Marnix Elsenaar

Expertise

Marnix heads Addleshaw Goddard's Planning and Infrastructure Consenting Team.  He advises clients in the living, regeneration and transport sectors and helps them to navigate their way through the challenges and opportunities of the UK's planning system. Marnix's work includes trophy central London projects, residential schemes, with a recent focus on co-living and student accommodation, biomedical campus and logistics developments and rail renewal and enhancement schemes. He provides strategic advice, de-risks planning applications and negotiates planning and infrastructure agreements.  His inquiry work includes planning appeals and the promotion of compulsory purchase and Transport and Works Act Orders. Marnix chairs the British Property Federation's Co-Living Working Group. 

Marnix's experience includes:

Infrastructure Consenting

• Network Rail: advising NR on its representations to over 20 third party Development Consent Order applications.  Our role has included advising on all stages of the DCO process, drafting Written Representations and attending hearings.
• Network Rail: advising NR on the promotion of a number of Transport and Works Act Order applications.
• SSE: advising on the Development Consent Order application for a new gas-fired power station; Ferrybridge D, at Ferrybridge in Yorkshire.  Our work included advising on the consents strategy, reviewing the environmental documentation and drafting the Order.   
• London Luton Airport Limited: advised on the planning application for the new Mass Passenger Transit system linking Luton Airport Parkway Station and the Terminal Building and on the promotion of the Transport and Works Act order application to facilitate the operation of the new system.  
• South East Water: on its objections to National Grid's Richborough Connection Development Consent Order application to safeguard the site of its proposed reservoir at Broad Oak in Kent. This included becoming familiar with SEW's Water Resources Management Plan and considering the consents needed for the new reservoir.

Development planning and Regeneration

• Advising Hub Residential on their planning application strategy and section 106 agreements for a number of Build to Rent and Co-Living Schemes across London and England.  
• Advising Muse Developments on their planning applications and section 106 agreements for a number of schemes in London.