Bernadette Hillman

Bernadette is a planning and environmental solicitor with thirty years experience working as a lawyer and a planner in London and the regions, in private practice and in-house.

She offers specialist advice on all aspects of planning and related public law issues in relation to major mixed-use developments.

Bernadette has a wide-ranging planning practice, contentious and non-contentious, dealing with mixed-use retail/leisure, housing assets, green Belt, village greens, assets of community value, rights of light issues, in the London Boroughs, Central London and the surrounding Counties.

Bernadette’s role:

Bernadette advises local authorities on a range of planning matters. She has notable expertise in a number of areas including urban development, infrastructure matters and highways. Her advice is regularly sought on Section 106 agreements and Environmental impact assessments. She conducts planning appeals, judicial reviews and statutory challenges in the High Court of Appeal and defences to enforcement and listed building prosecutions.

Skills and strengths:

Bernadette is an active networker, a member of many industry bodies and lectures regularly on planning law topics to clients, surveyors, planning consultants, planning councillors and developers.

She provides robust and straightforward advice in a very clear, concise and timely manner. Bernadette’s clients know that they will get legal drafting that works.