A HARPENDEN law firm is forming an alliance with another practice to offer a specialist service to housing associations to rival the largest firms in the country.
Perrins, based in Station Road, together with Peterborough firm Buckles, launches the "BP Alliance", today, and boasts it will have the legal firepower to defeat "nimbyism" and help tackle the serious housing shortage in the East of England region.
Fred Perrin, the Harpenden firm's managing partner, said: "Housing Associations in the East of England face real obstacles from a planning system that encourages nimbyism.
"The BP Alliance will be able to provide unrivalled advice to housing associations as they try to ensure that legal obstacles do not get in their way when they are carrying out the vital work of developing more affordable homes.”
The firms warn potential clients that new legislation is set to make developments more difficult by giving local people and councils extra powers to veto social housing projects.
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