Claire Barritt

Senior Associate

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Claire is a Senior Associate in our Planning Law team. She specialises in planning law, commercial property, and public sector governance. She drafts and negotiates a wide range of planning and infrastructure agreements for her clients. Claire qualified as a solicitor in 2003. Claire has previously had a long career in the public sector, including as the Head of Legal and Democratic Services and Corporate Services for an urban authority, before joining private practice in 2015. She has lectured at the University Campus, Colchester. Claire has undertaken a variety of roles dealing with a wide range of commercial property and planning matters including advising a number of different planning committees, dealing with applications for development and change of use, drafting conditions, planning appraisals and viability assessments, lodging and dealing with objections, drafting and negotiating complex s106 agreements and unilateral undertakings, highways agreements, advising local authority on sequential test for development in flood risk areas, drafting flood management plan, advising on travel plans, advising on listed buildings, tree preservation orders, preparing briefs to counsel, judicial review claims, public sector NERC duties (and European habitats directive) advising on enforcement options and applications for Certificates of Lawful use. Claire gets great satisfaction in helping her clients' developments from concept through to fruition, whether affordable housing, residential or mixed-use schemes and projects. Outside of work, Claire has been a charity trustee for 4YP, a Suffolk-based charity that provides wellbeing services to young people, for nine years, and has an active interest in the arts and trail running.

  • Regulated by: The Solicitors Regulation Authority

  • Regulator ID: 345817

  • Based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
  • Licensed for 22 years

Accepting new clients via ReviewSolicitors

Claire is a Senior Associate in our Planning Law team. She specialises in planning law, commercial property, and public sector governance. She drafts and negotiates a wide range of planning and infrastructure agreements for her clients. Claire qualified as a solicitor in 2003. Claire has previously had a long career in the public sector, including as the Head of Legal and Democratic Services and Corporate Services for an urban authority, before joining private practice in 2015. She has lectured at the University Campus, Colchester. Claire has undertaken a variety of roles dealing with a wide range of commercial property and planning matters including advising a number of different planning committees, dealing with applications for development and change of use, drafting conditions, planning appraisals and viability assessments, lodging and dealing with objections, drafting and negotiating complex s106 agreements and unilateral undertakings, highways agreements, advising local authority on sequential test for development in flood risk areas, drafting flood management plan, advising on travel plans, advising on listed buildings, tree preservation orders, preparing briefs to counsel, judicial review claims, public sector NERC duties (and European habitats directive) advising on enforcement options and applications for Certificates of Lawful use. Claire gets great satisfaction in helping her clients' developments from concept through to fruition, whether affordable housing, residential or mixed-use schemes and projects. Outside of work, Claire has been a charity trustee for 4YP, a Suffolk-based charity that provides wellbeing services to young people, for nine years, and has an active interest in the arts and trail running.

  • Regulated by: The Solicitors Regulation Authority

  • Regulator ID: 345817

  • Based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
  • Licensed for 22 years

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  • Prettys Solicitors LLP

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    Until 2020

  • Gotelee Solicitors LLP

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    2020 - 2025 5 years

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  • English
  • French

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Monday 08:30–17:30
Tuesday 08:30–17:30
Wednesday 08:30–17:30
Thursday 08:30–17:30
Friday 08:30–17:30
Saturday (Closed)
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The Long Barn, Fornham Business Court, Fornham St Martin, Suffolk, IP31 1SL

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