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Jim Ryan

Partner, Acuity Law
Jim is an experienced specialist town and country planning lawyer, whose practice also includes compulsory purchase, highway law, rights of way and the law of commons and town and village greens.
 
His early career was spent as an engineering technician in Local Government and then as an infrastructure designer in the housebuilding industry, before reading for a law degree at UWE Bristol and then training with Burges Salmon in Bristol.
 
On qualification in 2001, he joined Burges Salmon’s Planning Team and later spent four and a half years as sole legal counsel to M J Gleeson Group plc, before returning to private practice.
 
Jim is also a Board Trustee with Emmaus, Bristol, a charity helping people out of homelessness.
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Does a section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 plan have to be the same as an application site plan, or can it be restricted to those areas where the obligations will take place?
Does a section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 plan have to be the same as an application site plan, or can it be restricted to those areas where the obligations will take place?
Q&As
Planning permission for the conversion of barns in the green belt to dwellings was granted on the basis that works fell within paragraph 150(d) of the National Planning Policy Framework. Now the developer is claiming that one of the barns cannot be converted as it is structurally unsafe and is now seeking the approval of the local planning authority (LPA) to demolish and rebuild it under the existing permission. What options are available to the LPA in this situation?
Planning permission for the conversion of barns in the green belt to dwellings was granted on the basis that works fell within paragraph 150(d) of the National Planning Policy Framework. Now the developer is claiming that one of the barns cannot be converted as it is structurally unsafe and is now seeking the approval of the local planning authority (LPA) to demolish and rebuild it under the existing permission. What options are available to the LPA in this situation?
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When a planning permission is granted subject to the standard three-year time limiting condition for implementation, does the three-year period include the day on which the permission is granted or does it begin the next day?
When a planning permission is granted subject to the standard three-year time limiting condition for implementation, does the three-year period include the day on which the permission is granted or does it begin the next day?
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Would an agreement under section 278 of the Highways Act 1980 be needed in order to undertake works to cross a ditch to create a new access, where the ditch unusually forms part of the dedicated highway?
Would an agreement under section 278 of the Highways Act 1980 be needed in order to undertake works to cross a ditch to create a new access, where the ditch unusually forms part of the dedicated highway?
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Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2001

Experience

  • Acuity Law, Partner (2020 - Present)
  • M J Gleeson Group plc, Sole Legal Counsel (2010 - 2014)
  • Burges Salmon LLP, Trainee through to Senior Associate (1999 - 2010)

Membership

  • Law Society

Qualifications

  • PG Dip, Legal Practice (1999)
  • LLB (Hons) (1998)

Education

  • University of the West of England (1995/1999)
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