Heatons has specialist skills, knowledge and experience in Infrastructure.

Infrastructure covers a number of subsectors including water (treatment, storage, transfer, flood alleviation), waste, energy (renewables, nuclear, power storage, power distribution), and transport (highways & rail etc..). Infrastructure planning can vary in scale and nature from town and country planning act applications to applications requiring EIA, Transport and Works Act Orders (TWAO), through to Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) requiring a Development Consent Order (DCO).

Heatons experts in infrastructure projects are experienced in leading and managing all types of projects. Infrastructure projects often require complex, multi-boundary, multi-regulator submissions. From inception, building a project team, appointing specialist technical experts, developing project programmes through pre-application and EIA phases to the submission and post-submission monitoring and finally post approval delivery; Heatons can guide you through the whole process and bring in our trusted partners and recommended technical suppliers to deliver your project.

Alongside major planning applications, Heatons team have experience of TWAO’s and has specialist expertise in NSIP projects with our experts experienced in guiding clients through and managing the DCO process. The team have significant experience in the energy, transport, and water sectors specifically post-DCO grant delivery.