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Rebecca Roffe

Partner

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Rebecca Roffe

Partner

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
1-3 Charter Square
Sheffield
S1 4HS
United Kingdom
Languages English, French

Rebecca is a Partner in our Planning Group in Sheffield with over 10 years of experience in all planning and environmental matters. She deals with contentious and non-contentious issues for investors, developers, consenting authorities, contractors and operators, particularly in the energy and climate change, real estate and infrastructure sectors. She focuses on derisking investment in, and development of, complex schemes through strategic advice and novel approaches to risk allocation. She has deep expertise in land assembly and CPO, environmental impact and habitats assessment, Development Consent Order applications, planning/highways agreements, enforcement and inquiry work, energy and sustainability regulation and contaminated land. 

Rebecca is the Chair of the Sheffield branch of the Forum for the Built Environment and the Development Team of the Sheffield Property Association. She is also a key member of our CMS Women and ENABLE Wellbeing and Mental Health networks, with a keen interest in volunteering.

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"Rebecca does really good-quality, complex work."

Chambers, 2023

"She 'deals well with tight deadlines, provides good advice and is very easy to work with'."

Legal 500, 2020

"deep expertise across a spectrum of environmental matters, including water law, pollution and habitats"

Chambers 2019

"particularly strong on handling transactional matters"

Chambers 2019

“she deals well with tight deadlines, provides good advice and is very easy to work with".

Client feedback

"Next generation lawyer"

Legal 500

"Highly commended"

Rising Star Awards

"Rebecca does really good-quality, complex work."

Chambers, 2023

"She 'deals well with tight deadlines, provides good advice and is very easy to work with'."

Legal 500, 2020

"deep expertise across a spectrum of environmental matters, including water law, pollution and habitats"

Chambers 2019

"particularly strong on handling transactional matters"

Chambers 2019

“she deals well with tight deadlines, provides good advice and is very easy to work with".

Client feedback

"Next generation lawyer"

Legal 500

"Highly commended"

Rising Star Awards

Relevant experience

  • U+I on securing planning permission and subsequent variations to enable construction of its flagship Mill Green Outlet Village retail scheme in Cannock, despite novel retail restriction drafting in the s.106 agreement.
  • North York Moors National Park Authority in relation to its role as consenting authority for the construction and operation of the York Potash polyhalite mine and mineral transport system in the National Park.
  • Columbia Threadneedle Investments, M&G, SEGRO and UK & European on the planning and environmental aspects of various property sales, purchases, developments and M&A deals.
  • Maple Grove Developments in relation to the promotion of the Cuerden Strategic Site, including legal review of application papers, drafting and negotiating s.106 agreement and negotiating conditional development agreement with all landowner parties.
  • Whitemoss Landfill Limited in relation to a successful application for a Development Consent Order for a hazardous waste landfill site, including advising on consultation and engagement strategy, appearing at examination hearings, advising on land assembly strategy and negotiating s.106 contributions.
  • Costco in relation to the acquisition and development of various brownfield sites for the construction of Warehouse Clubs, including allocating environmental liability, negotiating planning and highways agreements and advising on CIL.
  • Enfield Borough Council on the acquisition of land for its Meridan Water scheme, involving advising on planning policy, environmental insurance options and contractual risk apportionment.
  • Kincardine Offshore Windfarm Limited on its offshore wind schemes, focussing on compliance with environmental impact assessment and biodiversity legislation.
  • A Biffa group company on the sale of part of a non-operational landfill site to a developer of service and petrol stations.
  • Tarmac Trading Limited in relation to its role as interested party in respect of the East Midlands Gateway Rail Freight Interchange, including presenting written and verbal advocacy at hearings, advising on compensation and negotiating agreements in lieu of the use of CPO powers.
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Memberships & Roles

Chair, Forum for the Built Environmental, Sheffield City Region Branch
Development Team member, Sheffield Property Association
Member, UKELA
Member, Women in Mining
Member, Compulsory Purchase Association

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Publications

Westlaw insight page on Development consent order applications

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Lectures list

May 2019 - RICS Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards Roadshow
June 2018 - RICS Environmental Law Update
October 2017 - RICS Sustainability Seminar

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Education

  • 2007 – LLB and LPC, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham
  • 2006 – pGDL in Law, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham
  • 2003 – BA Politics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield
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Expertise

