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Rebecca Stewart

Rebecca Stewart

Senior Associate

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Rebecca is a planning specialist, carrying out a wide range of planning work at the firm. She is consistently recognised as a key lawyer within the planning team in the Legal 500 rankings.

Rebecca’s role:

Rebecca acts for local authorities on drafting and negotiating Section 106 and highway agreements and has led and provided vital input on a number of complex, significant projects. She regularly advises local authorities in relation to decision-making, legal challenges and planning enforcement issues.

Rebecca also works for developers and private individuals/action groups and has drafted a number of successful objection letters opposing schemes.

Before joining Sharpe Pritchard Rebecca trained and worked at a top-tier environmental, planning and public law firm, where she worked on judicial and statutory review claims and nuisance proceedings, as well as matters concerning public rights of way, village greens and commons.

She has a breadth of experience across the planning practice and is able to offer guidance, support and representation to clients in a variety of transactional and contentious matters.

I can only speak very highly of Rebecca and her professional skills and abilities

Private Client

Rebecca and Nona were fantastic all throughout trying to get quite a difficult agreement over the line. I was kept updated throughout which was great over such a lengthy project.

Highway Authority

Emily & Rebecca were extremely approachable, informative and relatable... They helped us achieve the best position possible… Should we require further assistance in the future, we would not hesitate to consult with Emily & Rebecca – an honest and forthright team.

Private Client

  • Local Government
  • Environmental law
  • Highways
  • Infrastructure Authorisation
  • Judicial Review
  • Litigation
  • Planning appeals and disputes
  • Planning applications and agreements
  • Public Law
  • Real Estate, Planning and Regeneration
  • Regeneration and development
  • Supreme Court and Privy Council
  • Drafting and negotiating  (on behalf of the local planning authority) as part of an appeal the Section 106 agreement for the former Wisley Airfield development, a hybrid application for up to 1,730 new homes and other infrastructure forming the predominant part of a new settlement on an allocated site.
  • Drafting/negotiating a s106 agreement for a GLA referable scheme including the delivery of a new gateway education facility and substantial affordable housing within a London Borough;
  • Drafting and negotiating a combined s278/38 highway agreement in connection with the delivery of the new Oval Village next to the Oval Cricket Ground involving the delivery of multi-phased works across a 5-year time period;
  • Drafting grounds of challenge for a pre-action letter in respect of a new residential development leading to an LPA’s consent to judgment and quashing of the impugned decision by the High Court
  • Preparing a Planning Statement to support an application for change of use
  • Drafting planning objections for a group of residents opposing a large supermarket in an AONB leading to scheme withdrawal and LPA refusal of the scheme on resubmission
  • Advising a Parish Council in relation to a public right of way and maintenance liability

NPPF 2026: Key Planning Reforms for LPAs and Developers

20 August 2026

With the NPPF 2026 now in force, the planning rulebook has shifted decisively. Rebecca Stewart takes a first look at what some of the changes mean for LPAs and developers. On 17 August, the Government published its much-anticipated new National Planning Policy Framework (“NPPF 2026”), introducing a suite of changes to national planning policy. Through... Read more

Planning and Infrastructure Bill – Planning Decisions

18 March 2025

On 11 March 2025, the Government introduced the Planning and Infrastructure Bill into Parliament with a promise to speed up planning decisions and ‘get Britain building’. Sharpe Pritchard’s Planning and Parliamentary team have been analysing the likely implications of the Bill in recent weeks. The focus of this article is on the aspects of the…

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