Amardip Healy
Legal Director
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My go-to planner at Blake Morgan is Amardip Healy,… She has unique insight into both the public and private sector workings of the planning system, drawing on her a wealth of experience on both sides of the fence.
Amardip specialises in planning law and highways. She has considerable experience negotiating S.106 agreements and providing advice in relation to planning issues including enforcement, appeals and highways matters.
Having spent a large part of her career in the public sector, she was often recognised by the public for her ‘get up and go’ and ‘can-do’ attitude. Her clients now recognise her for being ‘commercially minded and can be counted upon to give sound and practical advice’.
All client groups, be they large companies or individuals, recognise Amardip’s ability to provide efficient and pragmatic solutions, to their planning concerns.
Main areas of practice
- Negotiating a range of planning agreements for retail, commercial and residential sectors, including development and infrastructure agreements in England and Wales. New Sustainable Drainage Systems processes and agreements in Wales.
- Working with public sector partners and registered social landlords to deliver accelerated provision of affordable housing schemes in England and Wales.
- Regularly advises on contentious and non-contentious planning matters for developers and property investors.
- Due diligence and planning advice on commercial and real estate transactions.
- Advising on local government decision making processes
Clients
Amardip advises a range of corporate and private clients, which include a supermarket chain, affordable housing providers, residential and commercial property developers including a leisure developer and lending institutions.
Expertise
Career
Amardip was head of legal services for over 10 years in the public sector and has over 30 years’ experience. During that time, she has facilitated multiple major development and regeneration projects.
Her breadth of experience gained from operating in both the public and private sectors gives her a greater insight into how local planning authorities and the voluntary sector operate. Her advice and support to clients is recognised as being both grounded and solutions focused.
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Memberships
- Compulsory Purchase Association
- National Infrastructure Planning Association
Significant Experience
- Securing a highway authority withdrawing its requirements for a highway scheme.
- Securing the withdrawal by the council of a heritage prosecution against an education establishment.
- Securing the withdrawal of a borough-wide public consultation on behalf of a school, based on public sector equality duty and governance concerns.
- Acting for an interested party to defend a grant of planning permission.
- Acting for a claimant to quash a planning permission.
- Acting for an appellant, securing a grant of a planning permission following a Public Inquiry.
- Acting of interested parties to support the case for upholding an enforcement notice and on planning appeals to uphold refusals of planning permission.
Additional Expertise
Quoted on planning matters of interest in property press.
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