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Claire Fallows

Partner - Head of Planning

Claire Fallows specialises in planning, environmental, highways and compulsory purchase law.

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About

Claire acts on major mixed-use and residential-led regeneration schemes and strategic land projects for developer, landowner and investor clients. She also advises authorities, developers and occupiers on the promotion of, or objection to, compulsory purchase orders and other public law powers.

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 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
  • Advising a private landowner / developer on site assembly through compulsory purchase including on the acquisition process and compensation

Our thinking

  • 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

    Claire Fallows

    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

  • Property Week quotes Claire Fallows on the regeneration of brownfield sites in England

    Claire Fallows

    In The Press

  • Claire Fallows writes for PBC Today on the UK housing crisis

    Claire Fallows

    In The Press

  • Property Week quotes Claire Fallows on the watering down of housing targets

    Claire Fallows

    In The Press

  • The future of investment zones

    Claire Fallows

    Quick Reads

  • Charles Russell Speechlys advises Housebuilder Countryside in its partnership with Redbridge council to build up to 1,000 homes in east London centre

    Sarah Wigington

    News

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