Caroline Bywater

Principal Associate

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What can I do for you

Caroline is a specialist in Mills & Reeve’s planning team. Her work involves a wide range of issues from reviewing planning application material and drafting complex section 106 agreements to dealing with appeals or challenges to the High Court. Caroline’s clients include developers, landowners, promoters and investors. She regularly advises on large-scale strategic development projects and urban regeneration schemes.

What do others say

Clients have said that Caroline is "tenacious in resolving complex problems" and is "becoming a star". She is praised as giving clear and timely advice and offering "great support" to clients.

Supporting your ambitions

Caroline enjoys working as part of a client’s professional team. Getting involved early on in a project can often be important in understanding what is driving a scheme and what a client needs to achieve from it. This makes it easier for Caroline to advise on strategies and suggest ways to ensure that risks are minimised and a successful outcome achieved.  Some of Caroline’s highlights have been working as part of teams securing planning permission for and delivering large new residential-led and mixed use schemes, and  acting for a higher education establishment securing consent for a major campus redevelopment.

What else should you know?

Caroline frequently works together with colleagues in other Mills & Reeve teams, including the real estate, corporate and projects teams, which gives her a wider insight into the commercial market.

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What our clients say about us

“I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.”

“They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.”

“All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.”

“I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.”