Charlotte Ponchaut

Curriculum

Charlotte Ponchaut received her Master’s degree in Law with distinction at Ghent University and the University of Glasgow in 2010.

She took the subjects administrative law, environmental planning and energy law, among others.

The preparatory paper for her master’s thesis dealt with the protection of immovable heritage, in particular archaeological sites.

She has been active as a lawyer with LDR since 1 August 2010, offering assistance in environmental and environmental planning files.

Charlotte has worked as a lawyer for LDR since 1 August 2010. She focuses primarily on enforcement files within both environmental and planning law. Charlotte also deals with a wide variety of matters within the broad subject matter of environmental law.

She is also a lecturer at University College Ghent (HoGent), where she teaches several environmental legal subjects.

Since 2015 she is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Law (TMR).

She has also a certificate in ‘Special Training in Cassation Proceedings in Criminal Proceedings’ since 2016, which allows her to act as a lawyer in criminal proceedings in the Supreme Court.
 

Publications

  • DE SMEDT, P. en PONCHAUT, C., 'Toezicht, handhaving en veiligheidsmaatregelen', in DE WAELE, T., HUBEAU, B., VENHEUSDEN, B. en VAN HOORICK, G. (eds.), Omgevingsrecht geannoteerd 2018, die Keure, Brugge, 2018, 734-786.

  • LARMUSEAU, I., SCHOUKENS, H., DE SMEDT, P., SLABBINCK, R., DU GARDEIN, L., DEFOORT, P.J., BEKE, K., DE MAESSCHALCK, S., HOUTHUYS, A., STRUBBE, M., VANDAMME, S., MALFAIT, T., PONCHAUT, C., DE WITTE, E., THYSSEN, W., Omgevingsrecht: (g)een Toren van Babel, Brugge, Uitgeverij Vanden Broele, 2016, 333 p.

  • DE SMEDT, P., MALFAIT, T. en PONCHAUT, C., ‘Bodemsanering’, in DIETENS, M. en LANGASKENS, H., Van Aanvang tot Eindoplevering (VATE). Procedures en administratieve handelingen bij het bouwen, Brugge, die Keure, 2011, 1-34.

  • LARMUSEAU, I., MALFAIT, T. en PONCHAUT, C., ‘Regeling grondverzet’, in DIETENS, M. en LANGASKENS, H., Van Aanvang tot Eindoplevering (VATE). Procedures en administratieve handelingen bij het bouwen, Brugge, die Keure, 2011, 83-94.

     

    Presentations

  • Milieufiscaliteit, AMELIOR, Sint-Niklaas, september-oktober 2020.

  • Stand van zaken van de bestuurlijke milieuhandhavingsbeboeting: proeftuin voor de bestuurlijke beboeting van bouwinbreuken en bouwmisdrijven?, LDR-Opleiding Van stedenbouwhandhaving naar omgevingshandhaving: 1 maart 2018 als peildatum, Gentbrugge, 14 juni 2018.

  • Omgevingsvergunning incompanytraining, EL Architects, Kortrijk, 8 mei 2018.

  • Milieuhandhaving, VOKA, Hasselt, 24 januari 2018.

  • Module Milieuhandhaving, Amelior, Melle, 8 juni 2017.

  • Module Milieuhandhaving, Amelior, Nazareth, 23 juni 2016.

  • Module Milieuhandhaving, Amelior, Lokeren, 20 januari 2015.

  • Gastcollege Milieuvergunningen, HoGent, 17 maart 2014.

  • Module Milieuhandhaving, Amelior, Lokeren, 16 december 2013.

  • Module Milieuhandhaving, Amelior, Sint-Niklaas, 5 juni 2012.