LDR: environmental, energy and spatial planning law lawyers
LDR was set up in 1997 by Isabelle Larmuseau, Peter de Smedt and Bert Roelandts and counts meanwhile twenty-two lawyers who are each active within one or more specific fields of environmental, climate, energy and spatial planning law. LDR is characterised by a specific combination of a practice-oriented and scientific approach of the most varied themes relating to environmental law. The law firm has gained its good reputation thanks to its pragmatic approach to various types of procedures in and out of court, but also thanks to its scientific activities in close collaboration with several university institutions as well as its scientific publications, legislation projects and policy-supporting studies.
We win
On 6 March 2008 and on 19 March 2009 LDR received the Belgian Legal Award for 'Law Firm of the Year (Flanders)'. The Belgian Legal Award honours excellence, continuity and innovation.
Belgian Legal Awards 2009
Belgian Legal Awards 2008
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LDR cooperated in the project to support the elaboration of the White Paper on Flanders Spatial Policy Plan [Witboek Beleidsplan Ruimte Vlaanderen], commissioned by the Flemish government’s Department of Spatial Planning [Ruimte Vlaanderen, Afdeling Ruimtelijke Planning].
LDR is also involved in a project to speed up investment projects [Versnellen Investeringsprojecten] which involve decreed complex projects commissioned by the Flemish government’s Department of Legal and Policy Development [Ruimte Vlaanderen, Afdeling Juridische en beleidsontwikkeling].
LDR is to support permit applications for channel maintenance in the Netherlands and Flanders (Deepening of Westerschelde) after 2014, on the instruction of the Maritime Access division of the Department of Mobility and Public Works [Departement Mobiliteit en Openbare Werken, Afdeling Maritieme Toegang].