Acting for Local Planning Authorities in the provision of advice relating to their exercise of regulatory powers and duties relating to planning.
Advising 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 survey in 2017.
Kate achieved a BA (Hons) in Management and Public policy at Brighton University, a Post-graduate Diploma in Law and The Common Professional Examination at The College of Law, London.
Kate trained at a West End construction firm, qualifying in September 2005, she 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 periodically on environmental cases and Councillor conduct issues.
