Robbie leads Pinsent Masons’ UK infrastructure planning and government affairs businesses. He advises on UK infrastructure and economic development policies, programmes and major projects, focussing on policy formulation, parliamentary issues including enabling legislation, major project consenting and delivery. He specialises in a wide range of planning, highways, environmental, compulsory acquisition and other aspects of public and administrative law. In particular he has over 35 years' experience of advising on the planning and consenting of a wide variety of UK nationally significant and other major infrastructure projects under a variety of consenting regimes, including development consent orders / DCOs made under the Planning Act 2008 for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects. In the case of airport development Robbie leads Pinsent Masons’ advice to Heathrow Airport on its Expansion programme and he recently led its advice to the five host local authorities on the London Luton Airport Expansion DCO. He is the founder, a Board Director and Secretary of the National Infrastructure Planning Association (NIPA).