Camilla Rhodes
With a background as a historical geographer, Camilla qualified as a general practice Chartered Surveyor in 2002 specialising in landlord and tenant and property management work for private and institutional clients. Camilla then moved to a local highway authority in the public sector from which she brings 20 years of experience managing Highway and Definitive Map Team services, including the development of strategic policies. At Birketts Camilla manages the Public Access Team.
Camilla specialises in all areas of highway, public rights of way (Definitive Map) and other public access asset records matters, including the interaction between the List of Streets and the Definitive Map. She advises on all types of public rights of way (PRoW) legal order processes and s116 Highways Act 1980 stopping up orders. She is also experienced in CON29 property searches (highway/PRoW questions); commons/town and village green; and active travel matters.
Camilla has a wealth of expertise in advising clients on complex development sites involving PRoW and public access opportunities, seeking to obtain the best outcomes for both developers and local communities. She also advises on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs), particularly the drafting of the highway asset and PRoW elements of Development Consent Orders (DCO) and Transport & Works Act Orders (TWAOs). Her experience includes providing analysis and advice on the impact of proposed NSIPs on the PRoW network, wider non-motorised users connectivity and local communities within the landscape, together with the interaction of the PRoW network with ecological aspects of a project.
With a successful track record of negotiating associated NSIP s106 and side agreements, Camilla also provides expert representation at hearings and ongoing advice during the delivery phase of schemes.
Significant projects include:
- Complex transport schemes including the new A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon DCO; the A428 Caxton – Black Cat DCO; and the old A428 Active Travel feasibility study
- The Network Rail (Cambridgeshire Level Crossing Reduction) Order 2020
- Clean energy projects such as the Sunnica Solar Farm and Medworth Energy from Waste CHP Facility
- Cambridge Waste Water treatment Plant Relocation Project
- Greater Cambridge Partnership Greenways Project
Camilla enjoys bringing together her broad experience to collaborate on cross-sector issues. She has a particular interest in helping clients to resolve highway and public rights of way (PRoW) boundary disputes. She has contributed to the RICS Procedures for boundary identification, demarcation and resolution.
Camilla is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Institute of Public Rights of Way Management (IPROW). She is highly thought of in her specialist area and has received compliments from a wide range of professionals.
