Toni Weston is a Partner at Gowling WLG (UK) LLP specialising in compulsory purchase, development consent, planning and highways law. She advises on all aspects of compulsory purchase, with particular emphasis on working with public bodies and developers to deliver regeneration, housing and transport projects. She regularly advises both acquiring authorities and landowners in submitting and concluding compensation claims, either through completion of a settlement agreement or following a hearing in the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber). Recent projects include advising National Highways on development consent orders for the M54 to M6 Link Road scheme and the M60 Simister Island Improvement scheme and advising South Tees Development Corporation on the first use of its compulsory purchase powers to secure regeneration of 4,500 acres of former steelworks.