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BDB Pitmans is a leader in infrastructure planning and has advised on a number of notable renewable energy projects over the past year.

The firm advised Able UK on the first material amendment to a Development Consent Order, a landmark move that sets a precedent for marine renewable energy infrastructure in the UK.

In aviation, BDB Pitmans assisted Luton Rising in achieving a planning milestone for the expansion of the airport, a project that promises to significantly boost the UK’s economic activity.

Its charities team acted for Nuffield Health, one of the UK’s largest charities, in a landmark Supreme Court ruling against the London borough of Merton in a case concerning mandatory charity rates relief in England. Judges unanimously upheld a ruling in favour of Nuffield Health to receive a mandatory 80 per cent relief from business rates for a members-only gym in south London. They ruled that the charity’s Merton Abbey gym qualified as “premises which are occupied by a charity and used wholly or mainly for charitable purposes”.