London—Dentons is pleased to announce that the Firm has been named one of the top-5 highest rated law firms in Planning Magazine's 2017 Planning Law Survey. The Firm's UK Planning team was ranked fourth overall, rising one place from fifth position in 2016. In addition to the Firm's ranking, UK Planning partners Stephen Ashworth and Roy Pinnock were ranked joint eighth place in the individual solicitors rankings.

Dentons is one of only two firms to be have been ranked in the top ten every single year since the Planning Law Survey began. Now in its twentieth year, the survey reveals which law firms and individual solicitors are most highly rated by their clients. 

The Planning team is currently advising a group of north Essex councils on plans for a series of garden communities, Sainsbury's on mixed-use schemes in Whitechapel and Ilford in London, and Lands Improvement Holdings and Gallagher on mixed-use regeneration plans for the former Poole Power Station.

In 2016 the Planning team was named 'Planning Law Firm of the Year' at the Planning and Placemaking Awards. The team was recognised for its work advising both public and private sector clients on a number of significant planning and regeneration projects that will transform the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London.

Dentons' Planning team is part of the Firm's wider Real Estate practice, which advises lenders, investors, developers, landlords and tenants, buyers and sellers across all aspects of the real estate sector. The UK Planning team includes nine dedicated planning and public lawyers, including specialists in public procurement, state aid and six environmental law specialists. The team acts for a broad range of clients affected by planning and property decisions – developers, investors, tenants, local government, central government, parish councils and representative bodies. 

Click here to see the full Planning Law Survey on Planning Magazine's website (pay wall). 

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