Mark is a Partner in our Environment and Planning Group. He has extensive experience in providing environmental and planning law advice for large-scale infrastructure projects, with a particular emphasis on housing and renewable energy projects.
Mark is a highly skilled planning and environmental lawyer, possessing extensive expertise in managing large-scale infrastructure projects. He has advised a wide range of domestic and international clients on planning and environmental issues including issues of EIA, AA, Water Framework Directive, Strategic Environmental Assessment, AIE and planning compliance generally. Mark is also an experienced litigator, with particular expertise in judicial review and planning injunctions.
Mark is also a specialist in health and safety law, regularly advising corporate clients on managing incident and emergency responses, regulatory investigations, and enforcement/prosecutions across various sectors, including construction, pharmaceuticals, food, technology, and renewable energy.
Relevant Experience
Mark has advised:
- A semi-state body on a wide array of issues, including climate, biodiversity loss, compliance with the Water Framework Directive, EIA, Habitats Directive, compliance with AIE and FOI and PFAS.
- A major tech company on its proposed data centre expansion.
- Developers and their planning consultants on the legal review of their environmental impact assessment reports, covering a broad spectrum of consenting risks, including climate change and the development of a robust climate assessment, as well as Cumulative Impact Assessment under the EIA Directive and In Combination Effects Assessment in the Habitats Directive.
- A large food and beverage manufacturing facility on water abstraction, Water Framework Directive compliance, consenting issues, and the new water abstraction licensing regime.
- A major technology company on consenting for a significant submarine data cable project.
- A leading construction company in environmental and planning proceedings, relating to unauthorised development at a competitor’s site, non-compliances with an air emissions licence and breaches of both the Planning Acts and the Air Pollution Act 1987;
- A large wind farm operator in plenary and personal injury proceedings in respect of noise nuisance complaints and defence of s.160 planning injunction proceedings, including alleged breach of EIA, arising from the operation of a wind farm;
- A leading renewable energy company on the acquisition of a 110MW portfolio of an “in-development” solar project in Ireland;
- A number of companies on their health and safety obligations, including construction companies on their emergency response plan and delivering training on investigations/report writing post incident
- A large tech company on its content moderation/health and safety policies;
- A major international pharmaceutical company on the taking and defence of nuisance proceedings relative to issues of air pollution
