This is us Our work includes: We are a boutique planning law firm set up at the • Strategic planning law advice • Corporate and real estate transaction support end of 2016 by some of the leading figures in the • Legal audit of planning applications • Community Infrastructure Levy 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, • Planning appeals, call-ins, inquiries, hearings, written representations • Certificates of lawfulness across England and Wales. We act for a range of clients including developers, landowners, and • Local plan examinations • Rights of light and appropriation of land for planning purposes public authorities. • Litigation- judicial review and legal challenges • Highways law • Heritage law One of our partners is a leading planning barrister, • CPO and compensation law (including conducting • Rating Law which is one of the things that sets Town apart and claims in the Upper Tribunal) provides added value to clients, in terms of the quality and speed of our advice. “In our second year of establishment we were voted the country’s second most highly rated planning law team in Planning Magazine’s www.townlegal.com annual planning survey.” 1 Our clients include: Our partners 22 Bishopsgate Limited Coin Street Community Builders Lands Improvement Holdings Satnam Millennium Partnership Curzon Park Limited Lavanda Ventures SAV Development A2 Dominion DAMAC Group London Metropolitan University Sellar Arbury Estate Danescroft Land London Strategic Land Shearer Property Alteris David Wilson Homes Londonewcastle Shift Living Asra Housing Association Delancey Marylebone Cricket Club St George Aviva Derwent London Merseyside Pension Fund St James Barratt Elysian Residences Milton Park Estate St Mary’s University Battersea Power Station Far East Consortium Mount Anvil St William Development Company Fawley Waterside Nine Elms Property Stansted Airport Bellway Homes Fenwick Northacre Starwood Capital Advisors Berkeley Homes First Base Paddy Power Betfair Taylor Wimpey British Land Francis Crick Institute Penzance Heliport Telereal Trillium Brockton Capital Friends of the Elderly Plymouth City Council Telford Homes Burhill Group Estates Galliard Homes Quantum Group The Collective Canary Wharf Group plc Gleeson Strategic Land Quintain Thomas Lawrence and Sons Canfield Freehold Limited (From L to R) Clare Fielding, Elizabeth Christie, Raj Gupta, Patrick Robinson, Meeta Kaur, Mary Cook, Simon Ricketts (Bracknell) Goldcrest Land Richborough Estates Capital & Regional Tishman Speyer Greenwich Hospital RLW Estates Carebase Transport for London Greystar Royal Brompton and Harefield “Newly established planning boutique Town Legal LLP has an ‘outstanding range of talent, Carmarthenshire County NHS Foundation Trust Worshipful Company of Brewers with a good range of skills’... The firm focuses on major mixed-use schemes, commercial Council Imperial College Royal Mail Group Yodel developments, urban extensions and heritage and cultural projects, acting for clients… Church Commissioners of I.M. Properties who benefit from the firm’s ‘more personalised approach.” England Saco Group Ziggurat St Albans Ironmongers’ Livery Company Churchill Retirement Living Sandby JP Morgan Legal 500, October 2017 2 3 PARTNER PARTNER Elizabeth Christie Mary Cook [email protected] [email protected] 07931 870 569 | 0203 893 0380 07909 964 015 | 0203 893 0381 Experience Experience 22 Bishopsgate Limited Partnership Compulsory Purchase Strategic Land Advice 22 Bishopsgate Advising Southwark on the To various pension funds (at Fort Elephant and Castle Shopping Halstead), estates and landowners Lendlease and London & Continental Railways Centre redevelopment. Advising (in the Green Belt around York, International Quarter, Stratford City Carmarthenshire County Council on Surrey and Essex with commercial British Land road/footway and cycle schemes. and residential aspirations) and housebuilders with options at local Broadgate Estate Housing and Mixed-Used Schemes examination stage. She is currently Town have acted on appeals for Imperial College advising and acting for JP Morgan in Bellway in Buckingham; for A2 Perfume Factory, North Acton connection with a retail park Dominion at Siege Cross, West in Broxbourne. Francis Crick Institute Berkshire; at Forest Farm at Francis Crick Institute Chippenham and Manor Farm in Schools and Colleges Guildford Borough for Gleeson Advising two establishments on their Danescroft Land Strategic Land, and Home Group on development plans involving MOL Clock House and Access House, Bromley-by-Bow a strategic mixed-used scheme in in Camden and Haringey and one Sutton. She has secured consent on Brockton Capital language