David Mathias > Shoosmiths LLP > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile
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David Mathias
Work Department
Real Estate, Partner
Position
David is a specialist planning solicitor with over ten years’ experience acting for a range of both public and private sector clients on all aspects of planning and related law.
David has particular expertise in advising on the assembly of sites for infrastructure and regeneration projects and has led multi-disciplinary teams of professionals through all stages of the planning and infrastructure consents process.
David’s recent experience includes:
• advising Nottinghamshire County Council in relation to the promotion of a compulsory purchase order and associated side roads order for a major highways scheme delivering a 3.8km road running adjacent to the village of Gedling, unlocking the redevelopment of the Gedling Colliery site to provide over 1,000 dwellings together with a variety of employment uses;
• advising Walsall Council in relation to a major highway improvement scheme affecting Junction 10 of the M6. The £64.5 million scheme is being promoted by the Council in partnership with Highways England and required the making of two compulsory purchase orders, a side roads order and a special roads scheme in order to secure the land and necessary powers required to improve this heavily congested section of strategic highway;
• advising Liverpool City Council on the development proposals for its £1.8 billion Paddington Village Scheme, delivering upwards of 1 million sq ft of new mixed-use floor space within the Knowledge Quarter in central Liverpool;
• advising Cheshire East Council on the CPOs required to deliver £131 million of highways schemes including Sydney Road Bridge, Middlewich Eastern Bypass and the A500 Dualling Scheme; and
• advising City of York Council on the promotion of a proposed compulsory purchase order for a £38 million project to improve York’s Outer Ring Road.
Career
David joined Shoosmiths in November 2019 after spending five years in Weightmans’ Manchester planning team. He trained and qualified at DLA Piper in Liverpool in 2010.
Languages
David is a member of the Compulsory Purchase Association.
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Real estate > Planning and environment
Shoosmiths LLP‘s ‘well-rounded’ Manchester practice is co-headed by the firm’s national heads of planning, being the ‘exceptionally efficient’ Kathryn Jump, Lisa Tye, and David Mathias, who regularly handles significant CPO work. Legal director Samantha Grange has expertise in CPO objection and compensation work, and the team is formed of specialist planning lawyers, who exclusively work on a broad range of matters. A notable keystone of the practice is its provision of complex planning and highways advice, particularly involving regeneration projects, a key example being its assisting the Royal Borough of Kingston on its large-scale and high-value council estate demolition and reconstruction.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Manchester
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Manchester
- Real estate > Commercial property: Manchester
- Real estate > Construction
- Employment > Employment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Employment > Pensions
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport