Overview
I am a Senior Associate in Michelmores’ Agriculture team. I work with both private and corporate clients on a wide spectrum of matters affecting their property interests and businesses.
The Agriculture team at Michelmores work with an array of different clients on a broad range of matters. My work since joining Michelmores in 2024 has focussed on Natural Capital. This is a developing area of law, which requires innovative thinking to build on established ways of working to deliver sustainable environmental benefits in a workable commercial framework – a task I enjoy immensely and seeing the environmental benefits that are being derived from the Natural Capital projects Michelmores is involved in is also very rewarding.
I have been part of the team at Michelmores since Spring 2024, having spent more than a decade in private practice in commercial property (advising on the property aspects of several renewable energy projects, both large scale biomass projects and anaerobic digestion plants (feeding both electricity and gas to the national grid)) and more recently working with the in-house property team at the Environment Agency, focussing primarily on the acquisition of property interests to facilitate the delivery of large-scale infrastructure projects through the use of compulsory purchase orders or transport and works act or development consent orders and the creation of intertidal habitat, which has delivered clear biodiversity and wildlife benefits within a relatively short time.
Recent experience
Working with several Round 1 and Round 2 Landscape Recovery Projects seeking Defra funding to facilitate landscape scale environmental improvements and benefits
Advising a charitable foundation in relation to an opportunity to create, manage and monitor approximately 30 hectares of land generating intertidal habitat gains for sale of ecosystem services
Advising a company on Section 106 obligations relating to the creation and enhancement of mixed habitat to be managed and monitored for 30 years anticipated to generate in excess of 200 BNG units for sale
Supporting an organisation in its application to become a Responsible Body and providing template documents to be entered into with landowners to secure long term environmental gain and platform for the sale of ecosystem services
Advising an estate company in the North of England in relation to the construction of infrastructure on parts of the estate that will provide immediate environmental benefits and additional potential ecosystem services in the longer term
