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Robbie Owen

Partner and Head of Infrastructure Planning and Government Affairs, Pinsent Masons LLP

Robbie Owen leads global law firm Pinsent Masons’ infrastructure planning and government affairs business in the UK. He focuses on infrastructure and economic development policies, programmes and major projects and advises on policy formulation, parliamentary issues including enabling legislation, major project consenting and delivery. He specialises in a wide range of planning, highways, compulsory purchase, environmental and other aspects of public and administrative law. In particular he has over 35 years of experience of advising on the planning and consenting of a wide variety of nationally significant and other major infrastructure projects through various consenting regimes, particularly development consent orders, Transport and Works Act orders, harbour orders and hybrid bills, with a focus on transport and water infrastructure. Robbie is the co-founder, a director and the Secretary of the National Infrastructure Planning Association (NIPA).