Martha is a Partner in the real Estate Department of Hamlins LLP and leads the Planning Law Team.

Martha has specialised for more than 26 years in working with stakeholders to deliver significantly complex, large, and politically sensitive infrastructure, development, and regeneration schemes.

She envisages her role as standing in the shoes of the client while working as part of a team to deliver a commercial outcome. Martha focuses on client service and rolling up her sleeves to unlock issues to find a way through, resulting in a positive outcome for all parties involved.

Martha has a broad client base, comprising developers, public limited companies, banks, landowners, investors, entrepreneurial businesses, social housing providers, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, government departments, agencies and public bodies, infrastructure/utility companies, the wider community, and other agencies who are seeking to acquire planning permission in London or nationwide.

Martha has extensive experience in advising on planning law (all aspects of town and country planning and infrastructure under the Development Consent Order and Transport and Works Act Order regimes), as well as drafting and negotiating various agreements in order to move forward and deliver numerous infrastructure and regeneration schemes.

Martha is a champion for determination and willpower. She relishes complex projects where she can make a real difference, which really sets herself out from her peers. She sees solutions where others see problems but crucially she fosters a real spirit of collaboration throughout the team which allows people to mobilise around her towards a common goal.