school. appeal for a residential scheme in the Post Building, Camden Elizabeth spent nine years at Herbert AONB in Chipping Camden, for Cove Hotels Smith Freehills before becoming one Market Tech Holdings Homes in Swallowfield, a mixed-used Currently advising on three hotel Mary is a leading planning barrister, Hawley Wharf, Camden Lock Market, Stables Market scheme in Richmond upon Thames projects in London at various stages and prior to Town was a member of of Town’s founding partners. She has (for Goldcrest), a bespoke architect in the development pipeline including Cornerstone Barristers where she a wide-ranging planning practice, designed dwelling in Islington in a a proposed Hoxton Hotel being including advising on tall buildings, PRS, Conservation Area/setting of several challenged by way of judicial review. served as Joint Head of Chambers. listed buildings. heritage issues, and major regeneration She is one of Town’s founding Retirement and Care Homes partners. schemes. Acting and advising Churchill Retirement Living, Carebase and Elysian Residences. 4 5 PARTNER PARTNER Clare Fielding Raj Gupta [email protected] [email protected] 07920 702 459 | 0203 893 0400 07809 200 214 | 0203 893 0382 Clare spent eight years at the Bank of England, seven at Experience Slaughter and May (where she qualified as a solicitor), Claims against HS2 seven at Herbert Smith; and four at Gowling WLG before Including for Freightliner, IM Group, Canfield, Curzon Park, becoming one of Town’s founding partners. She has a Booker Group and Grinsaem wide-ranging planning practice, focused in the main on Crossrail major development projects in London and the South East, Shard Place and Canada Water regeneration, LB Southwark acting for private sector developers and landowners. London Development Agency/Greater London Authority Promoting the Olympics CPO and acting on compensation claims Experience Transport for London Advising on securing and implementing powers for various projects Battersea Power Station St James Stanhope/Schroders JV including the East London Line Extension and the Silvertown Tunnel and on Development Company White City Living and Croydon Gateway CPO landmark compensation claims including Spirerose and Urban Edge Redevelopment of Centre House, White inquiry, LB Croydon Battersea Power Station, City, LBHF Arsenal Football Club LB Wandsworth Greenwich Hospital Emirates Stadium and Raj specialises in all aspects of compulsory purchase law Sellar Redevelopment of associated regeneration, and is particularly well-known for his expertise advising Shard Place and Canada Greenwich Market, RB LB Islington on land compensation law on infrastructure consenting. Water regeneration, LB Greenwich Southwark Before joining Town, Raj led Pinsent Masons’ compulsory Minerva plc purchase team for three years having previously spent ten Derwent London St Botolphs and the years at Eversheds. Raj is an elected member of the national White Collar Factory, LB Minerva Building (Canon Islington Street), City of London committee of the Compulsory Purchase Association. 6 7 PARTNER PARTNER Meeta Kaur Simon Ricketts [email protected] [email protected] 07894 172 547 | 0203 893 0383 07711 924 945 | 0203 893 0384 Meeta is a qualified lawyer and chartered town planner. Experience Richborough Estates Suffolk Coastal Supreme Court She specialises in large scale mixed-use redevelopment British Land proceedings and regeneration schemes, including urban extensions, Blossom Street, Shoreditch The Collective in London and across England. She advises on all aspects Lands Improvement Holdings Old Oak co-living of planning and associated areas and issues, such as Houghton Regis urban extension Mount Anvil highways, compulsory purchase, CIL, heritage, affordable Quintain Whitechapel Central housing and scheme viability, on both the contentious Wembley regeneration Capital and Regional and non-contentious side. Before Town, Meeta spent 12 Fawley Waterside Walthamstow town centre years at King & Wood Mallesons (previously SJ Berwin) and Former Fawley power station site London Eye before that was a senior planning officer at Westminster development, Hampshire London Eye retention City Council. Experience Quintain Regeneration of Wembley and revised St William Homes Eco Bos Developments masterplan for Wembley Park Proposed redevelopment of Fulham Proposed eco-community at Carclaze in Simon specialises in planning, compulsory purchase and related public law issues in relation to Hutchison Whampoa Gasworks Cornwall major mixed-use development schemes across England. Before co-founding Town he was head Redevelopment of Convoy’s Wharf Meyer Bergman Northants in Lewisham