About
Sadie provides strategic planning advice for a wide range of landowners and developers including on residential, mixed-use, energy and infrastructure projects. Sadie advises on contentious matters including planning appeals and enforcement matters for private clients and companies in the residential, leisure and logistics sectors. She also negotiates complex planning agreements with local authorities and is experienced in advising on the Community Infrastructure Levy and on heritage.
Sadie is admitted to practice in England and Wales.
Experience
- Providing strategic planning advice on the use of s.96A amendments and s.73 planning permissions to allow purchasers to adapt multi-use, phased development schemes.
- Assisting on applications for and objections to development consent orders for major strategic infrastructure, including submitting representations, assisting on change applications and negotiating protective provisions.
- Drafting and negotiating planning obligations, including those with complex viability review mechanisms for major developments in London and affordable housing cascades (such as through the provision of homes via alternative rent to buy models, or contributions in lieu).
- Undertaking due diligence on land purchases, including conducting reviews of subsisting planning agreements and analyzing the impact of restrictive conditions for mixed use developments on behalf of investors.
- Advising on enforcement issues for listed buildings, including securing the withdrawal of criminal proceedings against an education institution.
