Jay Mehta > Howes Percival LLP > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile
Howes Percival LLP Offices
FLINT BUILDINGS
1 BEDDING LANE
NORWICH
NR3 1RG
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Jay Mehta
Work Department
Commercial Property
Position
Partner
Jay is a specialist planning solicitor at Howes Percival. He is experienced in all areas of planning law and supports his clients with the delivery of strategic residential development including large urban extensions and allocations, in addition to commercial, agricultural and renewable energy projects. Recommended in the Legal 500, Jay’s clients include national house builders, promoters and local planning authorities who describe him as having “excellent judgement and very good attention to detail”.
Over the years, Jay has accrued significant experience in judicial review and planning appeals. He has defended countless developers and local planning authorities against challenges to planning permissions, with continued success in the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Many of these cases are now considered to be leading authorities on matters such as Environmental Impact Assessment and Appropriate Assessment. Jay is therefore relied on by many applicants and local planning authorities to guide them through the application process to ensure planning permissions may be secured robustly and the development may proceed without delay.
Jay also has considerable experience in drafting complex section 106 agreements and highways agreements for schemes across the country, and provides regular advice on other matters such as enforcement, certificates of lawfulness, compulsory purchase, town and village greens, listed buildings consent and permitted development rights.
Career
- 2021 – Present: Howes Percival LLP, Partner
- 2018 – 2021: Howes Percival LLP, Director
- 2015 – 2018: Howes Percival LLP, Associate Solicitor
- 2012 – 2015: Howes Percival LLP, Solicitor
- 2010 – 2012: Howes Percival LLP, Trainee Solicitor
- 2009 – 2010: College of Law, Birmingham
- 2007 – 2009: Howes Percival LLP
- 2007: Graduated from the University of East Anglia
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Real estate > Planning and environment
(Leading individuals)The Norwich and Cambridge offices of Howes Percival LLP play a central role in the firm-wide planning practice, with Jay Mehta leading the local team. Exhibiting ‘first-rate knowledge of planning law’, the team handles a broad range of issues, including environmental impact assessments and NSIPs. Mehta ‘makes light work of complex matters’ and director Jamie Childs is ‘commercial and pragmatic dealing with s.106 planning obligation agreements’. The practice advises a stellar roster of clients, notably including Flagship Group, Home Builders Federation and Turnstone Estates. Mehta recently assisted Persimmon Homes in concluding planning obligations relating to developments in Colchester, Harwich and Stanford-Le-Hope.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals East Anglia > Real estate > Planning and environment
- Planning and environment East Anglia > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Real estate > Commercial property: Norwich
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Norwich
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Social housing
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Norwich
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Norwich
- Employment > Employment
- Employment > Health and safety
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
- Public sector > Public sector
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Family