James Ryan

Planning & Environmental

Jim is an experienced specialist town and country planning lawyer whose practice also includes contentious matters, compulsory purchase, highway law, rights of way and the law of commons, and town and village greens.

Jim also provides planning advice to lenders of development finance as part of the lenders’ necessary due diligence processes.

His early career was spent as an engineering technician in local government and then as an infrastructure designer in the housebuilding industry, before reading for a law degree at UWE Bristol and subsequently training with Burges Salmon in Bristol.

In June 2010, Jim was appointed to an in-house role as Head of Legal Services to M J Gleeson Group plc, a role he held until the end of 2014.

Expertise:

Town and Country Planning (with a bias towards contentious matters) Compulsory Purchase The law of Highways and Rights of Way The law of Commons and Town and Village Greens