This is us Our work includes:

We are a boutique planning law firm set up at • Strategic planning law advice • Corporate and real estate transaction support the end of 2016 by some of the leading figures • Legal audit of planning applications • Community Infrastructure Levy in the planning law sector. • Section 106 and other planning agreements • Legal advice in relation to environmental impact assessment and related EU legislation We advise on all aspects of planning law, across England and • Planning appeals, call-ins, inquiries, hearings, written Wales. We act for a range of clients including developers, representations • Certificates of lawfulness landowners, and public authorities. • Local plan examinations • Rights of light and appropriation of land for planning One of our partners is a leading planning barrister, which is one • Litigation- judicial review and legal challenges purposes of the things that sets Town apart and provides added value to • Highways law • Heritage law clients, in terms of the quality and speed of our advice. • CPO and compensation law (including conducting claims in the Upper Tribunal)

“In our first year of establishment we were voted the country’s third most highly www.townlegal.com rated planning law team in Planning Magazine’s annual planning survey.”

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22 Bishopsgate Limited DAMAC group Metropolitan Sellar Partnership University Danescroft Land Shearer Property A2 Dominion London Strategic Land David Wilson Homes Shift Living Arbury Estate Londonnewcastle Delancey South Hams District Council Alteris Merseyside Pension Fund St George Asra Housing Association Milton Park Estate Elysian Residences St James Mount Anvil Far East Consortium St Mary’s University Banbury Town Council Nine Elms Property Fawley Waterside St William Battersea Power Station Northacre Starwood Capital Advisors Development Company Fenwick Paddy Power Betfair Homes First Base Penzance Heliport Telereal Trillium Berkeley Homes Francis Crick Institute Plymouth City Council The Collective Friends of the Elderly Quantum Group Thomas Lawrence and Sons Brockton Capital Galliard Homes Quintain (Bracknell) Burhill Group Estates Gleeson Strategic Land Richborough Estates Tishman Speyer Canary Wharf Group Goldcrest Land RLW Estates West Devon Borough Capital & Regional Greenwich Hospital Council Royal Brompton and (From L to R) Simon Ricketts, Elizabeth Christie, Clare Fielding, Patrick Robinson, Mary Cook, Meeta Kaur Carebase Greystar Harefield NHS Foundation Worshipful Company of Trust Brewers Carmarthenshire County Imperial College Council Ironmongers’ Livery Group Yodel “Newly established planning boutique Town Legal LLP has an ‘outstanding range of talent, Church Commissioners of Company Saco Group Ziggurat St Albans with a good range of skills’... The firm focuses on major mixed-use schemes, commercial England JP Morgan Sandby developments, urban extensions and heritage and cultural projects, acting for clients… Churchill Retirement Living who benefit from the firm’s ‘more personalised approach.” Lands Improvement Satnam Millennium Coin Street Community Holdings SAV Development Builders Lavanda Ventures Legal 500, October 2017

2 3 PARTNERS Elizabeth Christie Mary Cook [email protected] [email protected] 07931 870 569 | 0203 893 0380 07909 964 015 | 0203 893 0381

Experience Mary is a leading planning barrister, Experience 22 Bishopsgate Limited Partnership and prior to Town was a member of Compulsory Purchase: Advising Southwark 22 Bishopsgate Cornerstone Barristers where she on the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre redevelopment. Advising Carmarthenshire County Lendlease and London & Continental Railways served as Joint Head of Chambers. Council on road/footway and cycle schemes. International Quarter, Stratford City She is one of Town’s founding partners. Housing and Mixed Use Schemes: Town have British Land acted on appeals for Bellway in Buckingham; for A2 Broadgate Estate Dominion at Siege Cross, West Berkshire; at Forest Imperial College Farm at Chippenham and Manor Farm in Guildford Perfume Factory, North Acton Borough for Gleeson Strategic Land. She has secured Francis Crick Institute consent on appeal for a residential scheme in the Francis Crick Institute AONB in Chipping Camden and for a mixed use scheme in Richmond upon Thames (for Goldcrest). Elizabeth spent nine years at Herbert Folkestone Harbour Company Smith Freehills before becoming one Folkestone Harbour Retirement and Care Homes: Acting and advising Churchill Retirement Living, Carebase and of Town’s founding partners. She has a Brockton Capital Elysian Residences. wide-ranging planning practice, including Post Building, Camden Strategic land advice to various pension funds (at advising on tall buildings, PRS, heritage Market Tech Holdings Fort Halstead) and landowners (in the Green Belt in issues, and major regeneration schemes. Hawley Wharf, Camden Lock Market, Stables Market Surrey and Essex with commercial and residential aspirations) and housebuilders with options at local examination stage. 4 5 PARTNERS Clare Fielding Meeta Kaur [email protected] [email protected] 07809 200 214 | 0203 893 0382 07894 172 547 | 0203 893 0383

