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Claire Fallows

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Claire is Head of Planning and specialises in planning, environmental, infrastructure and compulsory purchase law.

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About

Claire acts on major mixed-use and residential-led regeneration schemes, retail developments and strategic land projects for developer, landowner and investor clients. She also advises the promoters of and objectors to schemes requiring development consent orders and compulsory purchase orders. 

Claire writes frequently for Estates Gazette, Planning Magazine and Property Week. She is a member of the City of London Law Society Planning and Environment Sub-Committee. Claire is ranked as a 'Recommended Lawyer' in The Legal 500 and recognised as a 'Leading Individual' in Chambers & Partners.

Claire is admitted to practise in England and Wales.

Experience

  • Providing strategic advice to the Church Commissioners for England and joint venture partners on major residential-led and mixed-use urban extensions including in Chidswell, West Sussex and Hereford.
  • Acting for major developers on complex and sensitive sites across Central London, including on tall buildings and those impacting upon heritage assets.
  • Helping ITV plc obtain planning permission for a new corporate headquarters and residential development on the South Bank, London.
  • Acting for a global hydrogen supplier on a development consent order for new port infrastructure including a hydrogen production facility.
  • Advising a leading department store operator on planning and listed building consent applications affecting a Grade II* listed building.

Our thinking

  • Charles Russell Speechlys continues to grow with hire of Real Estate Planning expert Josh Risso-Gill

    Robin Grove MIoL

    News

  • Estates Gazette quotes Claire Fallows on the 'Great North' initiative launched at this year's UKREiiF

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    In The Press

  • City AM quotes Claire Fallows on the government's new Planning and Infrastructure Bill

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    In The Press

  • The Law Society Gazette quotes Claire Fallows on planning law reform

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    In The Press

  • Charles Russell Speechlys bolsters Real Estate and Construction offering with Senior Consultant hire

    Kevin Gibbs

    News

  • Consultation on further changes to compulsory purchase process and compensation: making compulsory acquisition easier

    Claire Fallows

    Insights

  • Key Planning Decisions in 2024

    Sophie Willis

    Insights

  • Claire Fallows writes for New Civil Engineer on how developers can navigate Biodiversity Net Gain in 2025

    Claire Fallows

    In The Press

  • Hydrogen Hurdles: navigating the path to net zero in the UK

    Rachael Davidson

    Insights

  • A range of titles including the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and The Times quote Claire Fallows on M&S receiving approval to demolish its flagship Oxford Street store

    Claire Fallows

    In The Press

  • Property Week quotes Claire Fallows on the Hillside Parks vs Snowdonia National Park Authority judgment two years on

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    In The Press

  • Eddie Richards writes for The Times, with input from our Planning team, on the need to build warehouses as well as new homes

    Eddie Richards

    In The Press

  • CoStar quotes Claire Fallows and Ben Butterworth on some of the key real estate issues addressed in the King's Speech

    Claire Fallows

    In The Press

  • Property Week quotes Claire Fallows on Labour's proposed new towns programme

    Claire Fallows

    In The Press

  • Property Week quotes Claire Fallows on a pending Supreme Court verdict in a Surrey oil field case

    Claire Fallows

    In The Press

  • The Levelling-Up and Regeneration Act 2023 & compulsory purchase

    Claire Fallows

    Insights

  • Property Week quotes Claire Fallows on reforms to the planning system announced in the Autumn Statement

    Claire Fallows

    In The Press

  • Part 2: Consultation on revisions to the NPPF

    Claire Fallows

    Insights

  • Part 1: Consultation on revisions to the NPPF

    Claire Fallows

    Insights

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