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We are one of the largest planning teams in the UK with over 30 specialist lawyers. We are motivated by a passion to help to create exceptional places and environments and deliver essential infrastructure to meet the UK's demographic and development needs.

Planning shapes every aspect of our lives. The buildings and environments in which we live, work, shop, play and educate the next generation have all been created through commercial enterprise, consultation and the exercise of political power by our elected representatives through the planning system.

Alongside our expertise in real estate we are also leading specialists in energy & infrastructure consenting.

Working for many years across a full range of development and infrastructure sectors gives us deep industry experience and perspective so that we can deliver clear and practical advice on fast-moving projects. We have assisted our clients with obtaining planning permissions and other consents for some of the UK’s largest and most complex schemes.

Our expertise spreads across urban regeneration, housing, retail, data centres, industrial and logistics, hotels and leisure, surplus land and energy and infrastructure. Our aim for every development is to ensure that our client obtains implementable, flexible, bankable and fit-for-purpose consents in accordance with their programme.

In the last three years alone, we have helped our clients to secure planning permissions for:

  • Over 24,000 new homes
  • Over 8m sq. ft. of retail
  • Over 6m sq. ft. of offices
  • Over 4m sq. ft. of industrial
  • 10GW / 1,100 Kms of generation / networks
 
Poonam Rathour
Poonam Rathour-Patel
Senior Associate
United Kingdom, London
Poonam Rathour is a Senior Associate in the Real Estate department
Maria Wright (née Demetriou)
Maria Wright
Senior Associate
United Kingdom, London
Maria is a Senior Associate in the Real Estate department
Alana Barker
Alana Barker
Associate
United Kingdom, Glasgow
Alana is an Associate within the Scottish Planning team at CMS. Alana also has a valuable insight having previously worked in the public sector as a planner. She advises on a wide range of contentious...
Kelly Brown
Kelly Brown
Associate
United Kingdom, Sheffield
Kelly is an associate in our Planning Team in Sheffield. She deals with due diligence for investors and developers and the drafting and negotiation of planning and highways agreements. Kelly also provides...
Chris Devitt
Chris Devitt
Associate
United Kingdom, Manchester
Chris is an Associate in our Planning Group. Chris has significant experience advising clients in relation to infrastructure, energy and property projects, planning applications, real estate, financing...
Patrick Fenlon
Patrick Fenlon
Associate
United Kingdom, Manchester
Patrick Fenlon is an Associate in the Planning team. Patrick has experience advising clients in relation to energy and infrastructure projects, nuclear decommissioning and environmental permitting. He...
Kathryn Nolin
Kathryn Nolin
Associate
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Katy qualified as an Associate in the Planning Team, having spent 18 months of her training contract working in the team. With nearly ten years of legal experience spanning two continents before joining...
Isabel Sgambellone
Isabel Sgambellone
Associate
United Kingdom, London
Isabel is an associate in the Planning team in London, having qualified in August 2021. Her practice spans all matters of planning law, with experience in both contentious and non-contentious matters...
Celine Skinner
Celine Skinner
Associate
United Kingdom, London
Celine qualified as an Associate in the Planning team in August 2022 after completing her traineeship at CMS. Celine has a variety of experience in relation to large scale energy and infrastructure projects...
Isabel Stones
Isabel Stones
Associate
United Kingdom, Sheffield
Isabel is an associate in the Planning team in Sheffield