Jo Hannah

Jo has over 20 years experience of dealing with Planning, Highway and associated matters. She started her career in local government and became the Head of the Planning and Highways legal team at a metropolitan authority. Having joined private practice she regularly advises private and public sector clients on a range of planning matters including on major regeneration schemes in London including providing advice on complex CIL issues and Section 106 agreements. She has advised on heritage matters including the negotiation of Heritage Partnership Agreements in respect of large heritage assets. She also advises on appeals and enforcement matters. In addition to planning she has been involved with resisting applications to list buildings and land as assets of community value and in resisting many applications to have land listed as a Town and Village Green. She also has the experience of advising on complex highways matters in both the public and private sector. She is recognised in Chambers and Legal 500 as a 'recommended lawyer'.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Q&A Panel

Qualified Year

  • 1979

Membership

  • Compulsory Purchase Associate Law Society

Education

  • LLB Honours Liverpool University

1 Contributions by Jo Hannah

Must LPAs publish draft s106 agreements on the planning register?
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Must LPAs publish draft s106 agreements on the planning register?
Section 96 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (TCPA 1990) Section 96 of the TCPA 1990 stipulates that a local planning authority (LPA) is to maintain and keep a register holding whatever information is prescribed by law. The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015, SI 2015/595 (the England DMPO), specifies the matters to be contained within the planning register. Under article 40 of the England DMPO, SI 2015/595, every LPA is required to keep, arranged in two separate sections, a register recording each application for planning permission concerning its area...
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