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Eversheds LLP is a leading firm nationally for residential development planning instructions, and is expanding its profile in relation to renewable energy, utilities and minerals projects for new clients EDF, REG Windpower, Anglian Water and Tarmac. Partly based in Birmingham, Stuart Andrews is noted for his skills as a strategist and advocate; he acted for Catesby Properties in a challenge to the Secretary of State’s decision regarding a housing site in Bude, and also advised it in relation to a development involving 5,000 homes and a relief road in Newark.

Marrons has a national reputation for its housing and mixed-use development work, acting on developer-promoted schemes and for local authorities and landowners. The three-partner team is very experienced in contentious matters, and Morag Thomson has particular experience in progressing major development schemes through planning appeals. In 2010 she advised in relation to a sustainable urban extension to Cambridge. Simon Stanion advised the developer in relation to a hotel at Heathrow Airport. Peter Marron is now a consultant.

Browne Jacobson LLP’s practice leverages the firm’s longstanding relationships with public sector bodies. It handled compulsory purchase orders for Natural England; secured a development and s106 agreement for the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, on the Wornington Green redevelopment; and conducted enforcement matters for Staffordshire County Council, in relation to a sand quarry. Anna Eastgate is ‘outstanding in her precision and resilience and consequent effectiveness’.

Freeth Cartwright LLP’s three specialist planning practitioners have extensive experience in both strategic matters for developers and granting authorities, and as guides through city and town planning procedures for housebuilders and commercial entities such as Gala Coral.

Harvey Ingram LLP has a varied caseload, recently advising on development matters for housing schemes and a mixed-use development in the region. Paul Hunt completed a High Court recovery of s106 monies for a local authority.

Hewitsons LLP’s Cambridge-based practice is ‘knowledgeable, enthusiastic and responsive to tight timescales’, and acts for clients across the public, private and third sectors, including the Environment Agency and the RSPB.

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