Recognised for ‘wide range of quality work’, Freeths LLP provides clients with planning consultancy and expertise in planning and environmental law across all development sectors. The team advises on strategic development, major infrastructure projects, and planning applications, as well as environmental regulatory actions, offering compliance guidance and solutions to overcome environmental constraints in planning applications. The ’brilliant’ Alison Ogley, who leads the team, focuses on civil environmental matters, including judicial reviews, high court challenges and environmental permit appeals.
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Testimonials
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- 'Alison Ogley is brilliant and leads a strong team.'
- 'Really good firm to work with - wide range of quality work - in several locations in the country. Real expertise in residential, retail, industrial and DCO work. Excellent leadership and advise form a very effective team.'
- 'Alison Ogley - huge planning and DCO expertise. Very calm and capable. Clear advice and decisive. Excellent and reassuring with clients. Alison heading the Leeds office is a real boost to the firm.'
- 'Alison is extremely knowledgeable in her field and provides advice which is clear and succinct.'
- 'The team are extremely thorough in their advice and leave no stone unturned when examining complex issues.'
Key clients
- Welbeck Waste Management Ltd
- FCC Environment Ltd
- Mole Valley District Council
Work highlights
Advised Welbeck Waste Management Ltd at a planning inquiry for a landfill site whose operations are worth over £50m to the client.
Advised Woodall Homes Ltd at a planning inquiry, successfully obtaining planning permission for residential development on a greenfield site at Ashbourne.
Advised Mole Valley District Council in a planning enforcement matter in the Magistrates Court.
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Practice head
Alison Ogley
Other key lawyers
Emma Conwell; Katie Le Boutillier; Sam Kharabanda Groom