Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors Belfast
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50 Bedford Street |
Telephone: 028 9024 3141 |
Email: k.blair@cfrlaw.co.uk Website: www.cfrlaw.co.uk |
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Cleaver Fulton Rankin is a leading commercial law practice based in Belfast and practising throughout Northern Ireland. It has unique experience in the planning and environment areas. Key experience includes:-
• Lead adviser to George Best Belfast City Airport in respect of its application to extend its runway and proposal to vary its Planning Agreement.
• Lead adviser to Titanic Quarter Limited in respect of its various planning applications for its mixed use development schemes in the old Belfast ship works site, including the site for the Public Records Office for Northern Ireland, Belfast Metropolitan College and the Titanic Belfast, the Tourist and exhibition facility due to open in April 2012.
• Lead adviser to the National Trust in respect of the new Visitors’ Centre at the Giant’s Causeway, the only World Heritage Site in Northern Ireland.
• Advising a leading national retailer in respect a number of planning applications and roads agreements and agreements in relation to public transport provision.
• Advising the Department for Social Development in respect of its masterplans and development agreements at various towns and cities throughout Northern Ireland in relation to planning and environmental matters and vesting powers.
• Ongoing advice to AES on planning, environmental and regulatory issues arising from the operation of Kilroot Power Station, the coal fired power station in Carrickfergus, Count Antrim.
Karen Blair heads up the Planning and Environmental team at Cleaver Fulton Rankin. Karen has been recognised as a leader in the field of both planning and environmental law in the Chambers Legal Directories from 2007 to date where she has been desctibed as "Fully prepared, proactive and on the ball," "analytical and bright, as well as pragmatic and realistic in her approach to major projects," and "a meticulous lawyer with a fantastic knowledge of planning law" who is keenly sought out for her "proactive, well-prepared advice" and "excellent representation of her clients’ best interests".