Clarke Willmott LLP has appointed Elaine Field as a partner in its national planning and environment team, strengthening its Manchester office. Field brings more than 20 years of experience across private practice and local government, offering a detailed understanding of the planning process from multiple perspectives.
Her arrival supports the continued expansion of both the Manchester office and the firm’s planning and environment practice, which advises developers, local authorities, landowners and commercial organisations. Field has worked on major residential, mixed-use and commercial schemes, and has extensive experience with complex planning, highways matters and Section 106 agreements for large-scale developments.
Field’s expertise also spans infrastructure, including development consent orders, traffic regulation orders and advising statutory undertakers, as well as representing clients at Select Committee hearings linked to HS2. Her work often involves multi-party collaboration and projects with significant infrastructure requirements.
Ed Foulkes, head of the Manchester office, said: ‘It’s great to welcome Elaine to our office and to our fast-growing and nationally-recognised planning and environment team.’ He added that she is ‘known for her practical, solutions focused approach’ and ‘clear, commercially grounded advice’, and noted that ‘Elaine joins the Manchester office at a time of impressive growth as we expand on both our pool of talented people and our client base.’
