After two years of training at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, Charlie moved to Town Legal on qualification where he has since advised on a very broad range of matters including, but not limited to, enforcement, environmental impact assessments, planning appeals, planning and highways agreements, planning application reviews and strategy, due diligence in the context of property, corporate and finance transactions, applications for certificates of lawfulness, permitted development rights, flood risk assessments, and, more recently, the new requirement for 10% biodiversity net gain on all developments.
Charlie’s practice is nationwide, but primarily London-centric, and he is currently acting for clients on some of the most high-profile London developments that are in the planning pipeline or already in development.
Experience
Battersea Power Station
Lead associate advising in respect of the continuing redevelopment and regeneration of Battersea Power Station and its surrounding area.
Park Plaza Hotels
Part of the team that was very recently (June 2024) successful in achieving a planning permission on appeal for a new hotel in Lambeth, as well as advising on Park Plaza’s wider portfolio.
Valor Real Estate Partners
Providing planning support for Valor across their urban logistics portfolio, including the negotiation of highways works agreements and S106 agreements.
Oxford University Developments
Acting for OUD on their 1,800 home scheme in Begbroke, Oxfordshire.
Stanhope
Negotiating the S106 agreement for the proposed large-scale redevelopment of Stanhope’s Royal Street site as a life-sciences led, mixed use development.
HB Reavis
Strategic planning advice and the negotiation of various planning agreements in respect of the redevelopment of One Waterloo.
Pioneer Group
Providing planning law support Pioneer’s proposed redevelopment of the Grafton Centre, Cambridge, as a life-sciences led, mixed use development.
Topgolf
Advising Topgolf in respect of their existing and proposed developments in the UK.
London Green
Providing planning advice to London Green on their growing portfolio of primarily student accommodation and co-living schemes across London.