Jamie Childs > Howes Percival LLP > Norwich, England > Lawyer Profile

The planning team at Howes Percival LLP acts for a diverse client base that includes London-based residents’ groups, registered charities and owner-managed bars and restaurants. Planning partner Jamie Childs in Norwich is the key contact. He has particular experience in advising developers, owners and operators of licensed premises on applications for new or varied premises licenses. The firm also handles advocacy work at licensing authority sub-committee meetings where objections have been made to premises licence applications.

Howes Percival LLP‘s education, health, social housing and government group brings together experts in corporate, employment, insolvency, property, construction, commercial contracts and data protection. It is ‘knowledgeable, well run and proactive‘, according to clients. Land development partner Michaela Henson in Cambridge and insolvency expert Morris Peacock in Norwich oversee the practice, which includes Norwich-based corporate partner Oliver Pritchard. Peacock acted for the The Insolvency Service/Secretary of State for Business, Energy And Industrial Strategy in potential director disqualification proceedings arising out of the failure of Bell Pottinger LLP. Emerging partner talent Nicola Curle in Norwich is a key adviser on surplus land disposals, enabling developments and student accommodation projects. Planning specialist Jamie Childs provides ‘timely and usually very swift responses‘.

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.