Claire has 25 years' experience, in-house and in private practice, advising on planning application, appeal, and overall consenting strategies, and on the drafting and negotiation of (often complex) planning obligations and related agreements.
Her broad practice includes advising on affordable housing, BNG, compulsory acquisition and compensation, heritage, EIA, CIL, planning enforcement, NSIPs/TWAOs, highways law, clean energy and judicial/statutory reviews. Claire also drafts and negotiates planning provisions within sale/development agreements, conditional contracts and options.
Claire advises across all development sectors, including housebuilding and housing, landowners and promoters, charities and trusts, central government, and local authorities/the public sector, retail, energy, transport, minerals and waste.
