Marianne Barker

Marianne advises on all aspects of planning law

A partner in the planning team with over 20 years’ experience of contentious and non-contentious planning law, Marianne provides strategic planning advice. She specialises in complex Section 106 Agreements for major, residential led mixed use development schemes, both for PLC housebuilders and SMEs.

Marianne works for both private and public sector clients, in the context of brownfield, urban development (with experience in heritage issues, BSA requirements and BTR) and greenfield development (with experience in grey belt/green belt designation, flood risk, ecology constraints and Man Co arrangements) and generally in relation to scheme viability, BNG and CIL.

Marianne is based out of our London office and has worked on numerous large-scale urban projects in London that were referrable to the GLA.

How Marianne can help you

Marianne has a reputation as a solution focussed practitioner who provides high quality, legal and commercial advice to clients and is a technical expert on planning law within her team. She keeps on top of how the legal, political and regulatory landscape is changing to ensure she knows about anything that might affect her clients.

• Planning input for town centre regeneration schemes
• Negotiating complex infrastructure agreements to deliver major planning consents
• Residential led, mixed use development schemes
• Scheme viability
• Affordable housing
• Build to rent and later living sectors.
• Permitted Development rights
• Community Infrastructure Levy
• Green belt release
• Heritage
• Judicial and statutory review of planning decisions
• Negotiating planning applications with local planning authorities and planning appeals (written representations, hearings, public inquiries)