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Planning & Environmental Law Solicitors

One of the most experienced teams of Planning & Environmental Law solicitors in Reading and the Thames Valley, Planning magazine has ranked us among the leading planning law firms nationally.

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Specialist Planning & Environmental Law Solicitors and Legal Advice in Reading & Henley-on-Thames

Land and property are often among the most important assets of any family or individual, while planning is an area that can have a major impact on our surroundings and lives.

Whether you are looking to maximise your land or property’s potential, in terms of both use and value, seeking to challenge a planning decision, or are faced with another issue, our dedicated Planning & Environmental Law team can provide specialist advice to help you achieve the best possible outcome.

Experienced Planning & Environmental Law solicitors

We have significant experience in acting for and working within local authorities, meaning that we have a crucial understanding of how they operate and make decisions. As a client, you will also benefit from our established relationships and experience in working with other professional services firms and advisers in and around the Thames Valley, as well as our hands-on knowledge of the region. These factors can often help to reduce the likelihood and impact of any unforeseen issues or costly delays, resulting in a smoother process and more favourable outcomes.

Blandy & Blandy is ranked among the UK's top 20 Planning Law firms in Planning magazine’s 2023 Planning Law Survey and is consistently recognised as a top tier firm in the UK's leading guides to law firms, Chambers UK and The Legal 500. Partner and team head Karen Jones has also been individually recommended in both guides, with the latter naming her a 'leading individual' in the field, and she is featured in Planning magazine's list of the country's highest rated planning solicitors, in joint 13th place. In the past six years we have been named as a finalist in the ‘Property Law Firm of the Year’ category at the Thames Valley Property Awards three times (2017, 2018 and 2023), winning in 2017. Recently, we were also named ‘Property Law Firm of the Year’ at the 2023 Insider South East Property Awards and shortlisted in the 'Best Law Firm' category at the 2023 Royal Berkshire Property Awards.

Our team also provides expert advice to a wide range of commercial clients. having advised in relation to some of the most strategically important projects in the region and been involved in high profile sites such as Green Park, M4 Junction 11, Reading Station, Thames Valley Science Park and Didcot and Shinfield strategic development locations.

What We Can Help You With

Certificates of Lawfulness & Permitted Development Rights (PDR)
Commercial property
Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPOs)
Development land
Deeds of release & variation
Enforcement appeals & prosecutions
Environmental law
Highways & rights of way
Infrastructure projects
Judicial review & High Court challenges
Listed buildings & conservation areas
Planning applications, appeals & objections
Planning obligations & agreements
Property disputes
Residential property
Strategic planning advice
Town & village greens
Tree preservation orders
Venue licensing
Waste & minerals

Why Choose Us?
LEADING REPUTATION

We have been recognised among the UK's top 15 Planning Law firms and are widely acknowledged as one of the leading firms of solicitors advising on Planning & Environmental Law in the region, with conveniently located offices in Reading, Henley-on-Thames and London.
APPROACHABLE SERVICE

Listening carefully to our clients’ needs and aims, we are committed to providing you with clear, practical, commercially focused and effective legal advice, a responsive and highly personal service and, crucially, value for money.
EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE

Highly experienced in acting for landowners, large and small; local and national developers, waste management companies, education providers and a wide range of businesses, you can trust in our significant expertise and experience.
RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER ADVISERS

Our established relationships and experience in working with lenders and other leading firms, including agents, surveyors and other solicitors, can help to minimise the likelihood and impact of any unforeseen issues or costly delays.
A JOINED UP APPROACH

We provide a comprehensive range of legal services to businesses and their owners, allowing you to manage both your private and commercial needs more effectively using a single law firm.

Our Planning & Environmental Law Solicitors

For expert legal advice call our Planning & Environmental Law team
Reading 0118 951 6800 or Henley-on-Thames 01491 572 323

Karen Jones

Partner, Planning & Environmental Law

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Sabah Siddiq

Associate Solicitor, Planning & Environmental Law

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Deena Radi

Trainee Solicitor

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“Karen Jones is a leader in her field. She has excellent analytical skills and is commercially focussed and client friendly.”

The Legal 500

“Incredibly intelligent and hard-working.”

Chambers UK

“The firm is unique in that it is able to provide a small team of solicitors who are highly informed and skilled. For a firm of this size, it is unusual to find such a team. Moreover, they provide excellent value for money.”

The Legal 500

“Very good and very knowledgeable.”

Chambers UK

“Karen and Sabah were both delightful to work with and Sabah's written opinion was so professionally presented that it made a fundamental difference to discussions with the local planning authority. Blandy & Blandy's involvement saved my client from the significant cost of potentially demolishing a building along with the cost of wasted materials or alternatively having to submit a planning application, the chances of success here being limited. Without their involvement, I am not sure we would have arrived at such an equitable outcome, for both the client and the LPA! A great job done by a great team!”

Planning Consultant

“I find their level of technical knowledge quite staggering.”

Client

“We have found Blandy's to be more efficient and thorough than our previous solicitors.”

Client

“Somewhere it is written that you are considered among the top planning lawyers Good for you, for your firm... and for us!”

Client

“Your decisive letter to the council to which they had no response, despite considerable time to deliberate and research, was the key to our success for which I think and praise you.”

Client

“Thank you very much, I can’t imagine how much patience you must have. When we next apply for planning we’ll be in touch.”

Client

“The information you provided was clear, concise and invaluable. Thank you once again. I shall know what to do and where to go should I ever find myself in this position again.”

Client

“I am very pleased that we opted to engage you/your firm as specialist for this element of our new project. It has been very reassuring to have you dealing with all the other parties involved.”

Client