New Partner for Cushman & Wakefield’s Development & Planning team

Neil Lawrence, Partner, Cushman & Wakefield UK Development & Planning team.

Central London planning specialist Neil Lawrence has joined Cushman & Wakefield’s growing UK Development & Planning team as a Partner, based in London.

Neil joins Cushman & Wakefield with over 18 years’ specialist planning experience from Gerald Eve. His experience includes acting on a range of mixed use, residential and commercial projects across central London for clients such as Almacantar, the Portman Estate, Ballymore and Tishman Speyer. Neil has extensive experience in securing planning permissions for high-density developments in Westminster such as Marble Arch Place, the Verde office redevelopment and advising on tall buildings in Docklands.

Neil Lawrence, Partner, Development & Planning at Cushman & Wakefield, said: “This year changing policy, including the emerging new London Plan and Westminster City Plan, represent key opportunities and challenges for our clients and areas where Cushman & Wakefield’s depth of expertise and fully-integrated property offering can add significant value.”

Tim Johnson, Partner, Cushman & Wakefield, who leads the Development & Planning team in London said: “Neil is an experienced planning professional whose arrival will benefit our clients and builds upon the momentum driving the growth of our Planning team across the UK.”