Lisa Tye > Shoosmiths LLP > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile
Shoosmiths LLP Offices
THE XYZ BUILDING
2 HARDMAN BOULEVARD, SPINNINGFIELDS
MANCHESTER
M3 3AZ
England
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Lisa Tye
Work Department
Planning, highways, compulsory purchase.
Position
Lisa is a partner and joint-head of Shoosmiths’ planning and CPO team, driving the team’s growth forward across the UK.
An experienced planning lawyer, she acts on a broad range of contentious and non-contentious planning matters, including highways matters and compulsory purchase work, drafting and negotiating complex Section 106 agreements, judicial review, footpath/highway closures, infrastructure agreements and village green issues.
She has acted for a mix of public and private clients, including North West Development Agency, Ainscough Strategic Land, Ask Developments, United Utilities, Tesco and the Co-operative Group.
Lisa’s recent project experience includes advising:
• Ainscough Strategic Land on a planning appeal and public inquiry for a 2,300 dwelling scheme in Swindon as part of the New Eastern Villages allocation;
• Vastint on planning and CPO issues in relation to their major mixed use schemes in London, Leeds and Cardiff;
• Story Homes on numerous residential development schemes across the north west; and
• Kingston Council on the regeneration of the Cambridge Road Estate, a major scheme to provide over 2000 new dwellings for the Borough’s residents.
She is identified as a Leading Individual for Planning legal work in the 2018 editions of Legal 500 and Chambers UK, the latter stating interviewees laud her as “a really hard-working and clever lawyer who finds her way around complex problems”.
Impressed clients add “She is great to work with – she breaks things down into plain English and doesn’t baffle with detail. She is also very personable and pleasant, and very good at what she does.”.
Career
Lisa joined Shoosmiths in 2013, having previously worked at Eversheds, DWF and Semple Fraser. She previously spent eight years working in-house for local authorities including Birmingham City Council and the London Borough of Hounslow, a mix of public and private experience that clients find invaluable, as it provides empathy, insights and scope for innovation for projects at the public/private interface.
Education
Irlam High School; Eccles College; Liverpool University, (1992 LLB Hons Class 2:1); Manchester Metropolitan University, (1994 LPC Commendation).
Leisure
Family.
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Real estate > Planning and environment
(Hall of Fame)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.
London > Real estate > Planning
Shoosmiths LLP’s planning team assists a range of national clients at each stage of the planning process. The practice handles a range of contentious and non-contentious matters, from regeneration and CPO schemes, to High Court challenges and enforcement cases. Particular sectors of strength for the group include residential, elderly housing, and care homes. Kathryn Jump and Lisa Tye are the joint national heads of the practice, and Matt Nixon joined the team as legal director in March 2023 from Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP. Karen Howard left the firm in May 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame North West > Real estate > Planning and environment
- Planning and environment North West > Real estate
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