Beverley Firth

Beverley Firth is a partner at national law firm Mills & Reeve.

She says: "I’m a specialist in the constantly moving target known as town and country planning. I lead our planning and environmental law team and my work includes helping clients, such as developers, local authorities and landowners/occupiers, navigate their way around planning law, policy and practice.

"As part of one of the UK’s best regarded planning teams, I advise on legal risks in planning applications, planning appeals and legal challenges and I negotiate section 106 agreements.

"I also advise on issues like community infrastructure levy, the National Planning Policy Framework, neighbourhood planning, enterprise zones, tax increment financing and the role of local enterprise partnerships.

"Much of our work links into infrastructure delivery and property development because of the important role that planning plays in economic growth."