I am a Director (Barrister) at Martha Grekos Legal Consultancy Limited.

I specialise in Planning Law and Policy. I help clients realise their goals in gaining planning permission for large complex urban regeneration projects and strategic residential developments and major infrastructure projects, mainly transport and energy.

I have worked on some of the most complex and politically sensitive projects in London and nationwide, some of which are listed on this page. I am also currently a Panel Member of the Mayor of London’s Infrastructure Advisory Board, a non-executive member of the London Legacy Development Corporation (sitting on the Planning Committee) and a Board member of the Cambridge Land Economy Advisory Board.

I think of my role as standing in the shoes of the client and working a part of a team to deliver a commercial outcome. I am not a lawyer that likes to just sit behind my desk and churn out the law. Instead, I focus on client service, rolling up my sleeves to unlock issues in order to find a way through – coming to an agreement with all parties involved.

Prior to returning to independent practice, I was a Partner and Head of Planning at a top city law firm. I also taught planning law at the University of Cambridge after I graduated with a Masters in Law from there. I write for many of the leading planning and real estate publications and I am an Editorial Board Member for Lexis Nexis and I am invited to speak regularly at many conferences.

I am ranked as one of the most influential women in planning (Planner, 2020), ranked in Chambers UK (2019) as an “up and coming” planning lawyer in London and recommended as a “Leading Planning Junior” in Legal 500 (2019). I am listed as one of the top three planning lawyers in the UK (Planning, 2016), and I have been voted by Property Week “40 Under 40” as one of the rising stars and most influential people in the property industry aged under 40 (2017).