Planning Clarity Legal is a boutique (specialist) Planning Law firm located in London, United Kingdom

Our specialist and highly skilled Planning Lawyers and Solicitors have extensive experience from both the private and public sectors, having previously worked in-house at local planning authorities and at large private practice city law firms. This provides them with a comprehensive understanding of legal matters related to planning and property development from all sides of the equation and in planning this is particularly important as lawyers need to regularly deal with local planning authorities and therefore have an understanding of how these authorities function

Our Planning Lawyers and Solicitors advise on legal matters concerning all aspects of the town and country planning system, including planning permission for development, Section 106 Agreements, Planning Appeals, Community Infrastructure Levy and Certificates of Lawfulness. Additionally, we advise on Compulsory Purchase, Highways Law matters and Judicial Review

We advise on all types of development, whether it be residential, commercial or mixed use development, including housing, student accommodation, retail parks, care homes, offices, warehouses, hotels, bars & restaurants, regeneration, infrastructure and renewable energy projects

Our clients include property developers and companies (large and small), landowners, housing associations, local authorities, property consultancies, architectural firms, planning consultancies, investors, charities and other law firms

Our firm provides top-tier legal advice but at more competitive fees compared to that charged by larger city law firms given that we are a boutique specialist firm and do not have the significant overheads of these larger firms. Our clients also benefit from having their matters handled personally by a senior experienced lawyer avoiding delegation to a more junior lawyer as often seen in larger firms

Chad Sutton, our Managing Director, has more than 19 years of experience as a Planning Lawyer, from both the private and public sectors

Chad advises property developers, housing associations, and local authorities on legal matters related to planning and property development, including Section 106 Agreements, Planning Appeals and Certificates of Lawfulness. He also advises on Highways Law matters (including Section 278 & 38 Agreements) and Compulsory Purchase Orders

Chad is a long-standing Member of the Planning & Environmental Law Committee (Law Society of England & Wales) and a Legal Associate Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute

Chad has been quoted in the UK Legal 500 as a ‘hard worker’, someone who ‘looks for practical solutions to problems’ and who ‘acts with tremendous speed and accuracy’. He has also appeared as a planning expert on BBC London News

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