Ian Ginbey

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Ian has extensive experience advising a range of sectors including aviation, residential, commercial, retail and leisure. His work ranges from complex and controversial strategic / infrastructure development projects to heritage property and high-value homeowner projects. Ian advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters, and has secured a number of land-mark legal judgements. He also has considerable experience in defending criminal prosecutions for breaches of planning enforcement and listed building control.

Experience

• Securing planning permission on behalf of Pinewood Studios Limited, for the doubling in size of the world famous Studios facility within the Green Belt
• Retained by the UK division of Hansteen Holdings Plc to advise in the context of its petition against the High Speed Rail (London - West Midlands) Bill
• Advising Corinthian Land Ltd on its proposals for a residential-led (4,000 homes) mixed-use urban extension in Canterbury 
• Retained on a number of major proposed residential-led developments (including urban extensions) in the UK, cumulatively accounting for around 7,000 new homes
• Advising MEPC on the comprehensive redevelopment of land at Silverstone
• Securing planning permission for the comprehensive regeneration of Gravesend town centre in the UK, on a scheme known as the 'Heritage Quarter'
• Advising Grainger in connection with its proposals to regenerate two key gateway sites in Seven Sisters, some of which are the subject of a compulsory purchase order public inquiry in July 2017 and has been the subject of two claims for judicial review
• Advising Dignity plc on numerous proposals for new crematoria on a range of sites in the UK (including planning appeals and claims for judicial review)
• Advising Peel on its proposals to restore a registered park, part of which would facilitate the creation of a world-class golf resort