Beauchamps LLP’s planning and environmental team acts for clients from a vast range of sectors, including energy, waste, housing, industrial development, and commercial development. The team advises on all contentious and non-contentious matters related to planning, waste management and environmental law. Practice lead Stuart Conaty regularly assists residential developers and energy companies with consent applications and judicial review proceedings. Other key members of the practice include experienced litigator Sharon Delaney and Ainsley Heffernan, who has extensive expertise in handling complex wind farm, solar PV, energy storage, and aquaculture projects.
Testimonials
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- ‘They are a solutions-orientated firm. They can provide clear advice with an excellent appreciation of the commercial realities facing their clients.’
- ‘On planning matters, I've worked with Stuart Conaty, who provided an excellent service. I've also worked with Ainsley Heffernan, who I would rate as exceptional in this field.’
- 'Stuart Conaty and Ainsley Heffernan were always just a telephone call away, something which is very rare in this climate. They always make you, the client, feel like your issues are their own and your time is just as important as theirs.'
Key clients
- ABO Wind
- ART Generation
- Bord na Móna
- Clúid
- Codling Wind Park
- Dublin City Council
- EDF Renewables
- FuturEnergy Ireland
- Mercury Renewables
- RES Group
- Respond
- RWE Renewables
- Simply Blue Energy Kinsale
- Terra Solar
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
- Western Power
- Wind Energy Ireland
- Source Galileo
- Varia Structured Opportunities II S.A
Work highlights
- Advised Varia Structured Opportunities, as owner of Kildare Innovation Campus, on its proposed €1.6bn redevelopment and extension of the campus for a mix of deep tech, ICT and innovation uses.
- Advised Mercury Renewables on the development of a €200m wind farm and green hydrogen plant in Co Mayo.
- Advised Dublin City Council on its landmark neighbourhood scale redevelopment project of a brownfield site at Emmet Road in Dublin 8.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Stuart Conaty