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

Our specialist and highly experienced Planning Lawyers and Solicitors have extensive experience working in both the private and public sectors, having worked in local planning authorities as well as large private practice city law firms, and this gives them a comprehensive understanding of legal issues relating to planning and property development from all sides of the equation

Our Planning Lawyers and Solicitors advise on 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. We also advise on Compulsory Purchase, Highways Law 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, local authorities, property consultancies, architectural firms, planning consultancies, investors, charities, housing associations and other law firms

Our Managing Director, Chad Sutton is a planning lawyer with over 18 years of experience in the private and public sectors advising developers, housing associations and local authorities on legal issues associated with development

Chad is a member of the Law Society’s Planning & Environmental Law Committee. He is also 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

Professional experience:

  • Managing Director at Planning Clarity Legal Ltd (2017 to present)
  • Partner & Head of Planning at Maples Teesdale LLP (2013 to 2017)
  • Planning Senior Associate at Trowers & Hamlins LLP (2006 to 2013)
  • Planning Solicitor at Clarkslegal LLP (2005 to 2006)
  • Planning Lawyer at London Boroughs of Hillingdon, Ealing and Tower Hamlets (2003 to 2005)

Qualifications and memberships:

  • Member of Planning & Environmental Law Committee, Law Society of England & Wales (2016 to present)
  • Legal Associate Member of Royal Town Planning Institute (2013 to present)
  • Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales (admitted in 2005)

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