Who's Who Legal: Hospitality 2022 - Sarah Fitzpatrick

Sarah Fitzpatrick, Head of Planning, London, has been ranked globally as one of the top lawyers in the new Who’s Who Legal Hospitality 2022 edition published today. Sarah is the only lawyer from Norton Rose Fulbright to achieve this accolade and is praised for her “cool head and strong leadership ability”. You can read Sarah’s full Who’s Who Legal profile here:

Sarah is head of planning, a partner and barrister. She has over 25 years’ experience of advising on and securing planning permission for new developments, principally in London and the South East of England with a focus on the hospitality sector.

Sarah has secured planning permission for major sports stadia, hotels, bars and restaurants, including roof top venues, cinemas, visitor attractions, and other sports and leisure facilities. She always strives to secure the optimum consents for her clients that maximise value, and that are attractive to prospective funders, developers and occupiers. Sarah is expert at obtaining consents that have the right amount of flexibility to accommodate changing consumer trends and that allow hospitality facilities to remain on trend, or even change to new uses without the need to obtain fresh or varied consents.

Examples of hospitality developments that Sarah has acted on include: The Shard in London, which includes a hotel, bars and restaurants, and a top floor visitor attraction; the Olympic Park in London which includes a range of sports venues as well as complementary hospitality and leisure facilities; the main stand redevelopment for an English Premiership Football Club including corporate hospitality, fan facilities, and retail outlets, as well as securing consent for the Club’s new training Academy; a new 6 screen cinema development with complementary bars, restaurants and retailing; and a boutique hotel and restaurant in Oxfordshire that involved the repurposing of a listed building.

Sarah is recognised as a “leading individual” in The Legal 500 2022 edition for planning. She also publishes regularly with articles published by LexisNexis, and The Planner.

WWL says: Sarah Fitzpatrick is lauded for her "cool head and strong leadership ability", as well as "her practical approach to often complex legal problems" in securing valuable planning consents for her clients.