Acting for a variety of local authorities in the provision of advice relating to their exercise of regulatory powers and their duties relating to planning.
Advising in situ at Planning (Development Control) Committees across mid-Kent (Swale, Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells and Sevenoaks).
Drafting and negotiating complex multi-party section 106 agreements for key/strategic medium and large mixed development sites in West Kent.
Kate was placed in the Top 5 Local Authority Planning Solicitors in a nationwide industry-based survey in 2017
After training at West End construction firm, Beale & Company LLP, qualifying in 2005, Kate established herself as a planning solicitor in the public sector, most notably as Team Leader for Mid Kent Legal Services which provides advice for three local authorities in Kent, heading up a team of planning solicitors, and achieving her position as one of the highest ranking local authority planning solicitors in the country.
Kate arrived at Thomson Snell & Passmore in 2018, directly from Sevenoaks District Council where she was the principal planning solicitor for the authority. She also advised occasionally on environmental cases and member standards and conduct issues.
