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Ashley Damiral is UK Head of Planning. He is a leading expert with more than 25 years’ experience in both development planning and infrastructure consenting. Ashley is advising on some of the largest and highest profile planning projects in the UK, spanning various sectors, including housing, data centres, airports, logistics, retail, life sciences, education and leisure. Ashley’s clients include developers and promoters of complex regeneration and infrastructure projects, as well as investors, funders, landowners, occupiers, authorities and third parties.
Ashley advises across the full development lifecycle from initial strategy to implementation and enforcement. Ashley also has significant contentious experience, including appeals and call-in public inquiries, and judicial reviews up to the Supreme Court. As well as expertise in the TCPA and DCO regimes, Ashley has unique Special Development Order experience for major private sector proposals. Ashley also has a noteworthy CPO and compensation practice (including on HS2, Crossrail and other major schemes), which extends to other areas where there is interplay between private and public land rights, including s203 and s241, and statutory trusts.
