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Brodies LLP’s ‘highly accessible’ planning team provides ‘confident, authoritative advice in a timely fashion’, and is particularly noted for its expertise in drafting s75 planning obligations. In 2011 it acted for Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority in relation to a proposed gold mine. Practice head Neil Collar provides ‘excellent strategic and tactical advice’.

Dundas & Wilson CS LLP has a long track record and a blue-chip client base that includes EDF and Lloyds Banking Group. In 2011 it advised the Trump Organisation on its £1bn golf resort in Aberdeenshire. Practice head Ann Faulds is ‘a thought leader’.

Shepherd and Wedderburn’s ‘accessible’ planning team provides ‘measured and considered advice’. Recently, it acted for Taylor Wimpey in an appeal against Edinburgh Council’s refusal to grant planning permission for 75 homes in South Edinburgh. Practice head Colin Innes and Ewan MacLeod are recommended.

Sandy Telfer’s planning team at DLA Piper Scotland LLP ‘knows the ins and outs and subtleties of Scottish planning law really well’. In 2011 it advised the Scottish government on potential models for infrastructure funding.

DWF Biggart Baillie’s Murray Shaw shows ‘high levels of expertise’. In 2011 the team advised Aberdeenshire Council on a new development plan, which was the first under the new planning regime.

Maclay Murray & Spens LLP’s planning team acted for Bancon Developments in challenging a refusal of planning permission for a 26-house development in Banchory. Gillian Simpson leads the practice.

MacRoberts LLP represented WRG Waste Services in a planning inquiry into Aberdeenshire Council’s refusal to extend the lifespan of the Wester Hatton landfill project. Moray Thomson was promoted to partner and head of the planning group in 2011.

With its well-established reputation in oil and gas, Aberdeen-based Paull & Williamsons LLP recently advised Total E&P UK regarding the proposed erection of a gas processing plant. Elaine Farquharson-Black leads the practice.

Recent work for the team at Pinsent Masons LLP includes advising National Grid Property Holdings Limited on the planning aspects of the demolition of a former gasworks site in Edinburgh. Gordon McCreath advised City of Edinburgh Council and Midlothian Council on their joint residual waste facility procurement project. Jacqueline Harris is also recommended.

Anderson Strathern’s ‘collaborative and proactive’ planning team includes Alastair Mckie, ‘one of the leading planning and environmental lawyers in Scotland’. In 2011 it acted for INEOS in the applications for consent to the storage and use of stabilised crude oil at its refinery in Grangemouth.

Burness LLP’s expertise in the renewable energy and retail sectors generates a flow of related planning work. In 2011 it represented North British Windpower in its judicial review of the Scottish Ministers’ decision to grant s36 consent for the Fallago wind farm. Ian Wattie heads the team.

Harper Macleod LLP’s strong public sector offering translates into planning work for clients such as Cairngorns National Park Authority, for which the team acted in a public inquiry in 2011 relating to two separate wind farm applications. Lee Murphy and Pamela Todd are recommended.

Semple Fraser LLP has ‘specialists in various sectors’, most notably energy and retail. Tesco is a key client, and in 2011 the team successfully defended judicial review proceedings against Tesco Extra proposals in East Kilbride and Eccles. June Gillis heads the practice.

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