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Melanie Grimshaw

Partner

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What can I do for you

Melanie advises on planning and compulsory purchase across a range of development, including the promotion of new communities and regeneration projects as well as renewable energy projects. Melanie advises on planning strategy, environmental impact assessment, section 106 agreements, judicial review and statutory challenge.

Melanie's energy and infrastructure experience includes advising on nationally significant infrastructure projects promoted under the Planning Act 2008, as well as Transport and Works Act Orders.

 

Supporting your ambitions

Melanie Grimshaw is recognised for her work in development planning, highways and compulsory purchase. She has particular experience working with clients in the transport and energy sectors, including renewables.

Melanie is known for her personable and collaborative approach with her clients. Melanie will get to know you and your business to ensure that she becomes an extension of your team, supporting your ambitions and not simply your "external" lawyer.

What do others say

“Melanie Grimshaw is genuinely the best planning lawyer I’ve ever worked with” Legal 500

Clients say that "Melanie has the commercial ability to advise me on what I can ignore and what I have to look at. When something is important, she lets me know".

What our clients say about us

  • I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.
  • They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.
  • All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.
  • I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.

As many clients will testify, too many lawyers deliver the required legal expertise but fail to deliver an outstanding client experience. Which is why we always listen to our clients and constantly ask ourselves what we can do to deliver the results you expect.

You expect a close and attentive working relationship, with a lawyer that is responsive and available when you need them. You also want clear, pragmatic and commercial advice tailored to your needs, and transparency and certainty on costs. We completely agree. That’s why every day, through our culture and approach we are committed to delivering the exceptional results and service our clients expect of us.

Related sectors and services

  • Real estate
  • Energy and infrastructure
  • Planning law

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