Specialist planning and highway lawyer joins ever-growing team

Mark Iveson has joined the highly successful Commercial Real Estate team at JMW as a planning and highway partner.

He comes to the firm from the Manchester office of law firm Gateley, where he held the position of legal director. Mark brings to the team extensive expertise in planning and highways, his practice including related local government, compulsory purchase and environmental issues.

Mark has worked with many of the region and country’s top-ranked developers, house builders and consultants and is also well known for his work in North Wales. Working on a national basis as required, his caseload includes planning appeals, complex statutory agreements, strategic advice, applications, BNG, CIL, BTR, social housing, heritage, viability, enforcement, scheme specific advice and court litigation (judicial review and statutory challenge).

Mark, who is ranked in the prestigious legal directory The Legal 500, has particular experience in acting on large mixed-use development and residential led schemes. Notable recent success came late last year at appeal in relation to a large housing, local centre, BNG and link road scheme, being the first phase of a strategic allocation.

“The legislative and policy landscape of planning is constantly changing and the success of many projects depends on quickly understanding, and interpreting, and adapting to the challenges such changes bring,” he said.

“JMW is known as an entrepreneurial firm with a strong reputation for excellence and a genuine commitment to its clients. The team maintains excellent relationships with developers and I am looking forward to assisting clients to not only work successfully with current system, but also to seize the many opportunities inherent in the changes”.

“It’s also a particular pleasure to reunite at JMW with colleagues I have known through previous roles. It’s a highly successful team and I’m delighted to be a part of it,” he added.

Thomas Pearson, head of JMW’s Commercial Real Estate team, said: “We are one of the largest specialist Commercial Real Estate teams in the North West and I look forward to working alongside Mark as we continue to support long-standing clients across the UK, while also welcoming many new ones.

“We have an extremely busy period ahead of us and Mark will play a significant role in delivering the very best advice to clients.”