Ben is an Associate in our Planning team. He advises on all aspects of planning law, including negotiating s106 agreements and highway agreements, planning due diligence Community Infrastructure Levy, Certificate of Lawfulness, Compulsory Purchase Orders, planning appeals, judicial review and enforcement.
Ben acts mainly for large housebuilders, commercial entities and property developers on a variety of projects, ranging from major schemes to minor niche projects.
Prior to joining Osborne Clarke in February 2023, Ben worked at a UK top-100 London-based law firm. Before settling in the UK, he worked for private developers and local authorities throughout New Zealand.
Ben is admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand (2018).
"‘Ben Cochrane is very hardworking and very reliable"
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I have authored and co-authored articles answering readers’ property dispute questions in the Sunday Times.
In New Zealand, I sat on the Young RMLA Committee, an association for junior practitioners in the resource management profession. I also assisted a contributing author to Thomson Reuters Local Government Law in New Zealand by researching noteworthy cases and legislative changes before preparing first drafts of commentary to be inserted into the publication.
