Kate Butterfield

Solicitor - Solicitor

SRA ID: 157093

Kate studied law in Leeds after completing a degree in Economics. She achieved honours in the Law Society’s final examination and like Carolyn went on to train at Hammond Suddards (now Squire Patton Boggs). She joined Carolyn at Wilbraham & Co, where she became a partner. In 2005, when the firm merged with Cobbetts, Kate remained a partner before moving to Gordons LLP in 2010. Here she developed and grew the planning practice, became a partner, and led on a range of significant retail and residential projects. Over the years, Kate has advised on numerous and diverse high-profile proposals, both in Yorkshire and nationwide. She has acted for both national house-builders and smaller specialist housing developers on stand-alone residential sites and mixed use development schemes. Kate has an extremely wide knowledge of the planning system and development projects including the conversion of listed buildings; advising on and undertaking planning applications, infrastructure agreements, appeals and judicial reviews; leisure projects, enforcement matters and objections to Compulsory Purchase Orders and Transport and Works Act Orders on behalf of landowners. She is a highly respected specialist planning lawyer in the region and consistently recognised as a ranked solicitor in legal publications such as Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. In January 2015, she joined Carolyn at LB & Co in order to take advantage of the undoubted synergy which arises from their long-standing association. Working in a specialist planning law practice means she can offer clients better value for money and a service specifically tailored to their needs.