Howard Kennedy LLP

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

• ‘A very good planning team under the headship of Jade Chalmers. Excellent and clearly close relationship between a property private client base and the planning division, therefore offering a multi-disciplinary approach. The planning team has grown under Jade Chalmers and is a young, hardworking outfit.’

• ‘Jade Chalmers heads up the planning team. She is brilliant with clients, astute and hard-working. An absolute pleasure to work with.’

• ‘A great team who are great collaborators. It is always at the forefront of the most interesting cases, highly responsive and dilligent in what it does. It is led by a true leader in Jade Chalmers, with a great crop of talent alongside her.’

• ‘Jade Chalmers is just an absolute star. She is always great with handling clients, ensuring that cases are managed well, and only the best arguments pursued.’

• ‘The entire team was involved at each stage, including the head of planning and partners down to juniors and trainees.’

• ‘Friendly and a pleasure to work with. In particular, Jade Chalmers and Caitlin Spence were just a joy to work with, extremely knowledgeable and always on hand to assist.’

• 'We have always found the level of research and understanding of the complex planning system and legal complexity to be up there with the best. A recent complex agreement has involved the team in extensive dissection of a complex masterplan arrangement. It was reassuring to know that we had our backs covered on this.'

• 'Jade Chalmers leads on the planning support for our business and has demonstrated on many occasions her in-depth knowledge of the complex planning system that we operate. She leads a team that is tenacious in its review of documents yet clear in its reporting and advice, something that is critical to enable quick decisions to be made.'

Key clients

Work highlights

Lawyers

Next Generation Partners

Jade Chalmers

Howard Kennedy LLP

Jade Chalmers is a solicitor specialising in all planning matters for a wide range of residential and commercial property developers, leading house builders, property companies, investment funds, and high-net-worth individuals. Jade advises on complex s.106 agreements, planning applications, the Community Infrastructure Levy regulations, highway agreements, planning appeals, listed buildings and conservation areas. She also advises on the planning and environmental aspects of major property and corporate transactions.