Irwin Mitchell has expanded its planning and environmental team with the recruitment of Pamela Chesterman as a new partner
Pamela Chesterman has joined Irwin Mitchell’s planning and environment team, bringing the team to thirteen.
The P&E Team sits within Irwin Mitchell’s property division, which will now consist 28 partners and over 150 qualified lawyers.
Pamela has extensive experience in planning law across both residential and non-domestic sectors
Pamela joins from Brabners and has experience across a wide area of environmental and planning law, particularly in the development sector, advising on housing and commercial-led development.
She is also an authority on local government issues, having worked at various local authorities in the Northwest.
Currently, she is also retained by a large car park management company to provide planning and advertisement legal advice – acting as their agent in applying for planning permission, advertisement consent and listed building consent, where necessary, for large heritage estates which wish to use their service to provide remote parking solutions to existing car park sites.
Pamela will be based in Irwin Mitchell’s recently established Liverpool and existing Manchester offices, supporting Irwin Mitchell’s clients in that region and nationally.
The appointment is the latest in a series of new hires for Irwin Mitchell
Adrian Barlow, director of property legal services at Irwin Mitchell, said: “Both planning and environment are currently fast-moving disciplines where our clients need up-to-date and strategic legal advice to keep ahead of the game, particularly at a time of political change.
“Pamela will play an important part in helping us to fulfil Irwin Mitchell’s ambition to provide first-class advice to clients. She comes with great hands-on experience, especially her in-depth knowledge of both local government and the development sector and will be a great asset to the P&E practice and the wider property department.”
The P&E team has this year been boosted by the recruitment of Jill Crawford, Senior Associate and environmental specialist, in February, which was hot on the heels of Tracy Lovejoy joining as a planning senior associate in Birmingham and Victoria Tague as a planning associate in Manchester.
