louise Samuel

Martyn Jarvis

Martyn Jarvis

Meeta Kaur

Meeta Kaur

Paul Arnett

Paul Arnett

Raj Gupta

Raj Gupta

Simon Ricketts

Simon Ricketts

Spencer Tewis-Allen

Spencer Tewis-Allen

Victoria McKeegan

Victoria McKeegan

Chair

Michael Gallimore

Michael Gallimore

Consultants

Mary Cook

Mary Cook

Steve Quartermain CBE

Steve Quartermain CBE

Legal Director

Juliet Munn

Juliet Munn

Senior Associates

Amy Fender

Amy Fender

Carina Wentzel

Carina Wentzel

Chris Todman

Chris Todman

Emma McDonald

Emma McDonald

Jamie Davies

Jamie Davies

Lucy Morton

Lucy Morton

Matt Speed

Matt Speed

Nikita Sellers

Nikita Sellers

Sadia Hussain

Sadia Hussain

Susannah Herbert

Susannah Herbert

Associates

Aline Hyde

Aline Hyde

Anna Sidebottom

Anna Sidebottom

Charlie Austin

Charlie Austin

Emily Clapp

Emily Clapp

Matthew Cockerill

Matthew Cockerill

Poppy Mitchell-Anyon

Poppy Mitchell-Anyon

Sophie Bell

Sophie Bell

Sophie Jacobs

Sophie Jacobs

Tom Brooks

Tom Brooks

Trainees

Rebecca Craig

Rebecca Craig

Paralegals

Adam Choudhury