Environmental, Social and Governance
United Kingdom
19 August 2025
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP‘s planning and infrastructure consenting practice oversees national and regional development projects, including a number of major projects requiring development consent. Spearheading the Midlands team is Laura-Beth Hutton, who has extensive experience handling major development schemes and infrastructure projects, where she chiefly focuses on DCOs. Working across all aspects of planning and consent instructions, Karen Mutton is recommended for her strategic regeneration and infrastructure consenting expertise, whereas Martin Pinnington has recently seen an uptick in his infrastructure practice, where he assists on DCOs and promotions.
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Testimonials
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‘The team's infrastructure capabilities are excellent with a punchy, pragmatic and commercial approach to challenges, which other practices tend to surround in legal speak. Efficient use of trainees and paralegals added value during planning hearings.’
‘Laura-Beth Hutton provided personable, accessible advice, going out of her way to deliver pragmatic solutions, often under intense time pressure.’
‘A resourceful and reliable legal team, always able to attend to clients' needs regardless of how last-minute those may be. Advice is technically impeccable, always covering all possible risks and highlighting solutions appropriately and in plain, easy-to-understand language, which can be equally cascaded to non-legal stakeholders.’
Key clients
- Tritax Big Box Developments
- Rampion Extension Development Limited
- Anglian Water
- L&G Senior Living
- Northland Power
- RWE Renewables UK
- Mansfield District Council
- Paradise Circus
- Blackpool Borough Council
- Pendle Borough Council
Work highlights
Advised Anglian Water in relation to its promotion of a development consent order for the relocation of its sewerage treatment plant to a new site, in the Green Belt, having secured a direction to allow it to be treated as a nationally significant infrastructure project.
Advised Rampion Extension Development Limited in its promotion of a development consent order for an extension to the existing offshore Rampion Windfarm, with an onshore connection passing through part of the South Downs National Park.
Advised Blackpool Borough Council on its promotion of a compulsory purchase of land to deliver a new carbon neutral campus for Blackpool and The Fylde College.
Other key lawyers
Laura-Beth Hutton; Karen Mutton; Martin Pinnington