Carolyn Lord > Clarion > Leeds, England > Lawyer Profile
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ELIZABETH HOUSE
13-19 QUEEN STREET
LEEDS
LS1 2TW
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Carolyn Lord
Work Department
Planning
Position
Partner and Head of Planning.
Considered by clients to be a first-rate planning lawyer with strong planning legal skills coupled with an ability to make things happen, Carolyn has over 30 years’ experience in planning and related areas of law. Carolyn has an excellent reputation for being thorough, pragmatic and personable. Carolyn takes pride in her ability to anchor and co-ordinate consultant teams but also to act as an effective team member.
Carolyn has particular expertise in advising on large or challenging sites with legal planning or highway complexities and she brings experienced, detailed involvement in and practical knowledge of the entire development process. Clients describe her as persistent in trouble-shooting and following a job through, coupled with focused attention to detail, effective strategic thinking and sensitive stakeholder management. She has worked across the country with a number of prominent developer and infrastructure clients on major brownfield and greenfield projects, including residential, commercial, education, leisure and retail, rail, waste and waste water, energy, minerals and aggregates-related work.
Her experience spans projects on key heritage sites and protected wildlife areas as well as those with rights of way and highway issues. She advises on contentious judicial review and enforcement matters as well as dealing with complex planning and highway legal agreements.
Memberships
As an active member of the wider community, Carolyn is Chair of the Board of Leeds Conservatoire, a member of the Board of Luminate Education Group and a trustee of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Carolyn has been appointed since 1999 as a member of independent remuneration panels for local authorities in Leeds and West Yorkshire, was lay chair of the Standards Committee of the West Yorkshire Integrated Transport Authority and is now the Independent Person for the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
She is co-founder of Leeds Fashion Works and Yorkshire Textiles, two initiatives that since 2009 have successfully catalysed the highlighting of the region’s fashion and textiles industries on the international stage for innovation and economic growth. She has regularly promoted and fostered schemes for learning and skills training for local people when opportunities arise with clients or other contacts.
Lawyer Rankings
Yorkshire and the Humber > Real estate > Planning
Clarion acquired planning boutique LB & Co in spring 2023, a deal which saw highly experienced duo Carolyn Lord and Kate Butterfield join the Leeds firm’s real estate group. Lord is known for her ‘creative approach to site development projects’ and ‘an eye for effective public sector stakeholder engagement’, while Butterfield is praised for her ‘incisive legal advice���. Their track record of work covers applications and appeals, highway and rights of way law, and compulsory purchase orders.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Private client > Family: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Real estate > Commercial property: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Leeds, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
- Projects, energy and natural resources (including PFI) > Energy and projects
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Employment > Employment: Leeds and West Yorkshire; North Yorkshire
- Employment > Health and safety
- Real estate > Planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Real estate > Construction
- Real estate > Property litigation