Jim Ryan
Jim is an experienced specialist town and country planning lawyer whose practice also includes contentious matters, compulsory purchase, highway law, rights of way and the law of commons, and town and village greens. Jim also provides planning advice to lenders of development finance as part of the lenders’ necessary due diligence processes. His early career was spent as an engineering technician in local government and then as an infrastructure designer in the housebuilding industry, before reading for a law degree at UWE Bristol and subsequently training with Burges Salmon in Bristol. In June 2010, Jim was appointed to an in-house role as Head of Legal Services to M J Gleeson Group plc, a role he held until the end of 2014. Expertise: Town and Country Planning (with a bias towards contentious matters) Compulsory Purchase The law of Highways and Rights of Way The law of Commons and Town and Village Greens · Acuity Law
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Jim Ryan is an experienced specialist town and country planning lawyer at Acuity Law whose practice includes contentious planning matters, compulsory purchase, highway law, rights of way, and the law of commons and town and village greens. He also advises lenders on planning due diligence for development finance; he read law at UWE Bristol, trained with Burges Salmon in Bristol, and was Head of Legal Services at M J Gleeson Group plc from June 2010 until the end of 2014.
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- Law degree, University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)