Your challenges
Our dedicated environment team understands your need for robust, practical legal solutions. Environmental issues are at the forefront of issues faced by our local authority clients and it is important that your advisors are able to work closely with you to ensure that there is strict compliance with the ever-evolving regulatory framework. We understand the regulatory requirements, for example, in connection with Pollution Prevention and Control Permits.
Achieving your ambitions
Whether you need advice on contaminated land, investigations and prosecutions, due-diligence work or the non-contentious side of health and safety, then our team has the expertise that you need. For example, we have advised a large London borough council on environmental problems on one of its housing estates, which also involved working closing with the public to allay concerns.
Other recent cases include defence of a prosecution for the pollution of a stream, appeals for waste management and engineering clients, advice on proposed new regulations to implement the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment EU Directive, advising trade organisations on the implementation of EU Directives on marine dredging and habitat protection. We also provide in-house training for clients on health and safety and environmental compliance issues.
Whatever your needs, we can help. We understand the need to ensure that our advice is practical and takes account of the complex political landscape in which our local authority clients must operate.
The strength you need
Our dedicated environment team is lead by associate Rebecca Carriage, who is ranked by both major legal directories as a leader in her field. The team is praised for its “'exceedingly helpful advice’ and ‘fast, proactive solutions’”.
You will also have access to a range of specialists in related areas such as planning, projects and regulatory, ensuring that you get a complete service.