Vicki specialises in planning, environmental, highways and compulsory purchase matters. She regularly advises on consenting strategies and the submission of planning and development consent order applications, the drafting and negotiation of section 106 and highways agreements, habitats regulations, environmental impact assessment, permitted development rights and planning enforcement matters. Vicki also has considerable experience of judicial reviews and statutory challenges in the High Court, as well as managing high profile planning inquiries and appeals.
Vicki has particular expertise in delivering large scale infrastructure schemes in the energy and transport sectors, including by way of Development Consent Orders and Transport & Works Act Orders. She has acted on behalf of a number of developers to obtain consents for onshore and offshore wind energy projects, CCGT, biomass and energy from waste facilities, as well as transport schemes including the construction of new highways, busways and aviation expansion projects.
Vicki has also advised on large residential and mixed use development schemes across the country.
Vicki is on the Council of the National Infrastructure Planning Association and regularly provides insight on issues and developments in planning law.
Experience
Examples of experience include advising:
- RWE on the Norfolk Offshore Wind Farm projects - Vicki has been working on these DCO projects for many years, navigating them through the consenting process and into construction, including presenting the first without prejudice derogation case for delivering compensation under the Habitats Regulations
- Cambridgeshire County Council on the their application for a Transport & Works Act Order for a busway from Cambourne to Cambridge, including managing the 3 month public inquiry process
- ERLP and The Merchant Venturers on their called in planning application for outline permission for up to 1,500 dwellings, retail and employment space, and health facilities in the Green Belt at Brockworth, Gloucestershire.
