Melanie Grimshaw

Partner

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What can I do for you

Melanie advises on planning and compulsory purchase across a range of development, including the promotion of new communities and regeneration projects.  Melanie advises on planning strategy, environmental impact assessment, section 106 agreements and judicial review. 

Melanie’s major infrastructure experience includes advising on nationally significant infrastructure projects promoted under the Planning Act 2008, as well as Transport and Works Act Orders.

What do others say

Melanie has been recognised as a “Next Generation Lawyer” and latterly as a “Rising Star” in Legal 500, where she is described as “excellent”. 

“Melanie is absolutely superb. She has the commercial ability to advise me on what I can ignore and what I have to look at. When something is important she lets me know”. Client Feedback

Supporting your ambitions

Melanie has acted on some of the UK’s major regeneration and infrastructure schemes. She has advised promoters in the business and commercial, transport and energy sectors on a wide range of Development Consent Orders promoted under the Planning Act 2008, so is well placed to advise those affected by major infrastructure schemes.

Melanie excels in client experience. She is known for her personable approach and the rapport she builds with her clients. Melanie will get to know you and your business to ensure that she becomes an extension of your team, supporting your ambitions and not simply your “external” lawyer.

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What our clients say about us

“I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.”

“They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.”

“All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.”

“I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.”