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Bernadette Hillman

Bernadette Hillman

Partner

020 7405 4600

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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.

“She absolutely understands how to combine commercial and pragmatic solutions to local government work”

“Her clear and delivery focused advice has been a great benefit to our business”

“Bernadette Hillman has great expertise in advising on planning issues in a local government context. She is extremely responsive and provides clear advice on complex and contentious planning concerns”

“She showed great awareness of the local authority environment”

“Bernadette Hillman provided pragmatic and responsive advice on a contentious planning matters. She understood the issues faced by local government assisting with finding a flexible and balanced solution to enable swift progress on a particular development.”

  • Central Government
  • Corporate Clients
  • Education Providers
  • Energy Sector
  • Housing Sector
  • Leisure
  • Local Government
  • Waste Sector
  • Environmental Law
  • Judicial review and statutory challenges
  • Planning appeals and disputes
  • Planning applications and agreements
  • Planning related public law issues
  • Regeneration and development

This week, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, announced a series of measures that will affect local government. These measures cover a number of areas from the structuring of future funding settlements to future local government devolution and reorganisation plans. In this article, partners Rachel Murray-Smith, Peter Collins and Bernadette Hillman consider the impacts…

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