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Martin is a Partner in the Planning team which operates across its offices in London, Manchester, Sheffield, Aberdeen and Edinburgh and has specialised in planning law since he qualified 36 years ago.
He advises on all elements of planning law, crossing all sectors but with a focus on complex urban regeneration projects.
Planning shapes every aspect of our lives and Martin’s motivation is to help clients create exceptional and sustainable places and environments to meet the UK's demographic and development needs.
He has been lucky enough to work with clients, local planning authorities and their consultant teams on many significant and groundbreaking schemes including:
- The Brent Cross/Cricklewood regeneration project for Hammerson and Abrdn.
- Wembley Park for Quintain.
- Chelsea Barracks for Qatari Diar.
- Westfield London for Chelsfield.
- The East Plus partnership between SEGRO and the GLA.
- Merchant Square at Paddington Basin for European Land.
- The redevelopment of former ITV headquarters on the South Bank for Mitsubishi Estates.
- The regeneration of North Finchley High Street with Joseph Partners.
- Aviva’s regeneration of land at Vastern Road in Reading.
- Three renewals of SEGRO's Simplified Planning Zone at the Slough Trading Estate (2004, 2014 and 2024).
- Costco on its UK warehouse club portfolio.
Martin advises on numerous other projects across the UK in the retail, housing, logistics, office, leisure, data centre, industrial and education sectors and was also one of Jeremy Clarkson's "Legal Avengers" in the Amazon Prime series Clarkson's Farm (Season 2 Episode 6).
He has been recognised as a leading planning lawyer in the Legal 500 and the Chambers and Partners guides since 1997 and has been named as a member of the Legal 500's "Hall of Fame" since 2018.
The Planning team is also ranked in Tier 1 in the Legal 500 in London and were shortlisted for Planning Magazine's Law Firm of the Year Award in 2015 , 2018 and 2019.
