Ms Katy McPhie > Blacks Solicitors LLP > Leeds, England > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Katy McPhie
Work Department
Planning & Highways
Position
Senior Associate Solicitor
Career
Katy McPhie joined Blacks Solicitors as a Senior Associate Solicitor in the Real Estate team in 2020. Katy specialises in planning and highways law.
Katy qualified in 2011 and has broad-ranging experience having worked in both private practice and local government.
Katy has advised landowners, developers, investors, housebuilders and public sector clients on many varied matters including judicial review, development in Green Belt, heritage issues, retail impact assessment, planning enforcement, appeals, environmental impact assessment, Neighbourhood and Local Plan processes, Development Consent Orders and the Community Infrastructure Levy. She has also advised on a diverse range of planning matters relating to acquisitions and refinancing.
Katy has drafted and negotiated various highways agreements and section 106 agreements, including agreements relating to residential developments providing on-site affordable housing, build to rent and co-living schemes, and large-scale retail, leisure and mixed-use developments.
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Real estate > Planning
The team at Blacks Solicitors LLP is commended for offering a ‘fantastic understanding‘ of planning matters, particularly those that concern regeneration and development schemes. Clients instruct the team to advise on planning applications and impact assessments for a diverse range of industrial, residential and mixed-use development projects. Under the leadership of the ‘highly professional and effective’ James Cook, the practice is also instructed to handle an increasing number of energy and mining mandates. At the associate level, Katy McPhie is highly recommended for her expertise in development matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Employment > Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Real estate > Planning
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire