About
Josh is a leading City-based planning and highways lawyer specialising in planning, highway, compulsory purchase and listed building issues. He writes legal opinions and gives strategic advice on planning applications, appeals, inquiries and the judicial review of planning and development-related consents for complex, high profile developments.
Josh advises clients across the UK development sector: family offices, housebuilders, banks, investors, retailers and leisure operators. He has particular expertise in large scale, urban, mixed-use regeneration and infrastructure projects, City of London development, PBSA, heritage and co-living resi development. He negotiates complex planning agreements for strategic regeneration developments e.g. in Stratford, Maidenhead, Newcastle. His clients include: Motcomb Estates, Dominus, Curlew, Marcus Cooper Group, Bloombridge. He is a committee member of the Planning Surveyors Club.
Josh is ranked in The Legal 500 and in Chambers & Partners.
Josh is admitted to practise in England & Wales.
Experience
- People’s Republic of China: for new super Embassy at Royal Mint Court: call-in inquiry
- Battersea Heliport: London’s only CAA heliport
- London/Oxford Airport: airport development including UK’s largest civilian helicopter hangar
- Pilgrim Square and Pilgrim Quarter, Newcastle: the largest urban regeneration scheme in UK’s northeast
- Millbank Tower, Westminster: UK’s largest office to residential conversion
- Ascot Racecourse: new facilities track diversion and grandstand
- Twickenham Stadium: new south stand, conference facilities and hotel and consents for concerts
- Harlequins: Exeter’s first co-living scheme
- Unity Street: Bristol’s first co-living scheme
- Google’s first hyperscaler data centre in the UK at Broxbourne