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Hill­side Re­vis­ited 3 – Sage Ad­vice – De­vel­op­ment pur­su­ant to a plan­ning...
In the third in our series of Law-Nows look­ing at the Su­preme Court’s judg­ment in Hill­side[1], we con­sider how the Su­preme Court has cla­ri­fied the ap­plic­ab­il­ity of the Sage[2] prin­ciple. The Su­preme...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
26/05/2021
Move­ment on new leg­al frame­work for air pol­lu­tion, wa­ter qual­ity and nature...
Re­in­tro­duced to Par­lia­ment on 12 May, the En­vir­on­ment Bill (the “Bill”) is ex­pec­ted to enter in­to force in au­tumn 2021, ahead of the UK host­ing COP26 in Glas­gow in Novem­ber. The Bill sets out a leg­al...
Law-Now Sustainability
02/02/2021
We­bin­ar: Plan­ning re­form in the North: Lev­el­ling up or doub­ling down?
The CMS Plan­ning Team and in­de­pend­ent plan­ning con­sultancy Quod will dis­cuss the changes to the Use Classes Or­der and the Gen­er­al Per­mit­ted De­vel­op­ment Or­der, and the im­pact the changes could have in...
Event Webinar
25/08/2020
Good­bye, Sec­tion 106?
The Plan­ning White Pa­per (PWP) pro­poses to do away with sec­tion 106 agree­ments and the Com­munity In­fra­struc­ture Levy at a loc­al au­thor­ity level (the PWP sug­gests that CIL charged by Lon­don/re­gion­al May­ors...
Law-Now Infrastructure & Projects
23/07/2020
Hab­it­ats Reg­u­la­tions Toolkit 2020
The EU nature dir­ect­ives (the Birds and Hab­it­ats Dir­ect­ives) un­der­pin the net­work of European pro­tec­ted sites known as Natura 2000. The Hab­it­ats Dir­ect­ive man­ages the plans and pro­jects that may im­pact...
Publication
02/07/2020
A New Deal for Bri­tain – The CMS Plan­ning Group’s Agenda for Great­er Flex­ib­il­ity...
As the UK enters re­ces­sion, we ur­gently need to look at how the plan­ning sys­tem can re­spond to at­tract in­vest­ment and drive growth. Dur­ing the pan­dem­ic there have been nu­mer­ous tweaks to the plan­ning...
Publication
09/06/2020
Where do we go from here?
The pub­lic­a­tion provides thoughts and in­sights in­to how de­vel­op­ment and plan­ning in areas like hous­ing, of­fices and care homes are likely to be drastic­ally altered as a res­ult of the Cov­id 19 pan­demi...
Publication
04/06/2020
High Court quashes screen­ing dir­ec­tion which re­lied on as­sump­tions about...
Sum­mary In R (on the ap­plic­a­tion of Swire) v Sec­ret­ary of State for Hous­ing, Com­munit­ies and Loc­al Gov­ern­ment [2020] EWHC 1298 (Ad­min), the High Court con­sidered what the cor­rect ap­proach to EIA screen­ing...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
27/05/2020
High Court dis­misses chal­lenge to Drax Power Sta­tion DCO
Sum­mary The High Court has dis­missed Cli­ent Earth’s leg­al chal­lenge to the Sec­ret­ary of State’s de­cision to grant de­vel­op­ment con­sent for the con­struc­tion of new gas-fired units at the Drax Power...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
20/05/2020
En­vir­on­ment­al Chal­lenge to The Gov­ern­ment’s En­ergy Na­tion­al Policy State­ments
A leg­al chal­lenge to the Sec­ret­ary of State’s al­leged fail­ure to re­view the suite of en­ergy na­tion­al policy state­ments (En­ergy NPSs) has been is­sued by Dale Vince, George Mon­bi­ot and the Good Law Pro­ject...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
14/05/2020
COV­ID-19: up­date to Com­puls­ory Pur­chase Guid­ance
The Gov­ern­ment has now re­cog­nised that the stat­utory pro­cess for mak­ing and con­firm­ing a CPO un­der the Ac­quis­i­tion of Land Act 1981 (the 1981 Act) has sev­er­al re­quire­ments which are more chal­len­ging to...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
28/01/2020
Court rules that un­in­cor­por­ated as­so­ci­ations – in­clud­ing neigh­bour­hood...
Over­view In Air­e­bor­ough Neigh­bour­hood De­vel­op­ment For­um v Leeds City Coun­cil, it was found that an un­in­cor­por­ated as­so­ci­ation, in this case a neigh­bour­hood for­um, has ca­pa­city to bring both a ju­di­cial...
Law-Now Real Estate
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