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Karen Jones

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Work Department

Planning and Environmental Law

Position

Karen Jones is a partner in the Planning and Environmental team at Blandy & Blandy and a highly regarded planning and environmental lawyer with over 30 years’ experience.

Karen’s expertise includes strategic planning advice, planning appeals, public inquiries and environmental law, particularly nature conservation law.

She has practised as a parliamentary lawyer and had considerable involvement in The Channel Tunnel Rail Link project. Karen has also worked in Local Government (in roles including interim head of legal and solicitor to the council), where the majority of her projects involved significant planning, environmental and conservation considerations.

Karen has published a practitioner’s guide, Conservation and Land Use (2000) and written articles for sector journals, including a regular column in Waste Planning, while also featuring in the media.

Karen is a legal associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute (LARTPI) and holds both an LLB (Hons) Law and LLM Environmental Law from University College London. She previously taught at the College of Law and has lectured at the University of Reading’s renowned School of Real Estate & Planning, part of Henley Business School.

Career

Joined Blandy & Blandy in 2005.

Languages

English

Memberships

  • Legal Associate, Royal Town Planning Institute (LARTPI)
  • Member, UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA)
  • Member, Country Landowners’ Association (CLA)
  • Member, The Law Society

Education

  • University College London, LLB
  • University College London, LLM Environmental Law

Lawyer Rankings

South East > Real estate > Environment and planning

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Karen Jones – Blandy & Blandy LLP

The Blandy & Blandy LLP team’s knowledge of planning and environmental law is ‘first class’; the group combines its expertise in section 106 agreements with complex SANG agreements and nitrate credit schemes. With a client roster spanning universities, construction companies, and music venues,‘brilliant’ Reading-based practice head Karen Jones specialises in providing strategic planning advice, as well as acting in appeals and public inquiries. Sabah Siddiq, who joined the team as an associate from Blake Morgan LLP in August 2022, regularly handles judicial reviews.

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