Robbie leads Pinsent Masons’ UK infrastructure planning and government affairs businesses. He advises on UK infrastructure and economic development policies, programmes and major projects, focussing on policy formulation, parliamentary issues including enabling legislation, major project consenting and delivery. He specialises in a wide range of planning, highways, environmental, compulsory acquisition and other aspects of public and administrative law. In particular he has over 35 years' experience of advising on the planning and consenting of a wide variety of UK nationally significant and other major infrastructure projects under a variety of consenting regimes including Transport and Works Act orders, harbour revision and empowerment orders and development consent orders (DCOs) for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects. In the case of port infrastructure development Robbie has led teams advising on the original consenting of DP World London Gateway in 2007 and on the Local Development Orders for London Gateway in 2014 and 2024, on the ‘Tilbury2’ DCO in 2019 and on the ‘Tilbury3’ resolution to grant planning permission in February 2026. He is the founder, a Board Director and Secretary of the National Infrastructure Planning Association (NIPA).