Our team understands the importance of an efficient and effective authorisation process for major transport projects and initiatives.

Delay can be critical if not fatal to a project and we have a proven track record taking major schemes through increasingly complex processes under different legal frameworks on time and on budget. We led and managed the parliamentary process for the two Edinburgh Tram bills and we successfully delivered a positive outcome to a public inquiry into the Edinburgh road user charging scheme, which involved new and emerging legislation with untested concepts in a highly contentious environment.

These projects require an understanding of the importance of community engagement, project feasibility and the modelling on which it is based, environmental assessment, statutory planning regimes and related law on highways and transport as well as the relevant policy context.