The ‘excellent, personable, and knowledgeable team’ at Blandy & Blandy LLP brings particular expertise on complex residential planning, highways, and environmental issues. Combining a ’personal and friendly approach’ with ‘rigorous and forensic’ legal skills, Karen Jones heads the planning and environment practice and is an expert across planning advice and appeals, and environmental law. Counting major property developers and landowners among her clients, Jones assists in negotiating section 106 agreements and highway development agreements concerning residential and commercial developments. Sabah Siddiq left the firm.
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- 'An excellent, personable, and knowledgeable team. A really good local presence as well as experience which extends across a large geographic area.'
- 'Good overall performance and responsiveness, with good insights into problems.'
- 'Communication and collaboration with the client is excellent.'
- 'I use Blandy & Blandy for specialist planning advice, in that respect they have a team who have a broad depth of knowledge on what is a tricky subject. With various changes to planning legislation, the team at Blandy & Blandy keep up to date and able to offer good advice.'
- 'I have been really impressed by Blandy & Blandy's planning law team. They are incredibly keen to stay connected with clients and, most importantly, offer a very fine service.'
- 'Blandy & Blandy offer a real human touch, with the team keen to maintain high levels of client satisfaction.'
Key clients
- Hargreaves Homes Limited
- MRJ Homes Limited
- Collard Group
- Elegant Homes Reading Limited
- Blenheim Construction Limited
- Englefield Estate Trust Corporation Limited
- Rumsby Homes Limited
- Cove Construction Limited
- Raft Technologies Limited
- The Hartley Trust
Work highlights
Advised Ratesu Limited in respect of an application for planning permission in the green belt for sensitive data transmission equipment.
Acting for housebuilder MRJ Homes on a s278 Agreement which had been a preoccupation requirement in connection with a residential development of four dwellings.
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Practice head
Karen Jones