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ONE FRIAR STREET, READING, RG1 1DA, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 0118 951 6800
Fax:
Fax 0118 951 6813
DX:
4008 READING
Web:
www.blandy.co.uk
Email:

Karen Jones

Tel:
Work +44 118 951 6864
Email:
Blandy & Blandy LLP

Work Department

Planning and environmental.

Position

Partner specialising in planning and environmental law within a department of four (two partners, two assistants). Important cases: contaminated land for prominent site on North Circular Road in LB of Brent; waste prosecution by EA (three-week Crown Court trial) multiple defendants’ questions of definition of waste, client acquitted; lawful development certificate application for a charitable trust holding leisure activities on its land; lawful development certificate application for large area in use for private recreational purposes; major enforcement inquiry for green belt site. Publication of note: book ‘Conservation and Land Use’ (published 2000).

Career

Trained at Sharpe Pritchard, London; Winckworth & Pemberton, London; North Warwickshire Borough Council; solicitor to Lichfield District Council; joined Blandy & Blandy 2005.

Member

Law Society; Royal Town Planning Institute (legal associate); UK Environmental Law Association.

Education

Chiltern Edge Secondary School, Sonning Common; Henley on Thames College; University College, London (LLB 1986; LLM 1997).

Leisure

House and garden, walking holidays, jogging and travel.

Practice Areas

Environment; Planning

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