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Hewitsons LLP has a multi-disciplinary team acting for clients such as Cambridge City Council and Huntingdonshire District Council. It includes Deborah Sharples, who is outstanding on the environmental side, and Colin Jones, who heads the firm’s M11 Development Group.

Mills & Reeve LLP is ‘very swift, and its advice takes the broad view’. Beverley Firth is ‘user friendly, with excellent judgment, and dedicated’; Nick Finlayson-Browntends to neither waste time nor waffle’; and Christine de Ferrars Green is ‘very approachable and pragmatic’. First class for property, town planning and regeneration matters, the team advises Norwich County Council, Suffolk County Council and many London boroughs.

Taylor Vinters has a not-for-profit team under Janet Turner QC that brings together some 15 partners with commercial, employment, property, finance and planning expertise. Clients include Babergh District Council and East Cambridgeshire District Council.

Eversheds LLP has a strong national practice, with its advice to local authorities noted as ‘timely, professional and appropriate’. Ian Mather has joined Mills & Reeve LLP.

Consultant Bob McGeady’s planning expertise and in-house experience is a boon to public sector clients of Kester Cunningham John.

At Steeles Law LLP, clients of well-regarded planning and environment specialist David Merson include a London borough.

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