Paul Wakefield > Shakespeare Martineau LLP > Nottingham, England > Lawyer Profile
Shakespeare Martineau LLP Offices
WATERFRONT HOUSE
WATERFRONT PLAZA, 35 STATION STREET
35 Station Street
NG2 3DQ
England
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Paul Wakefield
Work Department
Planning
Position
Partner
Career
Paul is a specialist planning solicitor who focusses on delivering practical solutions for his clients.
His work covers all aspects of the planning process, from strategic advice and drafting section 106 obligations and other planning and infrastructure agreements through to planning appeals and advocacy.
A Legal Associate of the RTPI, Paul also advises on Town and Village Greens and Assets of Community Value.
“I love the fact that planning plays such an important part in the national political landscape. I really enjoy helping clients to solve problems through the planning system. “
Lawyer Rankings
East Midlands > Real estate > Planning and environment
(Next Generation Partners)Shakespeare Martineau LLP ‘promptly and effectively‘ advises landowners, developers and local planning authorities on all planning-related issues, such s.106 and highway agreements, and including planning prosecutions, injunctions, judicial review and statutory challenges. The team, headed by Simon Stanion, further provides planning due diligence support on corporate and real estate transactions. Paul Wakefield ‘expertly‘ steers clients through ‘all the knotty planning issues accompanying sustainable urban extensions projects‘, and his ‘knowledge of complex Section 106 agreements‘ keeps clients ‘going back to him‘. ‘Very proactive‘ associate Kylie Wesson acts on both contentious and non-contentious planning matters.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners - East Midlands > Real estate > Planning and environment
- Planning and environment - East Midlands > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Real estate > Commercial property: Nottingham and Derby
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Elsewhere in East Midlands
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Insurance > Personal injury and clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the East Midlands
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Nottingham and Derby
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Nottingham and Derby
- Employment > Employment
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Insurance > Professional negligence