Nigel Hewitson
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Work Department
Property planning and environment.
Position
Nigel specialises in planning and related areas of law and is the head of our London planning team. His practice principally encompasses planning and compulsory purchase work but he also advises on wider public law matters such as highways law, heritage protection and local government law generally. He has dealt with numerous planning inquiries and a dozen compulsory purchase orders of varying sizes. Current clients include major property developers; public bodies and significant players in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
Career
Trained London Borough of Harrow; qualified: 1988; London Borough of Harrow 1982-2001 – various posts; English Heritage 2001-06 – legal director; Howard Kennedy 2006-07 – head of planning; joined Norton Rose 2007; partner 2010. Publications: associate editor Butterworth’s Planning Law Service.
Languages
French, German
Member
Law Society; Law Society’s Planning Law Accreditation Scheme; legal associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
Education
Crossley and Porter Grammar School, Halifax; Manchester University (BA(Hons) 1982); College of Law (CPE and Law Society Finals 1988); Nottingham Trent University (MBA 2005)
