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Mills & Reeve LLP’s David Brock is chair of the Law Society’s Planning and Environment Law Committee. He recently advised on complex s106 negotiations for the CB1 development, and also on an application for a 65MW energy-from-waste facility in Bedford.

Taylor Vinters’ Amy Richardson has ‘strong local contacts and depth of knowledge’. Her team obtained planning permission for a stables yard for Godolphin Management Company, and acted for Babergh District Council in an appeal over a housing development near Ipswich. New clients include Greene King.

Birketts LLP delivers ‘fast responses and practical advice in a calm but firm manner’. Richard Eaton and Graham Wright are recommended, and senior associate Tom Newcombe, who joined from Eversheds LLP, brings experience in large projects.

Eversheds LLP is noted for its ‘quick response times and good grasp of commercial aspects’, on matters including compulsory purchase projects. Associates Peter Seaborn and James Smith advise clients such as Grosvenor Developments. Trevor Ivory left for Howes Percival LLP.

Gotelee Solicitors is ‘excellent on all counts’, with Brian Morron very highly rated. He is advising tenants of a large business park, and handling an application for a mixed-use site near Ipswich.

Deborah Sharples at Hewitsons LLP is ‘knowledgeable, enthusiastic and responsive’. Her recent work includes assisting an objector to a new truck stop, and successfully representing a poultry farmer in relation to expansion plans.

Howes Percival LLP joins the ranking with the arrival Trevor Ivory from Eversheds LLP, whose recent work includes advising Ashwell Property Group on a £1bn regeneration near Cambridge Railway Station.

Star player’ Bob McGeady at Kester Cunningham John is ‘an expert negotiator, and fights his corner vigorously’, and is ‘equally at home in planning inquiries, High Court judicial reviews, and the nuts and bolts of complex planning applications’.

Richard Buxton’s record in planning judicial reviews is exemplary. It advises clients across the UK, including many claimants against propsed wind farm projects.

Kevin Oelrichs and Jane Walford handle planning issues for Greenland Houchen Pomeroy’s many housing association clients.

Greenwoods Solicitors LLP’s property team, under Karin Horsley, assists numerous housing associations with planning issues.

The ‘prompt, experienced’ David Merson at Steeles Law LLP is experienced in promoting compulsory purchase orders. The firm is on Sussex County Council’s consortium for planning law.

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