Claire Smith

Legal Director @Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Leeds, GB

I have 25 years of experience as a planning and environmental specialist advising on planning applications, appeals, consenting strategies, and the drafting and negotiation of complex planning obligations and related infrastructure agreements. My broad practice includes advising on affordable housing, biodiversity net gain, compulsory acquisition and compensation, heritage, environmental impact assessments, community infrastructure levy, planning enforcement, nationally significant infrastructure projects, Transport and Works Act Orders, highways law, clean energy and judicial/statutory reviews. I also draft and negotiate planning provisions within sale/development agreements, conditional contracts and options.I advise across all development sectors, including housebuilding and housing, landowners and promoters, charities and trusts, central government, and local authorities/the public sector, retail, energy, transport, minerals and waste. My extensive experience with local authorities and public sector projects makes me a valuable asset in regeneration initiatives.

Leeds Metropolitan University Law School

LPC Post Graduate Diploma Law

University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France

Diplôme d'Etudes Juridiques Françaises, French Law

Leeds Beckett University

MSc Urban and Rural Planning, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning

University of Manchester - CLT International Distance Learning

STEP Diploma in International Trust Management - Trusts Law & Practice Certificate, International Trust Management

Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd

LLB Law and French