Michael Greig Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

I specialise in planning and environmental law, advising public and private sector clients on development projects and major infrastructure projects. I advised the Scottish Government in relation to promotion of the Forth Replacement Crossing as well as on compulsory purchase issues related to major roads CPOs. I have advised on local authority waste projects for Glasgow, Aberdeenshire and Edinburgh. I advise on major redevelopment projects including at New Waverley, Edinburgh and Davidson's Mill, Aberdeen. I have particular experience in the promotion of housing sites including a successful court challenge to the Edinburgh City Local Plan. I have conducted numerous planning appeals including advocacy at appeals and public inquiries.I also have experience of the promotion of development projects in England including public inquiries and development consent orders on highways, rail and energy projects. I act on the promotion of energy schemes with experience throughout the UK in unconventional gas, nuclear, solar and wind as well as grid infrastructure.I am active in pro bono work on children's rights. In 2014, I undertook substantial pro bono work for UNICEF which centred on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Bangladesh. This included a field trip to Dhaka working with senior Bangladesh Government officers and UNICEF staff on legislative drafting. I have worked on an international NSPCC child protection project as well as revising child protection policies for various charities. I am currently working with UNICEF on a child justice project in Uzbekistan and spent a week in Tashkent discussing law reform and judicial training needs.

I was a specialist in planning and environmental law. This included promotion of the Airdrie Bathgate railway and objections to the Edinburgh Waverley and Edinburgh Trams bills. In relation to environmental law, I advised on one of the first sites to be formally designated as contaminated land and conducted appeals on IPC permits.

I was responsible for planning and transportation team. I provided day to day advice on planning applications. I advised on the promotion of planning policy including advocacy at local plan inquiries and the development of supplementary planning guidance. This included the first successful importation of an affordable housing policy into a Scottish local plan. I negotiated numerous planning agreements, drafted enforcement notices and conducted numerous appeals and public inquiries. I draw on my in-house local authority experience in order to advise public and private sector clients

Master Of Laws (Llm), Environmental Law

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb)

After completing my LLB, I undertook a LLM in environmental law at the University of Aberdeen where I developed an interest in planning.