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Stuart Daniel Andrews

Partner
Head of National Planning Team

Stuart is a Specialist Planning and Consenting Lawyer in our London ofice and leads the National Planning Team at Eversheds Sutherland LLP. 

He has been practicing as a specialist planning lawyer for nearly 30 years and has an extensive background in the resolution of planning obstacles and disputes in the delivery of every form of development.

His experience includes major energy and infrastructure projects, town center and housing renewal schemes, large urban regeneration projects and strategic residential development proposals. He has particular experience in the promotion of redevelopment projects involving complex compulsory purchase orders, substantial highway orders and associated environmental assessment. This experience has involved the conduct of major development projects through application, appeal and other proceedings. Stuart is an experienced advocate and has extensive experience in the negotiation and drafting of complex planning agreements. He also has considerable experience in all aspects of appeal court proceedings, including judicial review.

Stuart is:

  • described in Chambers as being singled out for combining "outstanding legal and commercial good sense with an approachable manner"
  • described by competitors as "… one of the people I would least like to see on the other side at an inquiry"
  • consistently listed in the top 10 planning lawyers in the UK by Planning magazine

Stuart's recent experience includes:

  • advising in connection with the Section 106 Agreement required for the development of the Garden Village at Ebbsfleet
  • the promotion of an outline planning application scheme for the redevelopment of the former RAF Uxbridge, London
  • securing planning permission for the major mixed use redevelopment at Old Kent Road, London
  • the redevelopment of Twickenham Station
  • the successful promotion of multiple applications to secure planning consent for the development of interconnectors between the UK and Denmark and Norway
  • advising on the proposed sustainable urban extension of some 5,500 houses to the south east of Milton Keynes

Ranked n Chambers UK 2019

  • Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute
  • Member of The Law Society 
  • Trustee of the Town and Country Planning Association
  • Secretray to the Land Promoters and Developers Federation
  • Dual qualified as a Town Planner and a Solicitor
Stuart Andrews

Partner

Head of National Planning Team

Stuart Andrews

Partner

Head of National Planning Team

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