Christian Drage
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Work Department
Planning and environment.
Position
Partner specialising in advice to developers, landowners, public authorities and utility providers on planning, public and environmental law and strategy. His work focuses on large-scale planning applications; appeals; planning and highway agreements in connection with business parks, retail centres, infrastructure projects and large scale residential and regeneration developments; statutory processes (DCOs for nationally significant infrastructure projects, compulsory purchase and highway closure/creation); site assemblies environmental impact assessment; environmental aspects of corporate transactions; enforcement; planning policy; Lands Tribunal references and judicial review. Recent examples include being on the strategic advisory panel to National Grid; advising financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, RBS, and Barclays; Ebbsfleet (Blue Circle and Land Securities); Eastern Quarry (Land Securities); Victoria (Land Securities); Chelsea Barracks (Qatari Diar); Barking Riverside (HCA/Bellway); Blackwall Reach (Tower Hamlets); Merseytram (Liverpool City Council); major retail developments (Tesco); Severnside (ICI); drought orders (Sutton and East Surrey Water); and water treatment works (Southern Water).
Career
Trained Berwin Leighton (now Berwin Leighton paisner LLP), qualified 2000, partner 2007.
Education
Wollaston High School; College of Law, Guildford (CPE; postgraduate diploma in law; postgraduate diploma in legal practice); University of Leicester (1995 BA Hons geography).
Leisure
Family, most sports and cars.
Practice Areas
Administrative and public law; Environment; Planning
