team profile

We offer a full service to our clients in the ever changing world of town and country planning law.  This ranges from preparing planning applications and appeals, drafting planning and highway agreements, advocacy at local development framework inquiries, appeal hearings and inquiries, appearing in the Magistrates’ Court to High Court litigation (including judicial review), advising on enforcement issues and on all matters involving listed buildings and Conservation Areas.  We also deal with compulsory purchase procedure and compensation.

The Planning team, described in Chambers UK: A Client’s Guide to the Legal Professional Directory 2007 as ‘flourishing’ and headed by Guthrie McGruer, acts for developers, landowners, local authorities and third party objectors.  It has experienced planning lawyers who have worked in various local authorities and have an in-depth working knowledge of the planning system in England and Wales.