Stuart Tym

About My Work

Stuart is a Partner in the Planning Team.

Stuart has experience of planning from both the private and public sector. He has a particular expertise in development work both for housing and commercial clients as well as in enabling development and enforcement work. He is experienced in the full breadth of planning work, from assisting in the strategic promotion of sites through the development process including judicial review where necessary.

He is also experienced in compulsory purchase and a member of the CPA.

Clients include national and local / regional housebuilders and developers,, local planning authorities, land promoters, development companies, retail developers and occupiers, investment funds and private individuals.

His public sector work has included advising both district (s.106, affordable housing and viability, planning inquiries and enforcement matters) and county-level planning authorities (waste, coal, minerals, highways) and has been acquired in both a “shared service” and a unitary environment.

Notable Experience

  • Providing strategic advice and acting on the renegotiation of s.106 agreement’s including the reduction of obligations by £1 million for viability reasons as well as sites with complex political issues to be negotiated such as “agent of change”;
  • Providing strategic CIL advice post-lockdown, including obtaining deferrals pursuant to COVID legislation;
  • Preparing Article 4 directions for a Local Authority client, uniquely pairing them with a bespoke Local Development Order to grant back the permitted development rights being removed in a heritage sensitive manner;

Specific Areas of Focus

  • Commercial Developments
  • Construction - Projects
  • Construction - Regulatory
  • Construction - Transactions
  • Enforcement Proceedings
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Sectors

  • Individuals/Personal
  • Investment Funds
  • Investors
  • Land
  • Land Owners
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Employment History

  • Shoosmiths
  • Irwin Mitchell
  • The Wilkes Partnership