Kevin is consistently rated by the Chambers & Partners' guide to top law firms as a leading planning and environmental practitioner, with a particular interest in housing developments, regeneration projects (including CPO work), minerals and waste management schemes, business park schemes, transport developments and energy projects.
He regularly advises house builders, large institutional landowners (including crown agencies), airports, waste management companies, transport operators and industrialists on all aspects of planning and environmental regulations.
Kevin is both a solicitor and a Chartered Town Planner. He is a partner in Osborne Clarke's Environment and Energy Group and heads up the Planning Group in the Bristol office.
Kevin is experienced in the following sectors:
Property Development: Kevin advises clients such as Barratt on planning and infrastructure agreements, appeals, planning applications and general advisory work
Environmental and Energy: Kevin advises on all forms of planning and environmental advice to waste management and renewable energy companies. He regularly advises Cory Environmental Management on planning agreements and appeals, pollution prevention and control authorisations, waste management licensing, waste management contracts and general planning and environmental regulations.
Major corporate and institutional land owners (including crown agencies): Kevin advises corporates such as the Co operative Group and QinetiQ on planning and environmental aspects of their land holdings and transactions involving development of their estates.
Transportation: Kevin advises train operating companies on compulsory purchase powers and compensation matters, and all planning and environmental matters. He also advises on airport developments and regularly advises Bristol International Airport and Leeds Bradford International Airport on their expansion proposals and on specific airport regulations.