About Plan It Law
Contact
Email us: plan-it-law@mills-reeve.com
Website: http://www.mills-reeve.com
Biography
Plan-it Law is a blog written by planning lawyers.
We write about the latest news in planning and cover legal and policy updates together with issues that crop up on matters that we are working on from time to time.
We are members of Mills & Reeve’s Planning Law Team, based in Cambridge, England. Mills & Reeve is one of the UK’s leading law firms, with offices in London, Cambridge, Norwich, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. Please visit our website for more details.
Mills & Reeve’s Planning Law Team is a leading advisor on a wide range of planning issues. We routinely advise local authorities, landowners and developers on matters such as applications, appeals, s106 agreements, enforcement matters, planning histories and High Court challenges. We have advised on many large scale developments including regeneration projects, new settlements and minerals permissions.
Here is the team behind Plan-it Law.
David Brock
David leads the team and has over 25 years experience in planning. He’s been traipsing round building sites since he was a toddler and still likes getting his boots muddy. These days he advises on developments such as urban extensions, quarries and infrastructure, for developers, landowners, planning authorities and objectors. He’s chair of the Law Society’s Planning & Environment Law Committee and a member of the Planning Panel.. In his spare (?) time he’s a Churchwarden of his local church and cycles up mountain passes.
Beverley Firth
Beverley is a partner in the team and also has over 25 years experience in planning (although looks much younger than that!). She began her career in local government where she advised a number of different committees before settling on planning. Beverley still advises local planning authorities, but also acts for developers and landowners. Most of her work is in urban extensions, residential development, education and health developments but she also has a good deal of experience dealing with airfield/aerodrome planning. To the extent Beverley has any spare time it is usually devoted to family and travelling. Those of you who know her will recognise her hobby of visiting retail developments – for professional reasons of course.
Rebecca Carriage
Rebecca is an Associate in the team and has been dealing with environmental and health & safety as well as planning cases for 15 years. Her particular interest is waste permitting and planning and she is often in the Magistrates’ Court on environmental prosecutions – for both alleged polluters and regulators (although not at the same time).
Caroline Bywater
Caroline joined the Planning Team in 2005 and has been a planning lawyer since 2003.
Caroline acts for a range of clients including local authorities, landowners and developers. She advises on a wide range of planning matters such as the submission of applications (for EIA development or otherwise), the conduct of appeals and High Court challenges, enforcement issues and section 106 agreements. Caroline also works with real estate colleagues to provide due diligence on the planning aspects of land transactions.
Katy Carson
Katy qualified into the planning and environment team in September 2010. Katy's work covers the full remit of planning and environmental issues including drafting and negotiating planning agreements, due diligence in land transactions and advising clients seeking to obtain certificates of lawful use or development.
Christine de Ferrars Green
Christine is an invited guest of the Plan-It Law team - she is a partner in one of the firm's four real estate teams (although she has been quoted in Planning as a planning partner). A development lawyer with more than 20 years' experience of commercial property projects and a specialism in delivering mixed use schemes for anything between 5 and 5,000+ dwellings, she acts for landowners, promoters, developers and end users. Inevitably this means she has a keen interest in all matters planning-related, from every perspective.
