Karen is a Partner within the Planning and Infrastructure Consenting Team.
Karen works across all aspects of the planning and consenting regimes with focus on renewable energy, and strategic housing and regeneration projects.
Karen regularly advises on the consenting and implementation of renewable energy projects, through a range of statutory regimes.
She also maintains a more traditional planning practice, focussing on the delivery of strategic scale housing and mixed use development, and town centre regeneration including delivery of associated infrastructure schemes and the settlement of associated complex legal agreements.
Karen's recent work includes
- promotion of a Transport and Works Act Order for a tidal demonstration zone off Anglesey
- promotion of an application for development consent for an offshore wind farm
- advising applicants in relation to the preparation of applications for development consent for a floating wind projects, a solar farm and for a power station with carbon capture technology, including audits of application documents
- advising a developer in relation to implementation of a major mixed use development in Birmingham City Centre
- advising a developer in relation to securing consent for large scale purpose built student accommodation in Birmingham City Centre
- advising applicants in relation to appeals against non-determination of applications for strategic housing led mixed use developments
- leading planning input to due diligence for both acquisition and disposal of large scale energy portfolios including the acquisition of a portfolio consisting of 53 operating solar farms in the UK
- LLB, University of Leicester
- Diploma in Legal Practice, Nottingham Law School
- Law Society Diploma in Local Government Law and Practice