Chambers Review
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Planning - Yorkshire
Individual Editorial
Alec Cropper frequently acts for developers, land promoters and local authorities. He has notable experience drafting both planning and highways agreements, and has previously successfully appeared in both the High Court and the Court of Appeal.
Strengths
Alec always provides a service to the highest standards and is extremely responsive to clients' requirements.
Alec is really great - approachable and professional. He is definitely a breath of fresh air for the firm. He brings pragmatism.
Alec has always provided sound legal advice when progressing Section 106 agreements, especially on the complex issues that we need to deal with on the larger schemes.
Alex is quite comfortable with a range of planning issues. He has a very good sense of perspective and judgement. When we dealt with complicated evidence, he got to the heart of it quickly.
Alec is great: he can pick up the phone and run through things simply, and is really good at explaining the whole planning process and anything that really might affect our projects.