Clare spent eight years at the Bank of England, seven at Meeta is a qualified lawyer and chartered town planner. Slaughter and May (where she qualified as a solicitor), She specialises in large scale mixed-use redevelopment seven at Herbert Smith; and four at Gowling WLG before and regeneration schemes, including urban extensions, becoming one of Town’s founding partners. She has a in London and across England. She advises on all aspects wide-ranging planning practice, focused in the main on of planning and associated areas and issues, such as major development projects in London and the South highways, compulsory purchase, CIL, heritage, affordable East, acting for private sector developers and landowners. housing and scheme viability, on both the contentious and non-contentious side. Before Town, Meeta spent 12 Experience years at King & Wood Mallesons (previously SJ Berwin) and before that was a senior planning officer at Westminster Battersea Power Station Greenwich Hospital City Council. Development Company Redevelopment of Greenwich Redevelopment of Battersea Power Market, RB Greenwich Station, LB Wandsworth plc Experience Sellar St Botolphs and the Minerva Building Quintain High Street in Putney, Blossom Commercial Estates Group Shard Place and Canada Water (Canon Street), Regeneration of Wembley and Street in Shoreditch and Eden Walk in Sustainable urban extension north regeneration, LB Southwark Stanhope/ JV revised masterplan for Wembley Kingston. east of Leicester. Park. Derwent London Croydon Gateway CPO inquiry, LB St William Homes Eco Bos Developments White Collar Factory, LB Islington Croydon Hutchison Whampoa Proposed redevelopment of Fulham Proposed eco-community at Carclaze St James Arsenal Football Club Redevelopment of Convoy’s Wharf in Gasworks. in Cornwall. Lewisham. White City Living and Centre House, Emirates Stadium and associated Meyer Bergman Northants White City, LBHF regeneration, LB Islington British Land Retail-led redevelopment of Wellingborough North urban Clarges Estate in Mayfair, Putney Vinopolis. extension.

6 7 PARTNERS Simon Ricketts Patrick Robinson [email protected] [email protected] 07711 924 945 | 0203 893 0384 07785 254 981 | 0203 893 0385

Simon specialises in planning, Experience Patrick spent thirty-eight years at Herbert Smith Freehills compulsory purchase and British Land before becoming one of Town’s founding partners. He is the related public law issues in Blossom Street, Shoreditch firm’s Managing Partner, and continues to practice across all relation to major mixed-use Lands Improvement Holdings areas of contentious and non-contentious planning work. He development schemes across Houghton Regis urban extension brings to the subject the broader experience of a development England. Before co-founding Quintain real estate lawyer’s background. Town he was head of planning Wembley regeneration and environmental law first Fawley Waterside Experience at SJ Berwin and then King & Former Fawley power station site 22 Bishopsgate Limited Partnership British Land Wood Mallesons. He has been development, Hampshire 22 Bishopsgate Broadgate ranked as the country’s most Richborough Estates Elizabeth House Limited Partnership Carlyle Group Suffolk Coastal Supreme Court highly rated planning solicitor Elizabeth House Sampson House and Ludgate House proceedings for the last eight years running in Planning magazine’s annual The Collective Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trustees of the Tate Gallery Old Oak co-living Foundation Trust Tate Modern survey. He is author of the Royal Brompton Hospital Mount Anvil Simonicity planning law blog. Aermont Capital Whitechapel Central Parkhurst Road Limited No 1 Poultry Capital and Regional Parkhurst Road Walthamstow town centre

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