National law firm Irwin Mitchell has recruited another new senior lawyer for its National Real Estate Department.
Stuart Tym has joined Irwin Mitchell’s National Planning practice as a Senior Associate, based in the Birmingham office, Stuart will have a national brief, but will initially be focused on the north of the country.
Stuart joins from The Wilkes Partnership where he was a Senior Associate and Head of Planning. He has a wealth of planning experience having advised in-house at both district level (section 106 agreements, affordable housing and viability, planning inquiries and enforcement matters) and county level local planning authorities (waste, coal, minerals and high ways,) as well as having advised in the private sector where he has acted for both developers, funders and private individuals on their planning needs.
More recently, across the Midlands and the North, Stuart has drafted Article 4 directions and a bespoke Local Development Order for a Local Authority, advised on a variety of CPO matters including HS2, advised numerous landowners and developers on technical planning law matters, as well as handling a range of s106 agreements and handling criminal planning cases.
Stuart joins a now eight-strong planning team led by National Head of Planning Carl Dyer, which covers clients across the UK including Jasper Group, Roffey Homes, Store Properties, Welbeck Land and Westerleigh.
Adrian Barlow, National Head of Real Estate at Irwin Mitchell commented, “Stuart will be a great asset to the national business and to our planning team. His appointment comes hot on the heels of the announcement of Michelle Beaumont who is joining the firm’s Leeds office as a real estate partner, Paula Hanlon who joined the firm’s Manchester office as senior associate in Autumn and Tim Rayner, partner and our new Joint Head of Property Litigation who joined us in the Summer. We will continue to grow our national real estate offering across the UK, from the seven of our UK offices that offer legal services to the business community. We hope to announce further new senior recruits shortly.“
Irwin Mitchell’s National Real Estate practice now has over 30 real estate partners offering the full range of commercial and residential legal advice.
The commercial practice is focused around housing, strategic land, investment & asset management and retirement living.