Leonie works as a Partner, within our London-based Planning and Development team. She has a wealth of experience in delivering major planning permissions and providing strategic advice across a wide range of sectors including higher education, industrial and logistics, residential, mixed-use regeneration and the arts and cultural sector. She specialises in advising on complex planning applications, often in sensitive heritage contexts. Her expertise includes managing major applications, development plan strategies, stakeholder engagement and planning input to regeneration projects.
Key clients
- The Grosvenor Estate
- Landsec
- London and Oriental
- UCL
- UAL
- Unite
- Wates
- Westminster City Council
- London Borough of Camden
Recent projects
- Landsec U&I – advising on the O2 Masterplan project, on the Finchley Road, London, which will deliver 1,800 new homes, together with retail, office and community space set in an extensive new park.
- The Grosvenor Estate – advising on a variety of scale projects across the Mayfair and Belgravia estates including the transformation of Grosvenor Square Gardens. This involves engagement with a wide range of stakeholders and politicians, preparing and negotiating planning permissions and listed building consents and advising on emerging planning policy documents.
- University College London – providing planning advice to UCL on its central London campus which contains many high-grade listed buildings and is largely within the Bloomsbury Conservation Area. The role includes obtaining planning permissions and listed building consents for refurbishment, extension and redevelopment projects for UCL’s buildings and infrastructure. Advised UCL on the masterplan for its new campus, UCL East, on the Olympic Park at Stratford.
- Westminster City Council – working as part of a multi-disciplinary team advising the Council on the redevelopment of a major mixed-use building in central London to re-provide homes and deliver new commercial uses in a sensitive heritage location.
- London Borough of Camden – advising on the regeneration of the West Kentish Town estate to provide some 800 new homes.
- Arts & Culture – has advised a number of cultural institutions on their estates over the years including Tate, the Natural History Museum, the British Library and the British Museum. This has included bringing forward new masterplans, delivering major planning permissions, stakeholder consultation and input to emerging planning policy documents to influence policies and site allocations.
Leonie sits on the NLA’s Planning Expert Panel, and she is a committee member and board director for the Joint Planning Law Conference.
