A Principal in Avison Young's Planning Team, Laura joined the firm in December 2013 after almost eight years in the public sector and has approximately 18 years of experience managing and advising on a variety of stadia, large-scale residential, commercial and mixed-use development projects predominantly across Central London and the South East, including EIA applications.

Her experience is primarily focused in central and greater London, working on high density mixed-use development and includes the office/life science, leisure/ stadia, hotel, residential/ specialist residential, education and industrial sectors. Her main clients include Workspace, Landsec, LS Estates, Aviva, Hollybrook Homes, Northacre, Seven Capital, Amro + Partners, Wates Residential, London Metropolitan University, the University of Westminster, London Square, Mirastar, Chinese Estates, DTZI, Berkeley Homes, Starland, Dartmouth Capital, Helical, Hadley, Ho Bee Land, London Newcastle, Hoi Hup Realty, Luxgrove, London Land Group, Hyde and many others (including destination leisure operators).

Laura advises at all stages of the planning process, including writing site appraisals for bids and due diligence work, advising on planning strategy, preparing representations on behalf of clients to inform the Local Plan Review process, leading pre-application discussions with LPAs and the Greater London Authority, the submission of planning applications, negotiation on conditions/ S106, optimization strategies through the Reserved Matters, MMA (S73) and NMA (S96A) process, discharging conditions/ S106 obligations, assisting with site disposal as required.

Laura is a Panel Member for the Design Review South East and has recently been a RIBA Judge for the West London Region. Laura contributed to the British Council for Offices Guide for Specification Best Practice Guide 2019. Laura was chair of the City of London’s Built Environment Users’ Group from 2019 to 2022.

Prior to working at Avison Young, Laura spent nearly 6 years at Brent Council in the development management, planning policy and regeneration teams including working on projects such as the Wembley Area Action Plan, the South Kilburn Regeneration Programme and a range of large scale planning applications. Before this, she worked at the Government Office for London on the review of the Mayor's powers, amendments to London's Strategic Protected Views, revisions to the London Plan and strategic planning casework (including call ins/ departures plus many more).